the anti-descartes

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Recommendations from our research include an easy-to-remember rule: “80 for 90” – you can listen at 80 percent of the maximum volume safely for 90 minutes per day.

Quote from NYT article by Cory Portnuff on the effect of portable music players.

— http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/8/18/how-dangerous-are-ipods-for-teenage-ears/turn-it-down

Crazy Rain in berlin.

Fun from the legal eagle who brought you “Godwin’s Law”

Mike Godwin’s response to the FBI’s takedown request made in connection with the FBI seal shown on Wikipedia.

Probably the best letter I’ve read in a long time. Pay particular attention to the signature.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20100803-wiki-LetterToLarson.pdf

pure awesomeness

Jobs “censorship dragon” v Schmidt “data kraken” via @fredohaitz

DMCA Exemptions

DMCA Copyright Exemptions

Its legal to:

unlock mobile phones to change carriers - inc. the Iphone
cracking video games’ digital rights management controls to probe security flaws
breaking DVD encryptions by professors, students and documentary makers so the clips can be used for education and commentary
let the blind circumvent locks on e-books to enable read-aloud feature
bypass broke or irreplaceable dongles

From:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/feds-ok-iphone-jailbreaking/

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Doug Bowman on Design at Google “ Without a person at (or near) the helm who thoroughly understands the principles and elements of Design, a company (Google) eventually runs out of reasons for design decisions. With every new design decision, critics cry foul. Without conviction, doubt creeps in. Instincts fail. “Is this the right move?” When a company is ﬁlled with engineers, it turns to engineering to solve problems. Reduce each decision to a simple logic problem. Remove all subjectivity and just look at the data. Data in your favor? Ok, launch it. Data shows negative eﬀects? Back to the drawing board. And that data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions. Metrics-Driven Design Daring. Decisive. Conviction.

— http://www.slideshare.net/bokardo/metricsdriven-design-4317168

Design Thinking and Biz Models, Presentation by VicVentures at CASS

Talk held by Sascha Kellert from Vic Ventures at City University, Cass Business School, as part of the BSc Management degree, on designing innovative business models and systems thinking.

Tags: business model design thinking systems thinking entrepreneur start up cass business school vicventures

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VC: “There are a million cloud storage startups!”

Drew: “Do you use any of them?”

VC: “No”

Drew: “…”

Drew Houston from Dropbox

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