Amazon I loved this book. Someone described it accurately as “The Hunt For Red October” meets “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” A few of my highlighted quotes: A little rudder far from the rocks is a lot better than a lot of rudder close to the rocks  Provide people with the objective and let them figure out the method  What do we do on a day-to-day basis?

Amazon Lots of good, concise advice from Derek Sivers. Most of it resonated with me. The takeaway theme for me was “No effort was spent on anything but my customers”.  

David Weinberger on the Sitterwerk Art Library: That the shelves have no persistent order doesn’t mean they have no order. Rather, works are reshelved by users in the clusters the users have created for their research. All the items have RFID tags in them, and the shelves are automatically scanned so that the library can always tell users where items are located. As a result, if you look up a particular item, you will see it surrounded by works that some other user thought were related to it in some way.

That’s right, bought. I prefer owning things to renting, but I’ve been lazy and it’s been a while since I’ve bought anything digital. Here’s what I picked up today. La Chinga – “Freewheelin'" I’d have grabbed this one based on the album cover alone. Good time hard rock.  Baroness – “Purple” I enjoyed “Yellow and Green” and this one seems like more of the same.  The Dead Weather – “Dodge and Burn”

Craig Mod: Where will those explorations happen? I don’t know. But I do know that print has endured and continues to endure for good reason. Our relationships to our most meaningful books are long and textured. And until we can trust our digital reading platforms, until the value propositions of digital are made clearer, until the notes and data we produce within them is more accessible and malleable, physical books will remain at the core of our working libraries for a long time coming.

Scott Santens in The Boston Globe AMELIA IS many things. But she’ll never take a sick day, join a union, or waste time on Facebook on the job. Created by IPsoft over the past 16 years, the AI system learned how to perform the work of call center employees. She can learn in seconds what takes humans months to master, and she can do it in 20 languages. Because she’s able to learn, she’s able to do more over time.

9to5mac.com: Up until now, many of the available options for disabling animations relied on jailbreaking. But a new iOS glitch found by a redditor makes it possible to completely get rid of SpringBoard animations until you reboot your iPhone. Watch our step-by-step video walkthrough inside to see how. Works as advertised. Makes the phone feel faster.

Part of my bulletin board I love bulletin boards. Nothing is more versatile than a bulletin board with a hand full of push-pins. A bulletin board will hold mundane things like a self-referential index card. It will also hold the most precious things, like a photo of my dad next to the first car I remember him driving. And everything in between. All right there in front of me, all the time.

I found the following in a draft blog post from back in August: First, there was Quicksilver. Then, there was LaunchBar. Then there was Alfred. Then there was LaunchBar again. I’ve been using one launcher app or another for so long that it’s hard to use a computer without one. While learning about some of the fancy file manipulation features in LaunchBar, it occurred to me that, neat as they are, I never used any of those features.

I love Org Mode. After years of resistence due to my reliance upon Vim, I discovered Spacemacs and my switch to Emacs-based editing was off and running. Org Mode can do anything I’d ever need when it comes to writing, organizing, searching, and publishing documents of any kind. With its powerful Agenda it can manage my entire GTD process. Spacemacs makes using Emacs palatable for me, so everything should be hunky-dory.

I’d never heard of Delahaye before seeing this image. This model 175 from 1949 might be the coolest car ever made.  

MNN: When the album that is life finally reaches the end wouldn’t it be nice to keep that record spinning for eternity? Of course it seems silly. I love it.