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"In the absence of network-native governance, you get network-native warlords" is :gem: @gordonbrander

I made a thing github.com/stefanom/fably

The Economist is not a bunch of hippies. If they're worried, there's probably a serious problem here. econ.st/11yAkhL

If you make a vague, non-time-sensitive prediction of something that's certain to happen eventually, I dub you a "Nostradumbass".

New blog post: "Surviving being senior (tech) management" laughingmeme.org/2013/07/16/sur…

A great overview of insourcing bit.ly/1brmYau "manufacturing is not incidental" via MonkeyLectric

Astonishingly smart take on WikiLeaks, Snowden, NSA, etc by Madame Polly Crisis (well,we knew he was that smart.) medium.com/geek-empire-1/…

When the Levee Breaks: Without Bots, What Happens to Wikipedia’s Quality Control Processes? by Stuart Geiger & Aaron Halfaker opensym.org/wsos2013/proce…

OpenRefine 2.6 beta kits are available - please help us test! (ex- Google Refine) #grefine OpenRefine groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/…

Innovation is a recognition problem. Thought provoking. blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/inn…

OH "Once you get into parenthood, you quickly realize your job is to expose your kids to risk in a way that balances risk with the benefit."

"There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrup

" Failure to look for what is missing is a common shortcoming." youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/sur… Great piece about survivorship bias. Love the history

No really, if you are a techie, you must read this: usenix.org/system/files/1… -- no quote can do it justice. A geek comedy tour de force.

The problem with electing people who don't believe in government is that they feel no obligation to do a good job of governing.

'The joys of a well-turned tweet' -Ben Harris-Roxas: The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter [Globe & Mail] buff.ly/18vcYME

Indeed, my account was hacked... weird because I didn't use it for a while. I hate passwords.

Yesterday was my 5-years anniversary of employment at Google. Never worked this long anywhere else. Who would have thought.

Thank you :-) x.com/rbowen/status/…