Weekend Reads
In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the over-abundance of information sources that might consume it.
— Herbert Simon
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
— Feynman
From time to time I circulate an old-school links blast of stuff that’s caught my eye. It’s not manicured: it’s “a magpie’s nest of flotsam and jetsam. Mostly jetsam.”