The industrial skyline really works in this photo.
Stop Your Search Engines
I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, surf a little further, we can hit the dry land of knowing “everything that happens” and that such knowledge is both possible and desirable. In the end, though, there is just more sea, and as alluring as we can find the perpetual pursuit of little thoughts, the net result may only be to prevent us from forming the big ones.
(via Popwuping)
From BoingBoing’s review of Critter Crunch. The screenshots look amazing.
Zhangyuzhuan village by the Hong River in Xiping county, Henan province, (河南省西平县洪河边的张于庄村) 22-year-old Zhu Xiaoyan (朱小燕) had a tumor in her stomach in 2007. She died after a number of hospital treatments on July 2008. 4-year-old girl with her grandfather came to mother’s tomb. April 2009 2
This photo, from a series on pollution in China, is the saddest of them all. Nothing is as real until you see the people that it directly impacts.
Elliot Brood - Write It All Down
What Startups Are Really Like
Interesting advice, even for non-startups:
I learnt never to bet on any one feature or deal or anything to bring you success. It is never a single thing. Everything is just incremental and you just have to keep doing lots of those things until you strike something.
The 4 ways sound affects us from Julian Treasure, with this interesting fact: Productivity goes down by 66% in an open-plan office.
