The greatness of kindness
In the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy, or concentration, or commitment, or anything else, is kindness. And, the more in the world you encounter kindness, and cheerfulness — which is its kind of amiable uncle, or aunt — the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth… are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.
– Stephen Fry, What I Wish I’d Known When I was 18
Probably the most enjoyable and valuable 30 minutes I’ve spent in recent memory was watching this video.
STEPHEN FRY: WHAT I WISH I’D KNOWN WHEN I WAS 18 from Peter Samuelson on Vimeo.
Read MoreFamous Failures
This is worth watching, and remembering:
“If you’ve never failed, you’ve never lived.”
Read MoreAutomating email
This five minute video describes the most interesting new email-related idea I’ve seen in a few years. Hilary Mason, a computer science professor, has created some shell scripts (very simple software programs) that help her deal with some of the more common ways that dealing with email wastes her time.
On her site she says that she is working on making the scripts generic so that she can release them as open-source projects anyone can use.
I’d love to see smarts like these bundled into popular email clients and web mail products.
[ via Gina Trapani ]
Read MoreDolphin air rings
Did you know dolphins can blow air rings like people blow smoke rings, and using their noses can pull a large one apart and make it small again?
(via omgfactsofficial)
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