Archive for September 2009

Judging ideas, not people

In journalism & media, philosophy on 27 September 2009 with View Comments

There seems to be a consistent problem with portraying Ayn Rand and virtually all prominent thinkers in the political and philosophical sphere. Their ideas increasingly get judged by who adopts them and what those adopters do with it instead of judging the idea purely at face value and independently of its adoption.
I think it’s just [...]

The illusion of progress

In business on 10 September 2009 with View Comments

Remember the days when people found out about proposing via those huge stadium scoreboards and it was all the rage? Now there’s someone who used his iPhone and some web app to propose to his girlfriend. Same story, different time, right?
The future husband is understandably upbeat about it:
The moral of the story? Apps don’t only [...]