{"id":3410,"date":"2016-02-28T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3410"},"modified":"2016-02-28T16:20:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T15:20:40","slug":"mixed-messages-28-february-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/02\/28\/mixed-messages-28-february-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Messages, 28 February 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These browser tabs won&#8217;t close themselves, you know.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/opinions\/why-i-never-want-to-dress-up-in-black-tie-again\">Why I never want to dress up in black tie again<\/a> I haven&#8217;t worn a suit to work since 2006. I never intend to again.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/research-things\/on-surveys-5a73dda5e9a0#.fkxf499dk\">Erika Hall on Surveys<\/a> &#8220;In tort law the attractive nuisance doctrine refers to a hazardous object likely to attract those who are unable to appreciate the risk posed by the object. In the world of design research, surveys can be just such a nuisance.&#8221; Or, you know, A\/B testing. I&#8217;ll stop there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2015\/08\/do-what-you-love-work-myth-culture\/399599\/\">Why \u2018Do What You Love\u2019 Is Pernicious Advice<\/a>. Also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2014\/01\/in-the-name-of-love\/\">In the Name of Love<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3056057\/most-innovative-companies\/how-buzzfeeds-jonah-peretti-is-building-a-100-year-media-company\">How BuzzFeed&#8217;s Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company<\/a>. These probably aren&#8217;t the three things that FastCompany wanted me to take away from this article, but you do you, and me do me, or something:\n<ul>\n<li>Jonah Peretti is Chelsea Peretti&#8217;s older brother. Huh. Makes me want to go and watch some <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn_Nine-Nine\"><i>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Given time travel, Jonah Peretti should totally be played by William Fichtner in the movie of his life. Huh. Makes me want to go and watch <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grace_Under_Fire\"><i>Grace Under Fire<\/i><\/a>, which is where I first saw him.<\/li>\n<li>So <em>this<\/em> is what Ze Frank is up to now. Huh. Makes me want to go back and watch some episodes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/theshow\/\"><i>The Show<\/i><\/a> again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/hunger-is-psychological-and-dieting-only-makes-it-worse\">&#8220;The hunger mood&#8221;<\/a> by Michael Graziano. It took me the best part of a year to get over craving bread and chocolate. (Not necessarily together.) I&#8217;m still working on the rest.<\/li>\n<li>Dave Winer: <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.com\/liveblog\/users\/davewiner\/2016\/01\/20\/0900.html\">Anywhere But Medium<\/a>. The more interesting the post is that I read on <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/\">Medium<\/a>, the sadder I feel that the writer doesn&#8217;t choose to publish it on their own blog or site. I understand why they do it. I&#8217;m just disappointed that the open web has failed to provide a decentralized solution with at least an equivalent experience.<\/li>\n<li>Oh look another post on Medium: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@joaomilho\/festina-lente-e29070811b84#.az7qtg4gz\">Technical Debt 101<\/a><\/li>\n<li>NY Times Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/magazine\/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html?_r=0\">What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team<\/a>. I need to read this a few times and take some lessons from it.<\/li>\n<li>Sean Bonner&#8217;s email newsletter #229: <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyletter.com\/seanbonner\/letters\/the-crowd-is-dying-everyone-of-us-229\">The Crowd Is Dying. Everyone of us.<\/a> This stuff is on my mind as well.<\/li>\n<li>Via a later Sean Bonner newsletter: <a href=\"http:\/\/metalalbumswithgooglyeyes.tumblr.com\/\">Metal Albums with Googly Eyes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/cat-owners-japan-totoro-trend\/\">Turning your cat into Totoro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short film <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/147365861\"><i>Uncanny Valley<\/i><\/a> on Vimeo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNCANNY VALLEY\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/147365861?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"219\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bill Wurtz&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o\">History of Japan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"history of japan\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mh5LY4Mz15o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Every Frame a Painting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5UE3jz_O_EM\">Joel &#038; Ethan Coen &#8211; Shot | Reverse Shot<\/a>. I love this series.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joel &amp; Ethan Coen - Shot | Reverse Shot\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5UE3jz_O_EM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These browser tabs won&#8217;t close themselves, you know. Why I never want to dress up in black tie again I haven&#8217;t worn a suit to work since 2006. I never intend to again. Erika Hall on Surveys &#8220;In tort law the attractive nuisance doctrine refers to a hazardous object likely to attract those who are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/02\/28\/mixed-messages-28-february-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mixed Messages, 28 February 2016&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3410"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3417,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3410\/revisions\/3417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}