Posts by Dann Berg | Dann Berg - Part 5
Where Do Ideas Come From?
I had a professor in college who, on the first day of class, told us to write step-by-step instructions detailing the process of thinking. I sat there for 15 minutes but couldn’t get past what I wrote as step one: Clear your mind. But I knew that even step one was incorrect; I don’t need […]
Bloomberg Ethics, Or Lack Thereof
Amy Chozick and Ben Protess for the New York Times: A shudder went through Wall Street on Friday after the revelation that Bloomberg News reporters had extracted subscribers’ private information through the company’s ubiquitous data terminals to break news. This is absolutely mind-boggling to me. This particularly struck me (emphasis mine): Bloomberg said the functions that allowed […]
New Study on Tylenol and Its Effect on Moral Judgement
James Hamblin, for The Atlantic: Among people who took the placebo pill, those who wrote about existential anxiety set much higher bail ($450) [for prostitution] than those who wrote about the dentist ($300). But if they took Tylenol and wrote existentially, that sense of moral judgement seemed to be blunted. There was a tiny sample […]
He Didn’t Immediately Issue A Takedown Notice?
Vivek Ramachandran’s code ended up in the movie/trailer for White House Down: How do I feel about this? Great..Also, the character in front of the computer seems quite excited (hands raised) as he is downloading / viewing / running my code 🙂 What could make a developer more happy than to see his code inciting such […]
8 Tips to Make the Most Out of Your Skillshare Class
Skillshare is one of my favorite startups to emerge from the recent innovation boom in the education field. Simply put, Skillshare is a platform that allows anyone to teach a class or take a class. After taking a couple of fantastic Skillshare classes, I decided to develop my own, based upon my experience getting two iPhone apps into […]
Magnet Implants Can Actually be Pretty Annoying
I recently got a comment on my post Body Hacking: My Magnet Implant that I wanted to share. It comes from a reader who is also named Dan: I know a lot of people really like these things and that’s cool but I thought it would be informative to have a dissenting view (as far […]