Flow is a state in which your mind is so completely focused on a task that your external awareness of the world is essentially shut off. This is the optimal state for “getting stuff done”. But, as I suspect most creatives already know, it’s not the optimal state for coming up with new ideas. That state is the opposite one – one in which the mind is *unfocused* and idle (not unfocused because it’s too busy jumping around). The key to being an innovative individual, one who can both create and do, is having very fine control over your focus – knowing how to cultivate both creative and flow states at need.

http://io9.com/5933423/the-right-way-and-wrong-way-to-let-your-mind-wander

If you run into a problem with sending encrypted email via the Motorola Droid Bionic, you are probably running into an issue with Motorola’s replacement for the default mail app: it does not support STARTTLS, only SSL/TLS connections which are encrypted from the beginning. The solution if you own the server is to enable an additional port in master.cf with the smtpd_tls_wrappermode option set.

Or grab K-9 mail.

We need Nickelodeon-style political debates: every time the politicians say something fallacious or logically inconsistent, they get slimed.

Note that people are still referring to “The Recession” to push their agendas. This recession began in 2008. If it is still ongoing, it is more accurately a depression. At some point people will need to accept the fact that we are in one.

The efficient market hypothesis.

When opening a business bank account for a new business, I was asked “what is the organization’s date of birth?” Silly, I thought, they mean the date of incorporation. But the more I began to think about it, the more I realized that starting a new organization has a lot in common with parenthood. You watch it transition from something totally dependent on you to an independent self-sustaining “mature” corporation, but only after giving it much love in the form of time, money, and attention. You celebrate similar milestones – first word or first transaction, acquiring the ability to walk or the ability to profit, moving to an office vs. moving out, and eventually, that moment when you realize you have succeeded and the organization has become a totally separate entity from you as a person – still strongly associated, but no longer dependent.

If you move at roughly constant acceleration and you look through something reflective at a moving background, you will feel like you’re moving opposite to your actual direction of motion.

Edge cities tend to spring up radially around larger population centers, leading to population distributions that tend to be proportional to the population in the host city and inversely proportional to the distance from it.