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Links: 6-8-2011

Make No Little Plans
Quote: "Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big."
(categories: advice inspiration quotes culture )

Tweetage Wasteland : I Don’t Care if You Read This Article
Quote: "… the proudest achievements in life just can’t be measured."
(categories: culture internet life values )
second verse. tumbling.
Great list of questions to run through if you’re considering joining a startup. Maybe the most important one though: will I enjoy spending 75% of my time with these people for the next n years?
(categories: culture values startups )
Taste for Makers
Quote: "…Dangerous territory, that; if anything you should cultivate dissatisfaction. In Leonardo’s drawings there are often five or six attempts to get a line right. The distinctive back of the Porsche 911 only appeared in the redesign of an awkward prototype. In Wright’s early plans for the Guggenheim, the right half was a ziggurat; he inverted it to get the present shape. Mistakes are natural. Instead of treating them as disasters, make them easy to acknowledge and easy to fix. Leonardo more or less invented the sketch, as a way to make drawing bear a greater weight of exploration. Open-source software has fewer bugs because it admits the possibility of bugs."
(categories: programming design culture creativity )

mnot’s blog: On HTTP Load Testing
Some good stuff on performance testing.
(categories: http performance testing )

Mark Pincus – Every Worker Should Be C.E.O. of Something – NYTimes.com
Quote: "You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they’re all pointed in the right direction. By 150, it’s clear that that’s not going to scale, and you’ve got to find some way to keep everybody going in productive directions when you’re not in the room."
(categories: business entrepreneurship leadership management culture )
The Opulence Bubble – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
Quote: "This nation of tanned, toned, comatose vegetables is choosing to cash in its chips and spend them on the VIP Cabana at the pool, where they can be fed $10 soy-chai-mocha-lattes by legions of McVassals — instead of forging the path towards a better tomorrow."
(categories: culture life economics )

Why LinkedIn Hackdays Work « Psychohistory
Great blog post from Adam Nash on hackdays at linkedin.
(categories: hackathon engineering culture innovation ideas )
Why don’t more people live in liveable cities?
Quote: "If everybody is where they want to be, no one is going anywhere."
(categories: culture cities life )

Misery | drupal.org
Awesome drupal extension that makes life miserable for trolls.
(categories: community drupal moderation trolls )
John Maeda Mulls RISD’s Backlash Against His Cyber-Style Leadership | Co.Design
Quote: "People don’t want more messages; they want more interactions. There’s no perfect memo where you can press send and get connected, or Facebook group you can join to be committed."
(categories: culture leadership social socialsoftware management )