https://www.eliwhitney.org/7/museum/about-eli-whitney/factory QT:{{”
The role that Whitney played in early American technology has been debated, however. Whitney’s work in making muskets from a number of interchangeable parts once identified him as the sole originator of the idea. But tests on a collection of Whitney muskets indicate that all their parts were not interchangeable.
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Museum at
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Good quote:
“Schopenhauer,” he says, “argued that the higher your tolerance for noise, the lower your intelligence.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/nyregion/gentrification-one-percent-manhattan.html
liked particularly:
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3. Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, range, role, strategy, tendency,” and “variable.”
8. Old information at the beginning of the sentence, new information at the end.
10. Prose must cohere: readers must know how each sentence is related to the preceding one. If it’s not obvious, use “that is, for example, in general, on the other hand, nevertheless, as a result, because, nonetheless,” or “despite.”
12. Read it aloud.
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https://boingboing.net/2019/03/27/here-are-cognitive-scientist-s.html
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“As he grew in his profession, Six came to feel he had a right to express himself on the family collection. A series of clashes with his father ensued, many of them about providing greater public access, which has always been a difficulty. Currently, tours of the
collection, which are by appointment only, are booked into next year. The picture that the younger Six sketched was of an inward-looking father who is trying to preserve a legacy by keeping the world at bay, who comes to realize over time that he also has to do battle with a gregarious and extroverted son who feels that the way to preserve that legacy is precisely by sharing it with the wider world. The battles left the younger Six progressively more exasperated: “I would cycle home after and think, Jesus, Dad, I’m trying to help you.””
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Rembrandt in the Blood: An Obsessive Aristocrat, Rediscovered Paintings and an Art-World Feud
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/magazine/rembrandt-jan-six.html
Meet Ryan, the seven-year-old YouTuber who made £17.3m in a year
https://www.theGuardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2018/dec/04/meet-ryan-the-seven-year-old-youtuber-who-made-173m-in-a-year What will he make when he turns 20!
Meet Ryan, the seven-year-old YouTuber who made £17.3m in a year | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com
Name: Ryan. Age: Seven. Value: £17.3m. It’s wrong to hate a child, isn’t it? Yes! Of course it is. Especially if you hate them for having more money than you. Let’s end this line of inquiry …
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