Patrick Morris

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Not equal to

body worker ≠ sex worker
discomfort ≠ pain
i like you a lot ≠ i love you
vice-president ≠ president
99% ≠ 100%
friendly ≠...

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New Technology Inspires a Rethinking of Light

Felicity Barringer:

In the United States, lighting consumes more than 20 percent of electric power...

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“Our boys joined diy.org 8-9 months ago. I had no clue what an incredible journey they were about to embark on! They have handled these meetings with...”

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Benefit Corporation: Facilitating a New Market

As longtime readers of Continuations know, I have been a strong proponent of the Benefit Corporation. I am therefore thrilled that Delaware, which is the home to almost all venture backed corporations, has

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“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who...”

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Who I Follow

2008 produced some of my favorite music and sounds. Great stuff from Cut Copy, Hot Chip, m83, Titus Andronicus, Fleet Foxes, etc.

Some of the craziest stuff I’ve ever seen

Great new video from The National

How I Became a Hipster →

“Brooklyn” is now a byword for cool from Paris to Sweden to the Middle East, so the author, an avowed Manhattanite, set out to explore this artisan-loving borough.

Some great quotes:

“ I picked up a pair of argyle wool socks from a nearby wicker basket and asked, “Are your socks local?” The salesman self-consciously said no.”

“You can meet it with befuddlement, perhaps wondering how flappers handled the thorny intersection between dancing in fountains and limited dry-cleaning.”

“Additionally: whatever affinity marketer is responsible for the high incidence of tippy, thin-wheeled racing bikes on the city’s most hole-filled roads should be shot at dawn.”

“but I’d much rather have a young Abe Lincoln serve me his roof-grown mâche than I would have an F. Scott Fitzgerald vomit all over my straw boater.”

Digging this remix of St. Lucia

Spent the last day of the ski season with my dad at Magic Mountain in Vermont. One of my favorite places. Enjoy!

Long Island Sound (at On a Boat in Long Island Sound)

Join us tonight for a Cleanweb NYC Meetup featuring Andy Frank of Sealed Homes, and going over the project briefs for the NYC BigApps Competition.

http://www.meetup.com/Cleanweb-NYC/events/108168892/

As I write this, our recent stock performance has been positive, but we constantly remind ourselves of an important point – as I frequently quote famed investor Benjamin Graham in our employee all-hands meetings – “In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” We don’t celebrate a 10% increase in the stock price like we celebrate excellent customer experience. We aren’t 10% smarter when that happens and conversely aren’t 10% dumber when the stock goes the other way. We want to be weighed, and we’re always working to build a heavier company.

Jeff Bezos, in his letter to shareholders. (via parislemon)

Well said

Great to see the partnership between charity:water + Soma