summer

“You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the days are getting shorter, and you can’t put things off thinking you’ll get to them someday. If you really want to do them, you better do them. There are simply too many people getting sick, and sooner or later you will. So I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.”
Nora Ephron
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Novelist

"I told Sheryl, 'I don't know how to grow the company,' and she gave me advice." Like? "She said, 'Only start programs that will scale."'

"keep your head down and do as many of the right things as possible."

about tina fey

It’s all the more satisfying, then, that she has become not just a swan (whose cheekbones were, as she puts it, discovered “by a team of gay excavators”) but a swan who created, produces and stars in her own show. Sure, she appears on magazine covers, but how awesome is it that her appearance on, say, the front of Vogue is a byproduct of her success rather than the pinnacle of it?

Routinely, she works 14-hour days at “30 Rock,” after which the writers follow her home to her apartment to keep working into the wee hours.

During a single weekend in September 2008, Ms. Fey spent all day Saturday shooting the episode of “30 Rock” with Oprah; following the shoot, Ms. Fey went directly to the “S.N.L.” studio for that night’s show, in which she played Sarah Palin for the first time; and on Sunday, Ms. Fey hosted her daughter’s third birthday party.

the Oprah episode of “30 Rock” was really funny. That episode is also, as I learned in “Bossypants,” an illustration of the pitfalls of seeing the world only through the lens of gender, even for those of us who regularly enjoy working ourselves into a self-righteous feminist lather.

when to have children

The most striking findings revolved around parenthood and age.

Parents under 30 are decidedly less happy than their child-free peers. Then, once parents hit 40, the relationship reverses and people with children are cheerier than those without.

(Whether it is a function of exhaustion, bickering over diapers or something inherently unpleasant about raising little children, the data doesn’t say.)

The more, the merrier, too — at least for older parents. For people under 30, happiness declines with each additional child. Young parents of two are unhappier than young parents with one, and young parents of one child are unhappier than young people with no children. But with parents between the ages of 40 and 50, the number of children has no impact. And after 50, each child brings more joy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/fashion/10Studied.html?ref=fashion

teardown

photos of hacking everyday electronics

The #1 group on Meetup right now?
most chapters in most cities with most members, most active?

STAY AT HOME MOMS.
They are missing infrastructure so they are reinventing it using these tools.

If you want to know what technology is going to change the world, don't pay attention to 13-year-old boys, pay attention to young mothers because have got not an ounce of support for technology that doesn't materially make their lives better. [Meetup] is so much more important than X Box but its a lot less glitzy.

-clay shirky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQViNNOAkw&feature=related

groups of women moving together

inside powerful women's bags

inside hillary clinton's travel bag
(clinton has travelled to 80 countries during her 15 months in office)

mineral water spray,
mini flashlight,
make-up,
lint rollers,
iPad & headphones,
a permanent marker,
air travel pillow,
international plug socket converters, so her BlackBerry can charge anywhere in the world,
emergency medical kit with basics like paracetamol and ibuprofen for headaches and bandages in case of cuts and scrapes,
mesh bags for organizing alcohol wipes

Chilli flakes because she loves spicy food

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1369922/Chilli-flakes-autographed-photos-mineral-water-spray-The-contents-Hillary-Clintons-handbag-revealed.html?ITO=1490