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I think a lot of people wake up every day striving for perfection – the perfect job, the perfect spouse, the perfect home, the perfect body, the perfect day. But what do we mean by that? What is perfection? When we talk about perfection, the common ground we generally have is to think of a …

I think this is one of my favorite things ever: But what I didn’t realize is that there are so many of these on Youtube! (via David Maddox)

After reading Atul Gawande’s essay in the New Yorker, I’m convinced that solitary confinement is cruel and unusual. It wrecks the psyche of many prisoners and leaves them unfit to ever fully reintegrate with society: One of the paradoxes of solitary confinement is that, as starved as people become for companionship, the experience typically leaves …

“The bill under consideration is 5-1/2 pages long,” he said. “I believe even the gentleman from Texas could have read it by now, and if the gentleman from Texas has not been able to read this 5-1/2-page bill, I will talk long. Even if you read slow, you’ll get it done.”

Very cool ABCNews segment on how Netflix works. I love seeing innovative companies and learning how they develop and refine ideas. (Be warned, the music is way cheesy.) (via Hacking Netflix)