(NYT) Everyone’s Lives, in Pictures

(10-year-old) maps the interestingness of Avengers character

Information Overload Is Not a New Problem

The Fractal Dimension of ZIP Codes

(Essay)  http://om.co/2012/04/05/the-of-course-principle-of-design/of-course-principle-of-design/of-course-principle-of-design/

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/07/must-read-map-books/

Why Do We Care About Abstraction?

Selling your art at art shows

"The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have." - Via 
",,,simply acting for the sake of acting (otherwise known as creative destruction), and choosing churn over stability, is central to life." - Via
"Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down." - Ray Bradbury
"The good is the enemy of the great." - Norman Mailer, 'The Time of our Time'
"Life's magic is a lot like a swift flowing river; no matter how long you've overlooked it or unwittingly swam against it, the instant you stop struggling you're back in the flow." - TU