small shop / big solutions: django and long-term thinking

Saturday, September 14, 13

Small Shop, Big SolutionsDjango and Long-Term Thinking

by Ben Keatingfor DjangoCon Chicago 02013

@flowpoke


The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.


The Clock The Library The Long Now

Danny Hillis Stewart Brand Brian Eno


Humanized: EnsoSaturday, September 14, 13

Guidelines for a long-lived, long-valuable institution:

• Serve the long view• Foster Responsibility• Reward patience• Mind mythic depth• Ally with competition• Take no sides• Leverage longevity


Playing with Time


You are a designer.You design your code.


Long Bets URL structure

• Prediction: http://longbets.org/362/

• User Profile: http://longbets.org/user/buffett/

• Flatpages: http://longbets.org/about/


http://longbets.org

http://longbets.org

http://longbets.org/user/buffett/

http://longbets.org/user/buffett/

http://longbets.org/about/

http://longbets.org/about/

the diary file


nvALT


Drafts.app (iOS)


It Just Works™

ttm = ™


sse = cd /etc/.../sites-enabled

TextExpander will save you time and make you awesome.


This present moment used to be the unimaginable future.

—Stewart Brand


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