Weekly Random: #56

Good Reading

• Group think versus solitude
• Tim O’ Reilly’s thoughts on government response to SOPA
• “If Congress and the White House really want to fight pirates who are hurting the economy, they should be working to rein in patent trolls. There, the evidence of economic harm is clear, in multi-billion dollar transfers of wealth from companies building real products to those who have learned how to work the patent system while producing no value for consumers.“

Good Video

• Motorcycle vs. Car Drift #2
• Holocene – Bon Iver

Misc

• Kickstarter’s year in review
• What do the 1% do for a living?
• Arfa Karim Randhawa
• Make room for baby

Technical

• Designer roles breakdown
• The Trello tech stack
• JavaScript Patterns & Antipatterns