These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• pry/​pry

  Pry is a pow­er­ful alter­na­tive to the stan­dard IRB shell for Ruby. It is writ­ten from scratch to pro­vide a num­ber of advanced fea­tures, including:
  
  irb ruby software-​​development inter­preter

• Daniel Fischer’s Blog — A Start­ing Guide to VIM from Textmate

  For about four years I’ve been using Text­mate almost every day. I’m very fast with it. I’ve always thought about switch­ing over to VIM or Emacs but I have been scared of los­ing my speed. In fact, I’ve actu­ally tried Emacs in the past and also wrote a blog post on my expe­ri­ence. I liked it in gen­eral, but I ended up com­ing back to Text­mate after a week. Why? I didn’t really feel like I was gain­ing anything.
  
  text­mate vim tuto­r­ial habit

• A Ques­tion Answered — Credit Slips

  “Over cof­fee this morn­ing with a friend, I threw out the same ques­tion from my orig­i­nal post. How does an orga­ni­za­tion get itself to the place where it col­lec­tively comes to think such strong-​​arm col­lec­tion tac­tics on hos­pi­tal patients are a good idea, let alone morally defen­si­ble? A pro­file of Accretive’s CEO, Mary Tolan, in Crain’s Chicago Busi­ness con­tains this gem: “My objec­tive is just to be a happy, con­fi­dent cap­i­tal­ist,” says the devo­tee of Ayn Rand’s and Mil­ton Friedman’s free-​​market gospel, which she applies with a com­bat­ive, survival-​​of-​​the fittest man­age­ment style.”
  
  ran­dism buh-​​bye-​​john-​​galt

• The Hum­ble Ori­gins of the NEXT Global Econ­omy. Don’t Miss Out.

  “It’s sim­ple.  If you want to build a thriv­ing local econ­omy.  A local econ­omy that makes your com­mu­nity resilient to eco­nomic fail­ure and shocks, you need to find ways to help the inno­va­tors in your com­mu­nity make things.”
  
  resilience sus­tain­abil­ity communities-​​of-​​practice mak­ers