January 2012
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“The result of all this free and far-below-minimum-wage professional work is...”
– Academic publishers have become the enemies of science | Dr Mike Taylor | Science | guardian.co.uk (via slantback)
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“Does the teacher say, ‘Who’s having a fantastic struggle? Show me your...”
– In schools, self-esteem boosting is losing favor to rigor, finer-tuned praise - The Washington Post (via slantback)
“The reasons brainstorming fails are instructive for other forms of group work,...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink (via NYTimes)
Prosecutors turn to dogs to put crime victims at... →
“I think animals are just good for the soul,”
Dogs.
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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Christopher McCandless (via thegrandarchives)
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“Our overwhelming power and wealth, earned under earlier generations of leaders,...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz (via wehr)
“So what I saw around me were great kids who had been trained to be world-class hoop jumpers. Any goal you set them, they could achieve. Any test you gave them, they could pass with flying colors. They were, as...
I know I’m late to the party, but Downton Abbey is the greatest.
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“In this democracy we take the things we like about a candidate, weigh them...”
– Savorism (via Ta-Nehisi Coates)
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popsong89:
“January Hymn” -The Decemberists
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“I used to have students who bragged to me about how fast they wrote their...”
– The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz (via slantback)
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“Hashtags at their best stand in as what linguists call “paralanguage,” like...”
– How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (via slantback)
December 2011
22 posts
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“Texting while driving is, in essence, a wake-up call to America. It illustrates...”
– Driving has lost its cool for young Americans | Grist (via slantback)
“Operations like the Greek swap/short index maneuver were easy money for banks...”
– A Christmas Message From America’s Rich | | Rolling Stone
That last sentence nails it. The social contract is broken.
(via ronmarks)
“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– Miranda July, interviewed by the Guardian (via jackrusher)
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A year full of the highest highs (and some admittedly terrible lows), but one of the things that warms my heart most is seeing my dog sleep peacefully for the first time in 5 days after dislocating his hip. Tiny moments, best memories.
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marmite:
The War On Drugs - I Was There
Wow....
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popsong89:
“Foregone” -The Decemberists
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popsong89:
“Rock Lobster” -The B-52’s
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“Ultimately, I came to understand that I could achieve far more if I worked...”
– Ruth Simmons of Brown University, on Amiable Leadership (via ub14)
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“If you want reliable, clear communications (in love or networking), there are a...”
– Making things talk - Tom Igoe - Google Books (via slantback)
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“That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up...”
– Woody Allen on directing actors, from Woody Allen: A Documentary
Via meaghano.
Still haven’t seen it, but I think this applies to hiring for all kinds of projects.
(via ub14)
So what do you do when you hire less-than-great people?
November 2011
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