March 2010
33 posts
Office in motion →
What a Bidentastic idea.
bobulate:
Andy Polaine recently emailed, noting a work habit I wasn’t familiar with:
Some of my Swiss colleagues even take the train somewhere for a couple of hours just to use it as an office. They have lunch in their destination city and then come back again, work done. There’s an interesting aspect to this — they all have a General Abonnement, which is like a season...
Why I would make a great Pope:
Dress the same every day
Don’t listen to other people
Believe stupid paranormal bullshit
Look good in a hat
Aspire to supervillainy
if only I didn’t respect women, this would be a done deal.
In praise of nothingness →
Busy is fun, but you gotta take breaks to write.
bobulate:
Scott Berkun on “the cult of busy,” that by always seeming to have something to do, we assume you must be important or successful:
[P]eople who are always busy are time poor. They have a time shortage. They have time debt. They are either trying to do too much, or they aren’t doing what they’re doing very well. They are failing to...
He's not VICE-President.
He’s the Emergency President.
Brought to you by the committee to make things sound cooler.
dream with me a second
Of a world where Joe Biden hosts The Price is Right for a week.
I’d buy two TVs.
I love this.
mckelvie:
T. Roosevelt: The Square Deal F. Roosevelt: The New Deal H. Truman: The Fair Deal B. Obama: The Big Fucking Deal
…works for me.
-Jamais Cascio.
TO DO today:
+ 3-4 comics
+ finish packing for Emerald City Comicon
+ befriend insane billionaires
+ capture a ghost
“A bunch of bullshit movies won everything.”
– Evan’s summary of the Oscars (via zoya)
You May Already Be An Anarchist
stevencloud:
“It’s true. If your idea of healthy human relations is a dinner with friends, where everyone enjoys everyone else’s company, responsibilities are divided up voluntarily and informally, and no one gives orders or sells anything, then you are an anarchist, plain and simple. The only question that remains is how you can arrange for more of your interactions to resemble this model.”...