January 2011
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“You win the pitch with safe, crappy work, the client wants safe, crappy work. If...”
– There’s more to pitching than doing killer work
On the state of our times
“Occasionally, you meet a young, rising member of this class at the gelato store, as he hovers indecisively over the cloudberry and ginger-pomegranate selections, and you notice that his superhuman equilibrium is marred by an anxiety. Many members of this class, like many Americans generally, have a vague sense that their lives have been distorted by a giant cultural bias. They live in...
win and tonic: With shows like V or The Event,... →
With shows like V or The Event, it’s different. The serialized storytelling means the awfulness creeps up on you. The first and second episodes might not seem completely satisfying, but maybe that’s just because the mythology is still kicking in. The expectation that a show needs multiple…
“To live in what has been characterized both as “the age of...”
– Short Cuts
“I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work and for my work too,...”
– Rebecca Solnit, from the opening pages of Wanderlust: A History of Walking. via andyinabox, emilyqualey: Reminds me of Thoreau: “I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over...