-Joi Ito, MIT Media Lab
When Mark Twain’s cat, Bambino, disappeared, the author posted the following lost cat flyer around the neighborhood:
Large and intensely black; thick, velvety fur; has a faint fringe of white hair across his chest; not easy to find in ordinary light.… and other literary pets
When someone creates something and puts it in front of you, that thing came from inside of them, and if you make them feel bad, it’s going to be hard to fix, because you’ve actually crushed them
Jenna Lyons, Chief Creative Director @ JCrew
You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
In Los Angeles people pray that, one day, they will be discovered. In New York City, people pray they never are.
Howard Jordan Jr., To Live and Try in LA
I want to fight against the tyrrany of good taste, which just goes to show the distance between good taste a and bad taste.
Patrick Li, The Creative Class
It’s insulting to women to say they need to become more like men to succeed.
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Don’t Hate Her Because She’s Successful
Our culture seems to have decided that kids are better off when they’re not alone with other kids
-Laura June, The Life and Death of the American Arcade
Does this strike anyone else as incredibly sad?
Source: theverge.com
I’m just a man hiding in the corner with a camera… watching.
Source: firstshowing.net
If everything is always high-stakes, you’re going to create an environment conducive to cheating.
- Eric Anderman, on Why Most Students Cheat
Does anyone see the correlation between this learned behavior and the Financial Debacle?
But Silicon Valley works because it is stupid. The intelligence is distributed, and the ultimate arbiter of correctness is the market.
David E. Weekly, Founder of Oha.na on Why Silicon Valley is Stupid
Source: gigaom.com
The truth is, most women spend the majority of their lives trying not to get pregnant. According to the Guttmacher Institute, by the time a woman with two children is in her mid-40s she will have spent only five years trying to become pregnant, being pregnant, and not being at risk for getting pregnant following a birth. But to avoid getting pregnant before or after those two births, she would had had to refrain from sex or use contraception for an average of 25 years. Almost all American women (99 percent), ages 15-44, who have had sexual intercourse use some form of birth control.
Jessica Valenti, Not Wanting Kids Is Entirely Normal
Most free speech today has nothing to do with governments and everything to do with companies
I like to blow shit up.” I am the Michael Bay of business.
I’ve read article after article about how organizations want creative people. But it appears to me that all companies want candidates from the same schools, with the same background, and the same experiences.
Sharon Kim, Can Outside Rejection Fuel Creative Thought?
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