February 2012
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Work only for people you like. A sense of commonality is essential. Without that, disaster.
– Milton Glaser, quoted over on Swiss-Miss.
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I think it’s far more important to write well than most people realize. Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated.
- Paul Graham (via lukescommonplacebook)
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Writing for Grantland, Tyler Cowen and Kevin Grier explored the hypothetical end to football as an American pastime and how such an event might unfold. The rise in head injuries are an obvious starting point, but like other cultural mainstays that have gone extinct, it mostly has to do with high risk and higher insurance premiums:
This slow death march could easily take 10 to 15 years. Imagine...
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Not sure how I missed this, but Tumblr is hiring writers and editors to cover itself:
“Basically, if Tumblr were a city of 42 million,” Ms. Bennett said, referring to the number of Tumblr blogs that exist, “I’m trying to figure out how we cover the ideas, themes and people who live in it.”
Journalists covering online communities – a novel idea.
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I guess I walked away with mixed feelings. It felt familiar, yet distant. I wanted more, but I didn’t. If it achieved anything, watching this film really put me in touch with that tug-of-war between becoming an adult and remaining a naïve kid who wants to sleep with his toy Millennium Falcon. It wasn’t that Lucas made a bad film, it was that he didn’t make me feel 10 years old...
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In the last few days, I have had to battle with the fear that everything is actually just random, that the universe is a howling void of meaningless chaos, indifferent to everything that I value. All hope has at times seemed unjustified to me.
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.
- John Perry Barlow, writing in his eulogy for Cynthia Horner. Their...
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