February 2012
4 posts
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“We expect too much from January and not enough from February.”
– @mlarson (via austinkleon)
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Iron your collar. Get your robot-prepared instant... →
January 2012
36 posts
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“New York is such a good newspaper town… One of the reasons I’ve been successful...”
– NY1 morning anchor Pat Kiernan on curation tactics, getting up early, and calling it done. (via curiositycounts)
The816: My Mission Statement (Initial Drafts) →
the816:
Chris asks “What’s the worst that could happen?” And if the answer isn’t, “You’ll be eaten by bears” then he will do that thing.
Chris will provide effective business solutions that leverage consumer insights and then he will then eat some tacos and take a nap.
Chris is committed to the…
The Chronic Craftsterbator: Thirty-nine Questions... →
wizardspaw:
1. The Devil won that fiddling contest, right?
2. Because isn’t that totally amazing fiddle feedback thing the Devil plays (which sounds like Hendrix gone bluegrass) a hundred times better than that high-school-band piece-of-crap tune Johnny plays?
3. I mean, come on, right?
4. And since the…
What Baristas Think When You Place Your Order
eoporto:
You pretend you’re gluten-intolerant
This is why you’re broke
Your heart is going to explode in 5-7 years
Stop pretending you can’t remember it’s called a Tall, I see you everyday fuckface.
Do you realize that drink is comprised mostly of chemicals and fat would be healthier?
I would fuck you
Go fuck yourself
Totally going to pay for this in coins
Respectfully, you really...
thisistherules:
Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up
An excerpt from a letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter.
eoporto: I think a lot of people feel crappy right... →
I think a lot of people feel crappy right now. Creative types, mostly. Feels like we are all in the middle of a big, depressing, fuck off period of taking for granted that we’re all pretty sharp, and we’re all pretty talented at one thing or another, and we’re all able to convey our thoughts…
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Cozy Little Libraries
fuckyeahawesomehouses:
everything in the sky: I have been rebuilding a... →
everythinginthesky:
I have been rebuilding a life, see. Finding scraps of things - friends, hobbies, a job, a girl, clothing.
Some scraps need to be found. Some are earned. Some must be pooled together with your hands, like spilled tobacco on a table, and scooped gently into an envelope to be placed on a high shelf.
I wonder, sometimes, if I’m even really me now. If all these scraps are what...
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Beauty
But cycling here, at its best, is better than mere annoyance. It can give us, for want of a better word, beauty. We sail down a street—alert and porous—and see the city anew. It speeds up, or smoothes out. We are in a movie seen by wheel, and we are stars in this movie (me and the city), and the city becomes something small and beautiful that we could almost tuck in our pocket.
And while it is...
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“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...”
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
jessethorn:
I visited with my friend Luke...
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WatchNow that’s a self-portrait project.
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“Visibility will be poor in the open countryside.”
“If you want to do this and be serious, you have to find your own rhythm...”
– David Bazan of Pedro the Lion.
The quote refers to his musical career specifically, but it applies just as well to any creative endeavor in general. Read the whole interview over at The Great Discontent.
(via delgrosso)
December 2011
49 posts
“I’m a journalist. I don’t make resolutions. I make deadlines....”
– Ginger Christ @gchristDBJ (via partylikeajournalist)
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Focused dabbling →
mrgan:
Dan Benjamin on Back to Work:
“I don’t believe it’s possible to have a side business. I don’t think you can have a business on the side. I don’t think you can go to work and have a job and then come home and run a business. I believe that both the job and the side business… you will never…
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“No one can maximize on every engagement, every project, every customer and every...”
– Seth Godin
Fight with knives: Lessons Learned in 2011 →
fightwithknives:
Just like you didn’t see 27 Dresses when it came out, begin avoiding 95% of writing that uses personal pronouns, which means almost everything online. It doesn’t matter if it’s written by someone you’ve met in real life, or in a publication you’ve read any liked before. If it’s someone who…
“your job is to find the joy in the bullshit”
“The best cure...
