November 2009
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The one I reject a lot is people say, “Well, you know what, ‘Stuff...
– Christian Lander
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I’ve noticed that people who read a lot of blogs and a lot of books also...
– Seth Godin asks us in his blog post “Thirsty” (via lanipauli)
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The Tyranny Of E-mail
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‘In 2009, the average office worker will spend forty-one per cent of her day reading and responding to e-mails. Freeman makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity. He returns several times to the fact that “the average office worker sends and receives two-hundred e-mails a day,” making...
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I’d be after 3000-3500 words (at $1/published word)
– This is a great read.
Monthly editor Ben Naparstek, in an email to Eric Ellis (The Monthly and Eric Ellis – the Correspondence – The Content Makers) This is by far the most compelling sentence of the whole debacle. (via clembastow)
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Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff’s head and said flatly, “This...
– How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
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On Saturday night I was reminded of this great email exchange I had with a Dell accounts person last year. Start reading from the bottom.
———Original Message——— From: Campbell, Alex To: Anagha_[removed]@Dell.com Subject: RE: Ogilvy Interactive Pty Ltd Sent: Nov 14, 2008 3:10 PM Hi Anagha, Thank you for sending through these details. We can put this...
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One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing...
– Gandhi
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...
– Aristotle (via somethingchanged)
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Chess players who train with computers are much stronger for it. They test their...
– “Refuting this post helps confirm it,” Tyler Cowen Marginal Revolution (via somethingchanged)
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A bank is supposed to raise money and lend it to sectors that need it. It’s not...
– - Elliot Spitzer
FT.com / Columnists / Lunch with the FT - Lunch with the FT: Eliot Spitzer (via heyitsnoah)
October 2009
56 posts
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theflaneur:
Ok Guys. The First Thing You Need to Know is that the Internet is Amazing!