Give a crap. Don’t give a fuck
How do you know if you’re doing a good job? There’s always an external way to measure quality—being prepared, attending to the details, listening to…
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Date a girl who writes
via ADORABILITY. Date a girl who writes. Date a girl who may never wear completely clean clothes, because of coffee stains and ink spills. She’ll have…
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Understanding Murakami’s 1Q84
The following excerpts below are from two articles that I found extremely useful in understanding Murakami’s 1Q84 and his style of writing. “Early in Haruki…
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Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26
“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The…
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Cloud Atlas (novel) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cloud Atlas consists of six nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is…
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Giving Everything It’s Due
Humanity’s great spiritual teachers– Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Gandhi, and others– are models, shining personal examples. They make their powerful impact not merely through the propositions…
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Grace Coddington Talks About Her Memoir, Bad Manners, Balenciaga And Anna Wintour In Rare Interview
This is a very good example of the “Technological determinism theory,” that ‘a society’s technology drives the very development of its social structure and cultural…
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» 11 Simple Ways to Create Genuine Connections with the People Who Make Failure Impossible (via zenhabits)
via » 11 Simple Ways to Create Genuine Connections with the People Who Make Failure Impossible :zenhabits. 11 Simple Ways to Create Genuine Connections with…
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20th Anniversary Sailor Moon Art Book
I am actually pretty excited about this. The resurgence of the Pretty Sailor-Suited Soldier Sailor Moon has been appearing in bookstores and Amazon marketplace over the…
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No, you’re not entitled to your opinion
The boyfriend tends to use this method of argument every time we disagree, or agree on a topic (it’s related to his Ph D thesis,…
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Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone.
(x-post Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. – Half & Half.) Don’t work. Be hated. Love someone. This witty yet piercing commencement speech is one…
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There’s A Big Difference between being Really Smart and Being A Genius
Geniuses like Einstein are also known for their creativity and productivity — and sometimes for their quirky behavior. There’s a big difference between being really…
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