Category: words

  • jetgreguar: when u losing followers for reblogging blackout selfies

  • syfycity: Light rail hallway in denver

  • ‘Crazy-busy’ is a great armor, it’s a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we’re feeling and what we really need can’t catch up with us. Exhaustion is not a status symbol –…

  • boingboing: February 27th: Happy Birthday John Steinbeck

  • austinkleon: Pablo Neruda on originality annfriedman: I’ve been thinking a lot about the illusion of pure originality ever since I read this comment from Pablo Neruda… I’m putting this here to remind myself that next time I feel the desire to defend and clamp down on my work, it might be time to try making something…

  • If you are going to learn from other writers don’t only read the great ones, because if you do that you’ll get so filled with despair and the fear that you’ll never be able to do anywhere near as well as they did that you’ll stop writing. I recommend that you read a lot of…

  • Twenty-Five Good Spanish Comics from the 2010s

    Twenty-Five Good Spanish Comics from the 2010s tebeosforyanquis: Hi and welcome to a new tumblr celebrating Spanish comics. I wanted to use this first post, in the late winter of 2015, as an overview of the past five years of Spanish comics, talking about (my necessarily biased and limited choices for) 25 pretty cool comics…

  • The closest reference point for this kind of gameplay would be Gone Home, if Gone Home wanted to explore politics and class identity set to a sweeping soundtrack by Austin Wintory (who scored Journey and The Banner Saga) rather than riotgrrl cassette tapes. Then again, perhaps you could call Gone Home a very Tale of…

  • emergentfutures: Here’s Why People Trust Human Judgment Over Algorithms You’d think after years of using Google Maps we’d trust that it knows what it’s doing. Still, we think, “Maybe taking the backroads would be faster.” That’s an example of what researchers call “algorithm aversion”: even when an algorithm consistently beats human judgment, people prefer to…

  • Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed by the umbrella term designer. UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry | Co.Design | business…