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Asking for things is hard.
adrianparsons: After being laid off, an ex-coworker asked me to write a recommendation for him on LinkedIn. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. A few weeks later, a friend trying to grow her career as a comedian asked me to retweet her latest joke. I didn’t hesitate to say “yes”. I was surprised when I…
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it’s a(door)able
it’s a(door)able go play “it’s a(door)able”, and then support it, too!
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prostheticknowledge: Dreeps iOS game is an RPG with minimal involvement – you set an alarm clock for when you and your character wish to awaken after sleep, and you can observe the journey of your character throughout the day: For you who don’t have time anymore to play RPG, “Alarm Playing Game” is a new…
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hyperallergic: This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists’ Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists’ books from across several Smithsonian collections. The site was announced last week, with a search that gathers over 600 titles. READ MORE
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booksfromthefuture: Superbold — Book about heavy fonts by Christoph Laurisch
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Explaining his ideas to Japan Times in 2001, Ekuan said, “Design to me has always meant making people happy. Happy in the sense of creating items that provide comfort, convenience, function, aesthetics and ethics. I used to do a lot of research, fieldwork, wanting to understand the psychology of human needs and response.”
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Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective…
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I wonder if it’s possible to create an art, a business, that’s more welcoming to the talented people we lose during the grind. I wonder if we can be honest about how difficult it is while also being supportive to those who struggle, instead of telling them to suck it up. The profession we’ve chosen…
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Not all hostages or prisoners evoke the same national outcry. Not all command the same price. And not all are slated for release. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which turned kidnapping and ransom negotiations into an efficient business and took hundreds of captives, held tiers of hostages. Celebrity hostages—including politician Ingrid Betancourt, who…
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