Category: words

  • Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success

    Ten Tips Guaranteed to Improve Your Startup Success futurejournalismproject: As a startup we’re always on the lookout for tips and tricks that might help lead us toward success. Today, we’re thankful for this list by Anil Dash. Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billionaire I’ve ever spoken to has…

  • A Design Career Primer

    willmillar: Since graduating I’ve gotten my fair share of emails that go something like this: Yo Will! I [know/am] a whizbang superstar design student who is looking to figure out their post-design school potential. Can you hook a [brother/sister] up? xoxoxo[ Genius professor / Baller student / Beloved friend ] Well I might be exaggerating,…

  • rhube: “Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even…

  • There are books, that one has for twenty years without reading them, that one always keeps at hand, that one takes along from city to city, from country to country, carefully packed, even when there is very little room, and perhaps one leafs through them while removing them from a trunk; yet one carefully refrains…

  • the measurement of cholesterol demands things of me. it is tasking my relationship with my hungers and desires. it echoes out to me from the caverns of memory. the time when I was sixteen. and my grandmother collapsed when I got home from school. and my mother and I attempted cpr. and the times I…

  • That shows a real writer at work. How do you get something started? Get something interesting on the page, and then hopefully you work from there. When you’re starting that way, you don’t have any expectation that that’s what you’re going to be putting on the screen. Well, in that case it was, or at…

  • kateoplis: “Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. ” —Susan Sontag

  • bengriswold: Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice Ruth Webb This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers ‘see’ in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the Imperial period (2nd-6th centuries CE). The author places…

  • Interactive Guide to Blog Typography

    Interactive Guide to Blog Typography

  • focus and motivation have become an issue.