May 2011
1 post
“For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a...”
– Christopher Hitchens in yet another throwing candid piece about his cancer. The quote above really stood out.
Read the full post here.
February 2011
1 post
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
March 2010
4 posts
Criminally underrated currently living artist: Tim...
Criminally underrated currently living artist: Tim...
Released in 1996, previously on a vinyl...
January 2010
1 post
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia (via giantrobotlasers) (via tedr)
December 2009
2 posts
4 tags
Merry Xmas, track from John Peel xmas special
Watchninedaysoff:
Get an insight into the business thinking of 37 signals’ Jason Fried.
via 37 signals
Some #awesome advice
November 2009
2 posts
“Going with the flow is a euphemism for failing.”
– Seth’s Blog: Boundary makers (via hiten)
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to...”
– Abraham Maslow 1968
October 2009
1 post
4 Day week?
Rory Sutherland, who heads up the Ogilvy UK group talks about the benefits of a 4 day week. So longer days for employees but giving them a three day weekend. He also digs into a bit of history referring to Henry Ford who started off the whole 5 day week from 6 as to give people more time to spend. Rory questions whether 4 day weeks would increase spend on time off?
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September 2009
2 posts
fred-wilson:
The World’s Greatest (R Kelly...
6 tags
Bike For Three: aka Buck 65aka Rich Terfry -...
August 2009
3 posts
Been meaning to post this for a couple of months...
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘a faster horse’.”
– Henry Ford
The customer’s not always right!
(via jonathan-deamer)
“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change...”
– Reinhold Niebuhr
May 2009
4 posts
Bill Hicks on “pro life” - the prophet...
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits...”
– F. Matthias Alexander (via tlvx) (via deplorableword)
“You can either live your life on the top of a mountain or at the bottom of the...”
– Mike Tyson on being a manic depressive
Probably the best track on the new Von Bondies...
April 2009
3 posts
Today I’d like to share with you the new...
One of my favourite tracks from my favourite John...
“For most animals, the reality of life is struggling, suffering and death..”
– Richard Dawkins - “The genius of Charles Darwin” documentary
Happy Easter everyone ; )
February 2009
6 posts
“Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To...”
– “Never give all the Heart” - W.B. Yeats
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,...”
– “He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven” - W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)
“It all comes out grey and matters less with each sunset”
– Youngblood Brass Band - “Nuclear Summer”
“I’ve got nothing against drugs….. I’ve got NOTHING against...”
– Bill Hicks
January 2009
3 posts
Joystick
Those who live by the joystick, die by the joystick…
Ultimatums...
Ultimatums are expressions of powerlessness… Empty threats designed to try and influence a situation someone has no control over……………….
“Back in the 1960’s, a man named Joe Pine hosted a rather remarkable TV...”
– “INFUENCE: The Psychology of Persuasian” Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D. epilogue pages 273-274
Cialdini makes a point of how we very often use one piece of information to make a decision about someone or something…