Sep 9, 2010
Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.
Emily Post (via austinkleon via bobulate)
Sep 8, 2010
GPOYW

GPOYW

Sep 7, 2010

We all have a dark and sticky place we go to in our minds when we’re trying to get off. Every last one of us does it, not every time, but we’ve each got a basement with some dripping nasty shit locked away in it.

Thing is, you feel guilty for it, so your psyche bakes up little Freudian pie filled with repression, displacement, and sublimation and serves you up a hot slice of rape fantasy.

If you’re not following Dear Coke Talk yet, what are you waiting for?
Sep 7, 2010
Holy shit. [via]

Holy shit. [via]

Sep 2, 2010
Pedestrians on First Avenue [in Seattle] from the Seattle Municipal Archives.
I’m amazed by the amount of signs on First back then. Word is that this is near Pike.

Pedestrians on First Avenue [in Seattle] from the Seattle Municipal Archives.

I’m amazed by the amount of signs on First back then. Word is that this is near Pike.

Sep 1, 2010

Netflix vacation policy is only the tip of a radical compensation iceberg

dfdeshom:

What Netflix is doing with both its vacation and pay policies is to make its in-demand engineers feel like rational, thinking adults. The company trusts them to make decisions, and to act in the best interests of both their company and themselves.

Here’s another quote from the article (emphasis mine):

At a time when it’s not a stretch to say that poorly designed financial incentives imperiled the world’s economy—Wall Street’s greed played a big role in the housing bubble that precipitated our current crisis—more corporations would do well to examine Netflix’s approach. Despite what many leaders seem to believe, money isn’t the only carrot that motivates employees. Trust, flexibility and freedom each go a long way toward keeping employees happy, engaged, and sticking around. Even if they take a couple extra weeks of vacation.

This is exactly the thesis of the animated talk I posted about not too long ago, but put into practice in a real-world environment and working, seemingly, better than the alternative.

It turns out that if you give people some freedom and treat them like rational individuals, they will in turn work better, harder, and more respectfully for you. Who knew?

Aug 31, 2010
A young Sir Ian McKellen.
This photo has been, it seems, rapidly traveling around the Tumblrsphere, but (as is annoyingly and impudently common on Tumblr) there’s no indication of who the photographer is or what year this was taken. Anybody know a way to find out?
(btw, I got it from Nerd Boyfriend)

A young Sir Ian McKellen.

This photo has been, it seems, rapidly traveling around the Tumblrsphere, but (as is annoyingly and impudently common on Tumblr) there’s no indication of who the photographer is or what year this was taken. Anybody know a way to find out?

(btw, I got it from Nerd Boyfriend)

Aug 31, 2010
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Matt and Kim - Cameras [via louobedlam via famoussoundingwords]

Aug 31, 2010
[via thedailywhat via reddit]

[via thedailywhat via reddit]

Aug 29, 2010
Aug 29, 2010
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Mumford & Sons - The Cave

Recommended to me by my friend Lee.

Aug 28, 2010
Gosh. Is it just me, or do these just get better and better?

Gosh. Is it just me, or do these just get better and better?

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