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Thursday, October 27, 2011

Sarah Kay on "Rethinking"

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Wisdom from Past Posts

Zen slap: An email auto-check set for every minute means 60 potential distractions every hour, or almost 500 per day. Look back at a week of your emails and ask yourself: how many distractions was that really worth? How much crucial, instantly actionable email did I receive to make it worth shifting my attention over 2000 times? --43 Folders, Quick Tips on Processing Your Email Inbox
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky, speaking in a BBC television interview with John Pilger on The Late Show (1992)
kummerspeck (grief bacon) -- excess weight gained while overeating during emotional times (German)
"Here's a procedure that I almost always find useful for improving almost any kind of written composition -- a speech, an essay, an op-ed or a story. As a first pass, try cutting the first 10 percent (the 'throat clearing') then moving the last 30 percent (the payoff) to the beginning of the talk (don't bury your lede!). About 90 percent of the time when someone gives me a paper for review, I find that it can be improved through this algorithm." --Cory Doctorow
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Most New Yorkers wouldn't travel to Minnesota if a bright star shone in the west and hosts of angels were handing out plane tickets, but they might read a book about Minnesota and thereby form some interesting and useful impression of us. This is the benefit of literacy. Life is lonely; it is less so if one reads. --Garrison Keillor
". . . it should be smooth, clear, and short, for the contrary qualities are displeasing." --Benjamin Franklin on good writing

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