All of Jason Franzen’s office etiquette posters are wonderful and tragicomically necessary, but especially this one. When in doubt, consult Chris Anderson’s Email Charter.
Compare and contrast with the 19th-century equivalent.
PAINTING THE INTERNET PINK
…The odds that the H.R.C.’s campaign, as wildly successful as it has been, will directly influence the decision of the Justices are nil, which speaks quite loudly to the limits of online activism: twenty million avatars are not twenty million people in the street. However, as Jeffrey Toobin wrote, as people and politics change, so does the Court. And online activism has shown, most notably through its role in the defeat of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act last year, that maybe it can change people.
Chicago Lights (by Satoki Nagata)
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We can’t begin being empathetic when another person arrives. We have to already have made a space in our lives where empathy can thrive. And that means being open—truly open—to feeling emotions we may not want to feel. It means allowing another’s experiences to gut us. It means ceding control.
Empathy begins with vulnerability. And being vulnerable, especially in our work, is fucking terrifying.
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We say yes!
Coming from one of my daughter’s fav movies/books…
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.Lemony Snicket in Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
Song: “If You Don’t Want To Be Alone” by Firehorse
Christopher Hitchens – and other icons – on criticism.
