December 2011
joy to the world | sufjan stevens | via...
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life is glorious, but life is also wretched. it is...
fistful of love | antony + the johnsons |...
if we define who we are just based on who we’ve been, we deny a lot of what we can contribute, change, and create. until we start to see ourselves in some way that allows for each of us to be a learning being capable of changing, and growing and standing out, we will always fight our ability to do so. learning beings learn. belief drives action. this creates possibility.
- nilofer merchant on...
a conscience slumbers in every human being, something divine. and that is what we have to put our trust in.
- vaclav havel, 1995 | via yancey
when i was first starting out people always said, ‘write what you know.’ seriously, no one is interested in what i know. i’m not interested in what i know. …i find that the stories i like best to read and the stories that people like best of mine are the stories where i’m trying to figure something out. usually what i am trying to figure out is something that bothers me and often it doesn’t...
goodbye again [john denver cover] | youth lagoon
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the harrow & the harvest | gillian welch |...
the show went on sale at noon on saturday, december 10th. 12 hours later, we had over 50,000 purchases and had earned $250,000, breaking even on the cost of production and website. as of today, we’ve sold over 110,000 copies for a total of over $500,000. minus some money for paypal charges etc, i have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). this is less than i would have been paid by a...
have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you’re...
i said that i am not an expert by any means in the industry that any of these women are in but my reaction was why be frustrated in those companies for years on end. learn what you need to learn, grab four other women who are just as smart as anyone at the table and create your own companies. be your own president and change the marketplace. if women want to truly change it is not going to come...
3. twitter is trying to de-emphasize private messaging by moving it a layer deeper in the user interface. i’m guessing there are a bunch of reasons for this, not limited to: simplicity, perhaps relatively low usage by most users, potentially confusing rules around DMing, and that more public content is probably better for twitter’s product and advertising goals. some long-time and hardcore twitter...
