How do you do someone a favour and not drive yourself crazy? This seems pretty obvious now that someone’s told me how to do it, but in short: Do them a favour which is no big deal to you, even though it may be a big deal to them, and shy away from doing favours […]
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…for Microsoft, on YouTube. Brilliant.
Via Sam Sethi
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Green Park
Originally uploaded by dynamist.
If I can spend a few minutes between meetings with a good book on a bench in surroundings like this, maybe London isn’t so bad. (There’s a real autumn in August thing going on here right now which I am enjoying the hell out of.) It started raining soon after I […]
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For some reason, I find myself wanting to go out a LOT lately. As in, nearly every night. When you consider that my usual idea of bliss is to be installed in a cosy spot in a warm house (preferably with rain, thunder, and lightning outside) with Antoine and a good read or a fierce […]
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Sadly, more than a few intelligent friends of mine have told me - with a straight face - that the whole UK/US airports emergency was obviously just a publicity stunt to divert attention from Israel’s war with Hezbollah (or, as one friend put it, “so that Israel can murder more children with less of a […]
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Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair is either completely out of touch with reality or a shameless liar. Maybe he’s been mesmerized by one too many government propaganda tickers.
People are opening their doors, leaving their doors open now, or leaving them unlocked, certainly, in a way they haven’t done for 25 years.
Guido has some evidence […]
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Steve Pavlina:
The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.
Via Adriana, with whose opinion of Steve’s […]
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Ben Casnocha explained this to me in person, and I’m glad he’s blogged it:
I spoke with an executive the other day who hired artists — painters, sculptors — to live in the office of a services company. The artists were asked to do what they did everyday: make art. It had no apparent relevance to […]
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Well, I needed that.
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I don’t believe in email auto-responders, so FYI, I am off to enjoy some photography in the fine English countryside for the next day or so. Correspondence will be non-existent (especially since my mobile doesn’t work out there).
Later, freaks.
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Considering the immense talent of the judges in this short short story competition, I am very pleased indeed to have made the shortlist. Jeepers.
By the way, one of the judges is Sophie Hannah, whose writing just rocks. Check it:
Don’t Say I Said
Next time you speak to you-know-who
I’ve got a message for him.
Tell him that I […]
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On my flight from London to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, I read Confessions of a Bad Mother by Stephanie Calman in its entirety (and still had time for a five hour nap).
While the occasionally SHOUTY tone can be a bit grating, on the whole this is a funny, touching, and clever […]
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Her predicament is really, terribly sad. I try not to judge the support she gives him, but I have to say that I think she is doing him no favours whatsoever. She is doing herself the favour of not feeling like a mother who has abandoned her child, of being able to say that she […]
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Jeff Jarvis:
The more open the network, the more valuable it is — but the harder it is to own, and thus the harder it is to value in old terms of ownership and market cap. That’s what really argues against the IEEE authors. They are trying to put a corporate value on networks. You can’t. […]
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