Brian Sholis
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Brian Sholis
Using the enforced idleness that comes after major surgery, Sven Birkerts meditates on how time contracts and dilates and what that means for a sense of self.
Lapham's Quarterly • Strange Days | Sven Birkerts
* “All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness. Without tolerance and mercy all friendships die.”
thevalueofsparrows.wordpress.com • WORDS: Friendship by David Whyte
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A humane and mind-opening look at people's creativity, paired with a trenchant call for others—and the systems we all create—to recognize it and support them. “The failure to see disabled people as creative, collective forces worthy of our attention means that they’re left to make life work in a way that’s mostly invisible. Recognizing the... See more
Laura Mauldin • Care Tactics | Laura Mauldin
I’m rejecting the career ladder metaphor in favor of the career river. Here’s why:
1. The ultimate goal of the career ladder is: reach the top.
The ultimate goal of the career river is: reach your ocean - a thriving, wide-open ecosystem fed by other rivers to explore. /
Bridget Thoresontwitter.com- "Clock time, Mills learned, is the result of an unending search for consensus. Even the times told by the world’s most precise government-maintained “master clocks” are composites of the readings of several atomic clocks. The master clocks, in turn, are averaged to help create international civil time, known as Coördinated Universal Time and... See more
The New Yorker • The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
"This counsel is surely weighted toward white-collar knowledge work, although I hope it’s at least somewhat valuable to any reader."