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How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate Busywork
the people of Byron Bay, Australia, don’t really do Twitter. They don’t even really do the Internet. I morning-twittered an evening ninja gig on the beach, expecting one to two hundred people. Seven people came. I played on the beach and then we all went for ice cream.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
One afternoon, Reeves and a colleague were having lunch in Central Park. On the way back to their Madison Avenue office, they encountered a man sitting in the park, begging for money. He had a cup for donations and beside it was a sign, handwritten on cardboard, that read: I AM BLIND.
Daniel H Pink • To Sell Is Human
The convenience of limitless connectivity has neatly paved over the nuances of in-person conversation, cutting away so much information and context in the process. In an endless cycle where communication is stunted and time is money, there are few moments to slip away and fewer ways to find each other.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Can you get your needs met and still be kind?
Michael Emmons • Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships
I find the most effective way to get someone's attention is to simply give, just like in dating. Hey, I noticed that you read this book on your website. I think you'd like this book too; it's pretty sh... See more
Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself
Sherry Turkle convincingly makes the case that younger people are so used to text-based communications, where they have time to gather their thoughts and precisely plan what they are going to say, that they are losing their ability to have spontaneous conversation.