August 2011
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mnmlst: walking ads →
“I’m as guilty as anyone, but I think it’s time for us all to reflect on this.”
The mnmlst on consumption and advertising.
Really really appreciate this post!
I wish people would talk more about predatory advertising- how companies bank on our fears and prey on our insecurities, creating problems that we are pressured to solve with their products. Because of this, we are either...
curiosity counts →
possibly a very dangerous link for someone like me who who has an obsession with design-y, cerebral, “connecting-ideas-and-thoughts” things…
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swissmiss | The Value of Nothing →
…”We need to learn to make peace with the information we don’t know, to embrace the zeroes, to relearn the pleasures of hunger, need, interruption, restraint.”…
RELEVANT Magazine - Why You Need to Fail →
“Then he asked, “What do you think is the most important characteristic a leader must possess to be successful?” My honest response was: “She or he must have been broken—physically, spiritually, professionally, personally, relationally—and then gotten up, dusted themselves off and continued forward with the wisdom from that loss seared in both mind and heart. I would...
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“[We] hope, till hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates.”
– -via Moral Man and Immoral Society (25)- Reinhold Niebuhr
(originally from Prometheus Unbound-Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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