Perspective If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend they […]
Read slowly The digital world offers us many advantages, but if we yield to that world too completely we may lose the privacy we need to develop a self. Activities that require time and careful attention, like serious reading, are at risk; we read less and skim more as the Internet occupies more of our lives. And […]
QR Codes We’re bombarded by more information than ever before. With the rise of all this information comes a rise of the amount of bullshit we’re exposed to. Enter QR codes. Pointless.
Who defines you? Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? Danielle LaPorte
The Labrynth You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
Being tough on critics I say they’re just fucking wankers. I cannot be doing with people like that. It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives. It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that sort of shit, rather than get off their arses […]
David Bailey on Fame I saw David Bailey being interviewed at his show at The National Portrait Gallery. The interviewer gestured around the portrait section. He said “You really have shot a remarkable number of celebrities.” Bailey said “Nah, I don’t shoot celebrities.” The interviewer said “But these are all famous people: Michael Caine, Andy Warhol, […]
Bus to Abilene I so often witness a failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and true leadership ability. I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they’re good talkers, but they don’t have good ideas. It’s so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy […]
Don’t worry, he’s a dick. Political correctness is the oppression of our intellectual movement so no one says anything anymore just in case anyone else get’s offended. What happens if you say that and someone gets offended? Well they can be offended, can’t they? What’s wrong with being offended? When did stick and stones may break my bones stop being […]
Wisdom looks like… As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie
Drainpipes You know the ones. People who invite you around for dinner and you seriously contemplate that prospect for a long time before saying ‘Yes’. Likelihood is you’ll leave feeling worse than when you arrived. They zap your energy, take the fun out of life and make you become like them. Drainpipes. Toxic people. Complainers. Whatever […]
Each to their own I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, then it is beautiful. If not, it can’t […]
