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But a funny thing has happened since the rise of professionalism. The tenets it embraced—that some people are more qualified than others, that training and apprenticeship have value, that not everyone can or should (or needs to) gain admission into the club—have become unfashionable.
— The Believer - Haterade
Asian dad approves of hipsters
They record CD’s that become “keepers”, the mainstay of your collection, though they may go “out of style” someday…when their cover of “Come On Eileen” came on. I think I came. Great music that won’t be soon forgotten by anyone who’s heard them.
— Pitchfork’s 9.5/10 review of Save Ferris’ It Means Everything on the Wayback Machine
zoya:
You ever just wake up and google “Totoro sweater”?
Storytelling is still important, but it’s not enough. The best question I think you can ask is, “What do our customers hate about our category, and can we use digital tools to fix it?
— What Do Advertising Agencies Need To Do To Thrive In 2012? @PSFK
No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.
— Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
Hot Topic: Pepper Spray, Police Violence, and Protest
So pepper spray is in the news again—this time because two police officers, whose M.O. can only be described as “overreacting,” took it upon themselves to squirt streams of the fiery stuff straight at a group of students seated on the U.C. Davis quad.
Watch the video on YouTube. It’s a…
The United States faces a daunting challenge in creating jobs: at current rates, it will take until 2016 to replace the 7 million of them lost during the 2008–09 recession. To regain full employment—finding work for the unemployed and accommodating the 15 million Americans expected to enter the labor force this decade—the US economy must create 21 million jobs by 2020.
— The growing US jobs challenge - McKinsey Quarterly - Economic Studies - Country Reports
It’s a little known fact that eating asparagus doesn’t actually make your pee smell different. Asparagus has a very mild hallucinogenic in it and eating this green cooked actually changes your sense of smell, not your urine.
-Mickie Cathers
The US Postal Service story is not a unique situation. It is the situation. And we are going to be living with this situation for many years to come. We are crossing a huge chasm from an industrial society to an information society. And there is immense pain in that transformation. Obama can’t solve the problem nor can any of his opponents. Time will solve this problem as new industries get built, people learn new skills and new jobs, and we dismantle entitlement systems that are not sustainable.
— A VC: What Is Going On?
