June 2010
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I'll always owe you one.
This week at work I had what’s called a “stage.” Stahhhj. It’s French for stage, for Americans who use French words to describe their work. It’s sort of like an audition for high-end restaurant work, and it refers to both the candidate and the try-out. So this stage was following me around for a night, getting a feel for what I do. She had just graduated from...
April 2010
1 post
Interesting how freedom and capitalism seem to be... →
March 2010
2 posts
Wow. →
This story is amazing: a $27 million dollar social-realist statue built by the North Koreans in a middle of a Senegalese slum.
Unhappy American workers →
This makes me wonder why job satisfaction has dropped so precipitously in the past 20 years. Is it because we have higher expectations fueled by being relentlessly fed idealized versions of life? The first generations of Americans raised under a pervasive advertising culture now populates the workforce.
Is it because many, if not most, of Americans now work for a corporation and feel...
On writing →
Neil Gaiman: The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.)