Hackneyed

  • Remember

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    It’s not all about luck. “In any great outcome, there is a component of luck. Yet if life were all about luck, the same people wouldn’t repeatedly do great things. When someone repeatedly does great things it is because they prepared in advance to advance to recognize, work on, and fill in the blanks when…

  • Streaming Music Raises Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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    Here is something I’ve never thought about. From Pitchfork: Though the overall plastic production in the recording industry has dropped, greenhouse gas emissions caused by music consumption have reached an unprecedented high, a new study from the University of Glasgow shows. The changes in environmental impact are due to the decreasing popularity of physical music…

  • Vonnegut’s 7 Commandments

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    Reduce and stabilize your population. Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil. Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems. Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it. Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give…

  • Lectores

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    Since 1865, lectores in Cuban factories have read to the workers while they roll cigars. They read the news, novels, horoscopes, and recipes. While essentially performing in-house broadcasts, the lectores have been their informal teachers. “Far from being laborers starved of culture, cigar rollers had the opportunity to examine new ideas, remain informed, and gain perspective…

  • Principles & Values

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    Friends of mine own a pair of remarkable BBQ restaurants. The food is great. They are great. Their principles and values are worth a read. Many (all?) can be adapted not only to any business, but life in general: Be the best restaurant we can be, not just the best BBQ restaurant. Produce the highest quality…

  • If you ever find yourself in Harlem on a Sunday afternoon…

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    …stop by Marjorie Eliot’s. 555 Edgecombe Avenue, Apartment 3-F.

  • “I loved without memory.”

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    Masha Ivashintsova was born in Russia in 1942. When the Leningrad native passed away in 2000, they left behind over 30,000 photographs that had never been seen by anyone. As Ivashintsova’s daughter explains: My mother, Masha Ivashintsova, was heavily engaged in the Leningrad poetic and photography underground movement of the 1960−80s. She was a lover of three geniuses of the time:…