TED talks are lying to you. The writer had a problem. Books he read and people he knew had been warning him that the nation and maybe mankind itself had wandered into a sort of creativity doldrums. Economic growth was slackening. The Internet revolution was less awesome than we had anticipated, and the forward march of innovation, once a cultural constant, had slowed to a crawl. One of the few fields in which we generated lots of novelties — financial engineering — had come back to bite us. And in other departments, we actually seemed to be going backward. And yet the troubled writer also knew that there had been, over these same years, fantastic growth in our creativity promoting sector. The literature on the subject was vast.
It was to one of these last that our puzzled correspondent now decided to turn. Anecdote after heroic anecdote unfolded, many of them beginning with some variation on Lehrer’s very first phrase: “Procter and Gamble had a problem.” Had our correspondent developed the gift of foresight? No. A Guide To Proper Comma Use - Business Insider.
Profiles - Tasker Wiki. Who needs new music? In this week’s issue of the magazine, our critics show us what’s in their personal collections of old culture, much of it you might’ve missed. All of it is available online, somewhere. Herewith, Jody Rosen’s list of sixty great albums you probably haven’t heard. 1950s 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 1970s 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60.
How I use email for marketing | Nathan Barry. What’s the most valuable asset in your business? A while ago when Brennan Dunn and I were talking about business assets and determined our most valuable assets are the same: our readers. Not the source code of our SaaS products, the copyright on our books, or our websites. The connection I have with my readers is what my entire business is based around, and that is all contained in my email list. Without that list I don’t have a way to stay in touch, share new ideas, or promote new products.
Strange to think that the most valuable thing I own can be listed out as a comma separated list. Since I’m open about every other part of my business, I figured it’s time to dive deeper into how I use email. Email Management Currently my email is handled with two tools: ConvertKit (my product) and MailChimp. My email is hosted with MailChimp, but all my new subscribers come through ConvertKit. Update: ConvertKit now has list management and broadcast (one time email) functionality. Segmenting My system. "Mein Führer! I can walk!": "Dr. Strangelove" editor Anthony Harvey on the. Above: the notorious unused pie fight finale to Dr. Strangelove. As pretty much every film buff knows by now, Stanley Kubrick's 1964 nuke satire Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ends on a note both decidedly bizarre and oddly apt.
Increasingly excited by his plan to secrete the best and the brightest of American hegemony in a mine shaft to sit out the nuclear shroud of the Doomsday Machine, the heretofore wheelchair-bound Strangelove (Peter Sellers, in one of three roles in the film) suddenly rises and takes a few short, hobbled steps forward. "Mein Führer! " he cries in elation. "I can valk! " But too late: it's all over, as a thoroughly distressing montage of mushroom clouds, accompanied by the WWII sentimental hit "We'll Meet Again. " The original ending was a bit different. Despite its grand theme of global apocalypse, Strangelove is a fairly intimate film. "Working with Kubrick overall was remarkable. How Can I Learn to Take Criticism Without Taking It Personally?
Kinja is in read-only mode. We are working to restore service. There's a Very Good Reason why it can be difficult to accept criticism without taking it personally. Criticism _is personal_. Let's look at the first two definitions of criticism at dictionary.reference.com/browse/criticism 1. the act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything. 2. the act of passing severe judgment; censure; faultfinding. The _act of passing judgement_ as to the _merits_ of something. The act of passing _severe judgement_, _censure_ _faultfinding_. Let's read that last one again. What we need isn't an article; on how not to take criticism personally. Flagged That's an interesting idea. Sitting next to her in precalculus class, I was very nervous. I had never asked a girl out before.
As I forced myself to ask her if she’d “like to go bowling with me sometime,” I spaced out mentally. Luckily, she said yes, which made me feel a strange mix of euphoria and nervousness, and I think I smiled and squeaked out a few words of approval. My mind was spinning with too many thoughts. Why? I really liked her and didn’t want to look stupid, which increased my chances of looking stupid, because the pressure I placed on myself gave me difficulties with routine things like speaking and thinking clearly. But when we watch movies, the hero always seems to know what to do and often does it with perfect, calm execution. How is it that some people do so well under pressure while others visibly shake? Those who thrive under pressure seem to act as if the pressure doesn’t exist. What if I told you there was a simple action anyone can take to deflate a high pressure situation?
Weird. The Suave Fist. TIES - Imgur. A Viewer's Guide To The Room | The A.V. Club. [Editor’s note: For those of you lucky enough to see The Room in a theater—or perhaps willing to recreate the experience at home—a group of Room devotees has been kind enough to put together this thorough (but by no means definitive) guide to its communal rituals. Print and save.] • ”Spoon!” Nearly all of the artwork in the film features spoons. Whenever one of the works appears on screen, you yell “Spoon!” And hurl plastic picnic spoons at the screen. . • “Sestosterone!” • ”Cancer!” • ”Denny!” • ”One!” • “FOCUS! • ”Shoot her!” • Yelling “‘Cause you’re a woman!” • Various things to yell over B-roll: “Alcatraz!” “Go! “Everywhere you look, everywhere you look!” “Meanwhile, back in San Francisco!” • Saying “Hi” to Tommy when he appears to look down at the corner of the screen during the party scene.
. • As Denny eats the apple which might be the most heavy-handed and irrelevant action in the film, I enjoy shouting “Oh, shit! • At one point, two characters will show up in Tommy’s apartment.