“I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bullshit.” ― Mel Brooks
https://altmba.com/constanceobrien/opportunity-costs-of-bullshitting-yourself/
Month: September 2015
“When you say what you want, you give others the opportunity to help you make your dreams come true.”
“If you met Elon Musk, I bet he wouldn’t talk much about Paypal; he would probably tell you about how he plans to make space flight routine.”
https://medium.com/life-learning/never-tell-people-what-you-do-124be62f0751
“Using Slack as a personal information center.”
http://sethclifford.me/2015/09/using-slack-as-a-personal-information-center/
“The seven keys to a great bus rapid transit system”
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/28073/the-seven-keys-to-a-great-bus-rapid-transit-system/
“The 100 “Best” Books on City-Making Ever Written?” – Brent Toderian
http://www.planetizen.com/node/66462
“A new kind of politics in Britain”
“Corbyn’s win against the odds shows we now live in a world where the iPhone is mightier than the mainstream media.”
“The North London MP ran by far the most effective campaign, combining smart use of social media with old-fashioned public meetings and street-corner politics.”
http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/editors-blog/2015/09/kind-politics-britain-150913001016352.html
New York Times Photographer Bill Cunningham is to…
New York Times Photographer Bill Cunningham is to Fashion Industry what Jon Stewart is to Washington Politics.
“I know that for every connection I make online, there is a connection I lose in the real world.”
“The Apple Launch is a closed circle of fawning sycophants, thrilled with gimmicks, adapted to computers, programmed, a throng of identical authentic individuals chained to their machines and congratulating themselves on being ‘connected,’ led by a human that resembles a robot.”
http://www.thealphapages.com/content/apples-launch-event-was-creepy-as-hell
“Obvious to you. Amazing to others.”
“The main responsibility of city planning and design should be to develop — insofar as public policy and action can do so — cities that are congenial places for [a] great range of unofficial plans, ideas and opportunities to flourish,”
http://reason.org/news/printer/what-jane-jacobs-really-saw