Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The semantic struggle is real. Every day it gets harder and harder to know whether my vocabulary is inadvertently perpetuating a “growing tyranny of feelings” that threatens the very foundations of democracy. Thankfully the internet is full of vocabulary vigilantes eager to spell things out for the rest of the us – the most recent…
WASHINGTON—With Donald Trump’s two remaining GOP rivals suspending their candidacies and clearing a path for the billionaire businessman to assume the Republican presidential nomination, reports indicated Wednesday that, well, hoo boy, here we go. “So I guess that’s that—we’re off and running here,” said Oregon resident Carl Jacobs, raising his eyebrows and drawing in a…
The International April Fools’ Day Congress (IAFDC) announced Friday that the beloved holiday will be canceled for the first time in history due to the world already being a huge joke. “Just look at America,” IAFDC president Bembi De Gaulle at a press conference in Washington D.C. “On one side, you’ve got a reality television…
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is blasting rival Donald Trump for a National Enquirer story accusing Cruz of having five mistresses. Here’s a breakdown of how a week of fighting got us here. (Sarah Parnass/The Washington Post) The National Enquirer (with which Donald Trump’s relationship has not been un-cozy*) released a story this week insisting that…
Last spring, as Beckett Delaney was hoverboarding to his office in SoHo, his man bun flailing behind him in the wind, he came to an abrupt halt. “I realized I just couldn’t work that day,” Delaney recalled recently, in between puffs of an e-cigarette outside the Bushwick Sweetgreen. “Because I hadn’t finished binge-watching Master of…
Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Amazon. These top tech companies each receive over one billion resumes per year (source needed). So it’s safe to say they have a good process for choosing the best job candidates. But how do they do it? No, it’s not that list of popular Google interview questions you Googled…
/end .figure “All of Me” All of me How dare you try to take all of me Can’t you see I exist wholly, with unbreached self-esteem, without you My lips are mine How can I lose myself in you? I am still myself My arms are my arms Romantic love is a conscious expression of…
Note from Robin: This saga appeared in my secure dropbox late last month, along with a plea to post it on Facebook today in exactly the format you see here. I gather I’m not the only one to have received those instructions. I can’t vouch for the authenticity of the story, but I thought it…
3/10/2016 11:00am. AGENDA: Marketing to women. ATTENDEES: Mark, Ed, Steve, Mike, Mike S, Pete, Ben, Mike H, Dave, Aaron, Dan, and Dave P. – – 10:20 am Meeting begins DAVE P.: Owls. Something with owls. ED: Yes. PETE: Exactly. MARK: It’s bold. And if there’s one thing I like, it’s bold. MIKE S.: But not…
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