It’s too easy to blame the organization and the system and the bottom line for decisions that a person would never be willing to take responsibility for. Whenever you can, work with people who take it personally.
“U.S Rep Jim Cooper*: “Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government’s failure to fix real problems.” —
From: Outdated Laws and Subsidies—How Did It Get So Bad? [The Atlantic]
*My congressman and friend.
“Marco Arment: “Microsoft is so much more interesting today. While Google seems to think they don’t need to change anything and Apple’s customers are brainwashed by marketing, Ballmer has shut up about Apple publicly and Microsoft is making radical changes.” — Learning from competition – Marco.org
Scott Adams:
“My hypothesis is that apologies are a way for humans to determine their status in society. A king and queen never apologize for their actions because they don’t need to. But the server at your local restaurant apologizes even when he knows the customer is in the wrong, because the server has a lower status than his boss, who in turn has a lower status than the customers. When you’re trying to determine the status of people, apologies are reliable markers.”
[via: The Dilbert Blog]
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Quote: “An author starting out today needs to … establish a niche, become truly the best at it and relentlessly and generously give it all away as a way of leading and making a ruckus. It takes a long time, but it’s still faster than waiting for Binky Urban and Knopf to find you.
[via: Digital Book World]
New York Magazine invited a handful of top designers to submit concepts for their latest cover “best of New York.” Here are somem that didn’t get selected.
(via REJECTED New York Mag covers - Coverjunkie.com)
“Danny Sullivan: I think Google has failed to understand that along the way, it has become just another big company. It’s a big company that makes mistakes, like any big company will do. But unlike most big companies, the entire ‘Don’t Be Evil’ mantra it created for itself years ago has given it farther to fall.”
— 
On Google & Being “Evil”, Marketingland.com
“NYTimes.com: Yoga teachers and how-to books seldom mention that the discipline began as a sex cult — an omission that leaves many practitioners open to libidinal surprise. | Huh? I feel so out-of-the-loop.” — Yoga Fans Sexual Flames and, Predictably, Plenty of Scandal - NYTimes.com
“Felix Salmon: So while sometimes the failure to link is unavoidable, I look forward to a time when journalists face much more criticism for not linking to primary documents than they do for not linking to some other news organization which got the news first.”
— 
Why journalists need to link | Felix Salmon
![And the award for best chart-humor about the Oscars goes to this slide-show.
[via: The Best Picture Nominees, As Infographics — Vulture]
[h/t: J-Rob]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzxbqaWM0R1qz4grjo1_500.jpg)
And the award for best chart-humor about the Oscars goes to this slide-show.
[via: The Best Picture Nominees, As Infographics — Vulture]
[h/t: J-Rob]
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![[RT: Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) on Twitter] “I’ve posted this before, but for new followers, here’s my favourite screen grab of all time.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzvq18XiEK1qz4grjo1_500.jpg)
[RT: Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) on Twitter] “I’ve posted this before, but for new followers, here’s my favourite screen grab of all time.”
Comic: Parent’s Worst Facebook Nightmare (via: Nitrozac and Snaggy - Voices - AllThingsD)
![If you’ve ever wondered what the difference in nerds and geeks are, this will help: These guys are dorks.
(via [EXCLUSIVE] Keyboard Pants So You Can Dance (And Still Type, Browse, etc.) | WebProNews)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzma4p2nt61qz4grjo1_500.jpg)
If you’ve ever wondered what the difference in nerds and geeks are, this will help: These guys are dorks.
(via [EXCLUSIVE] Keyboard Pants So You Can Dance (And Still Type, Browse, etc.) | WebProNews)