January 2011
20 posts
Hendrix
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for...
PD Smith: China to create largest megacity →
pdsmith:
“City planners in south China have laid out an ambitious plan to merge together the nine cities that lie around the Pearl River Delta. The ‘Turn The Pearl River Delta Into One’ scheme will create a 16,000 sq mile urban area that is 26 times larger geographically than Greater London, or twice the…
Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name...
– Brian Dyson, CEO of Coca Cola Enterprises from 1959-1994 (via jeremycowart)
The one-sentence solution to almost all...
The one-sentence solution to almost all procrastination (no, really)
Oliver Burkeman
http://www.oliverburkeman.com/2011/01/the-one-sentence-solution-to-almost-all-procrastination-no-really/
Don’t get me wrong: I’m a huge fan — to a problematic degree, some might argue — of productivity tips and tricks like the Pomodoro Technique, Mark Forster’s Autofocus system, and the geeky godfather of them...
Decisions