“…the opponent in one’s head is greater than the one on the other side of the net!”
- Tim Gallwey, The Inner Game of Tennis
Why does “dumb” so often beat “smart?” It’s not just a matter of “wasting effort” by “overthinking the game.” It’s a matter of building up blockers that don’t need to exist in [...]
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Cleaning my desk yields the following half-baked ideas, scribbled on various scraps of paper:
“A thud is the sound of success in the making.” – M. Lyon
margarita recipe:
2 shots Captain Morgan on ice
1/3 orange juice
1/3 cranberry juice
1/3 pineapple juice
- M. Lowenthal
Use BLOCK letters or script letters on flip charts, to express the character of the words.
e.g. [...]
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Everything is going according to plan.
I just don’t know exactly what the plan is.
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If you liked the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods , then you will *love* the Periodic Table of Typefaces.
(Thx SMG)
Unlike the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (which missed Periodic Tables as a kind of popular visualization method, but let’s not get too recursive now…) the Periodic Table of Typefaces provides some research-based rigor behind its choices of “Popular, [...]
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I work half the time you do
I know you must hate this
Hold up, I’m about to put you
In a two-by-two matrix
vs
I got a house in the Hamptons
And a penthouse loft
But you’ve got intangibles
Is that why your skills are so soft?
Reminds me of a conversation I once had with a friend, comparing the elitism [...]
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