Don’t expect too much from human life—a sorry business at the best. Letters of Note: Live as well as you dare Source: lettersofnote.com
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Hence my official position: it’s fine to abandon books or other projects – but you’ve got to really abandon them, not let them fade amid vague intentions to finish them some day. “It cannot be said often enough that one should not postpone; one abandons,” said the management expert Peter Drucker. Give the unassembled bookshelf …
Tumblr reminds me that Commonplace turned 6 today! Source: assets
The Rise and Fall of Mr. Zip
Informative and fun little article on the US Postal Service’s push to get Americans to add a 5-digit ZIP code to their envelopes and post cards. The effort started in 1963 and it took almost 20 years before Americans changed their habits — or knuckled under, depending on your point of view. Interesting slice of …
(via The Smart Set: Happy 50th Mr. Zip – June 12, 2013) Source: thesmartset.com
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Your reading style needs to go from “reading with some skipping” to “skipping with some reading”. Skipping is the new main course. Skipping is the primary activity. Why The Way We Read Sucks and How to Fix It: Part 2 | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Source: alljapaneseallthetime.com
From the Postsecret blog site
(via INCIDENTAL COMICS: Day Jobs of the Poets) Source: incidentalcomics.com
Before Sunrise” imagined romantic love as yours for the taking. “Before Sunset” saw it as something that might slip from one’s grasp. “Before Midnight” looks it straight in the eye and calls it out as hard fucking work. “It’s not perfect,” as Jesse says. “But it’s real. Before Midnight’s Rare, Beautiful Message: Love Is Really, …
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