by Patrick Rhone, Master Generalist
The Strange Rise of the Writers’ Space – The New Yorker
A relatively new institution, the shared writers’ space, fills a niche so small that it isn’t covered in Saval’s book. At these urban oddities, members get access to a quiet room or two full of desks, often with an adjacent eat-in kitchen, perhaps a couch—in other words, an office. But without a boss. And you pay them, instead of the other way around.
Sign me up! I would love to have such a space in my city.
Stop putting the work aside that should be doing for the work you need to do. Yes there are things we need to do, but we should be smart enough to identify the work we need to do and schedule it in for the appropriate time in the future. It then becomes work we should be doing at the right time. Continually reacting to work that needs to be done shows a lack of planning. Plan ahead to eliminate reactive work.
This is full of Yes.. Act. Don’t react.
Current status.
I believe it is only through the flexing of that small, frail, imaginary muscle of empathy that we will build the strength to erect a new human architecture on this fragile, fragile planet – a stronger one, one of connectedness and understanding.
Quiet Revolution: Unlocking the Power of Introverts
New site and community platform from Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. So far, it looks to be a wonderful resource for those of us.
I actually miss this machine. This has me feeling all the feels.
Dark Chocolate Nuts & Sea Salt Kind bars – yummy and only 5g of sugar – Boing Boing
I just picked some of these up based on the review and I have to say, it was delicious. I’m hypoglycemic and therefore generally always try to keep a healthy, blood sugar increasing, snack close at hand. I think these will become my new go-to.
Home. Late Spring 2015.
Tsudoku: Japanese for leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other unread books.
Ideas for Twittering better – The Real Adam
Non-brilliant and happy? Probably in! Brilliant and happy? Probably in! Smart with a little bit of edge? Maybe. Just angry? No thanks.
I like this and some of the other suggestions he has. Increasingly, what I’m thinking I’d like from my Twitter stream is “Wow!”. That is to say, each time I open Twitter I would like to see at least one thing that makes it worth my time. Something enlightening or thought provoking or interesting or just makes me smile.
One strategy I have long employed, keeping the number of people I follow low (currently at 375 but I think my “sweet spot” is 350) and being fairly choosy about it. That said, I always feel like there are people I should be following to increase the Wow! factor that I’m not yet. Either I have yet to discover them or, my brain has not made the leap from “I love this person’s work and find them fascinating.” to “I should follow them on Twitter”. I’m sort of slow on the uptake that way.
Anywho, I’m always open to suggestions if you have them. I’m @patrickrhone on Twitter.