Famous explosions, rendered with cauliflowers
Month: March 2012
How parents harm their kid’s education
How parents harm their kid’s education
SMBC:
“I got her a good grade.”
“Shouldn’t we let her do that on her own?”
“Well, kids these days aren’t very self-reliant.”
The modern Japan
Tom Downey:
Japan has become the most culturally cosmopolitan country on Earth, a place where you can lunch at a bistro that serves 22 types of delicious and thoroughly Gallic terrines, shop for Ivy League–style menswear at a store that puts to shame the old-school shops of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and spend the evening sipping rare single malts in a serene space that boasts a collection of 12,000 jazz, blues and soul albums. The best of everything can be found here, and is now often made here: American-style fashion, haute French cuisine, classic cocktails, modern luxury hotels. It might seem perverse for a traveler to Tokyo to skip sukiyaki in favor of Neapolitan pizza, but just wait until he tastes that crust.
Yes, I’d like to visit there someday. Who’s in?
10 Commandments for Con Men
1.Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them.
8. Never boast. Just let your importance be quietly obvious.
Why read books above your ‘level’
Why read books above your ‘level’
Ryan Holiday:
Reading to lead or learn requires that you treat your brain like the muscle that it is–lifting the subjects with the most tension and weight. For me, that means pushing ahead into subjects you’re not familiar with and wresting with them until you can–shying away from the “easy read.”
The psychology of priorities
A strategic approach to to-do lists from a general.
First I make a list of priorities: one, two, three, and so on. Then I cross out everything from three down.
