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The Tyranny Of E-mail
‘In 2009, the average office worker will spend forty-one per cent of her day reading and responding to e-mails. Freeman makes a persuasive case that e-mail has at once corroded epistolary communication and strangled workplace productivity. He returns several times to the fact that “the average office worker sends and receives two-hundred e-mails a day,” making us a “workforce of reactors” rather than performers.’
John Freeman: ‘The Tyranny Of E-mail’, via The New Yorker (HT Daria)
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After a 20 minute helicopter ride, autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire drew the entire city from memory. An absolutely staggering achievement. See more of his work on his website: http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/
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Amazing beach photography by Tasmanian Stuart Gibson. (via notcot)
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Most online experiences are made, like fast food, to be cheap, easy, and addictive: appealing to our hunger for connection but rarely serving up nourishment.
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In a discussion about the importance of distribution, some start-up guys – each the creators of new enterprises that took off like gun shots – were asked by a representative of the big, old club which company they would most want to do distribution deals with. The start-up guys cocked their heads like confused puppies. Why would we want to do that? they asked.
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