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...the nicer a corporate office looks, and the more features it offers employees, the less likely it is that you'll ever leave the premises for things as mundane as a well-rounded personal life

The PA Report - LucasArts’ eulogy reminds us of the inhuman cost of game development

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Betty Friedan, reconstructionist. 

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You'll Never Forget Your Twenties, Because That's When You Become Who You Are.

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Inspired by Choire, Here’s a helpful test to work out if you’re wasting your time.

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“It is the artist’s responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labour of creation.” Lessons for creatives from Patti Smith.

“Often stepping back you see more, don’t you?” Lessons for creatives from David Hockney.

“There is no ‘properly.’ There’s just how you feel about it.” Lessons for creatives from Keith Richards.

“Being self-conscious doesn’t help you at all when you’re alone and trying to create something new. It does nothing.” Lessons for creatives from Miranda July.

“It never occurred to me that I could be a showrunner and it never occurred to me that I could be a person who was on television.” Lessons for creatives from Lena Dunham.

“And what I did was turn that negative into a positive. I started embracing it like, “Yeah, I’m based.” I made it mine.” Lessons for creatives from the world’s best rappers.

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14 year old Lena Dunham fills out a Millennium survey about the year 2000. (Lessons for creatives from Lena Dunham.)

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We are here to witness the creation and abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house. According to the second law of thermodynamics, things fall apart. Structures disintegrate. Buckminster Fuller hinted at a reason we are here: By creating things, by thinking up new combinations, we counteract this flow of entropy. We make new structures, new wholeness, so the universe comes out even. A shepherd on a hilltop who looks at a mess of stars and thinks, ‘There’s a hunter, a plow, a fish,’ is making mental connections that have as much real force in the universe as the very fires in those stars themselves.

Annie Dillard on the meaning of life (via explore-blog)

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Getting paid to take the piss out of brands.