Tess Dixon

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Snow day. ♥️

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The American Friends of Lafayette

Channel Your Inner Lafayette! 🇫🇷🇺🇸 Looking for a unique Halloween costume idea? Why not dress up as the legendary Marquis de Lafayette? This Spirit Halloween costume is perfect for any history buff...

Happy Halloween, fellow history nerds!

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@fuckyeahawesomeboss rides again

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Glitch Black.

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The Digital Workplace Is Designed to Bring You Down

Digital theorist Cal Newport is arguing for a new way to work.

A good summary of Newport’s thinking around the myth of multitasking and the issues of the modern “hyperactive hivemind” in the workplace. Check it out here if you don’t have an NYT subscription. My favorite part:

Traditional economic productivity largely requires people working toward a singular measurable output with a transparent process. You have this input-to-output ratio and a process generating it, and you can tweak that and see what it does to the ratio. None of that works in knowledge work. So we fell back to a proxy for productivity, which is visible activity. If I can see you doing work, it’s better than I can’t see you doing work. That was OK until we got to the ’90s and the 2000s, when we threw into the mix a lot more freelancing but also email and the I.T. revolution. Visible activity as a proxy for productivity spiraled out of control and led to this culture of exhaustion, of I’m working all the time, I’m context shifting all over the place, most of my work feels performative, it’s not even that useful. Slow productivity is all about identifying alternatives.

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A spoonful of history helps the willow bark go down – VCU Magazine: For Alumni and Friends

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IT'S CORONATION DAY

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Another bike ride across the James River

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I doubt he started it; it was probably going on 100 years before he was born. But I cackled!

(Also wish they had spelled “Allan” right. 🤓)

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This was me yesterday, though today is much better. The cicadas really killed me 😂

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Goodnight tumblets, tumblerinos

Sleep to win, my sweet bambinos

To those in other hemispheres:

Go get that diem carped, dears

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Have a good weekend, Tumblr, etc. etc.

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MISS CONGENIALITY (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

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I am once again coming to you to reblog the Perfect Date...

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I’ve gone over this before, but it is incredible how many people have become dependent on the office for their social interactions, and even more incredible how many people seem to believe this legitimizes a return to the office. It’s also truly stunning that the head of the association of HR professionals would suggest a bad thing about the office is that people aren’t meeting romantic partners or drinking. I will concede that if you stay at home on the computer all day and do not go out of the house, you will be lonely. However, you are also fully capable of going to an office full of people and being lonely too, because being in a room with people does not automatically mean that they accept you, and can regularly mean that they exclude you if you’re not like them. Why does this consideration never factor into these articles? That’s right, because there’s an agenda!