Tag: Books
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Festina lente / make haste slowly
The meaning of the phrase is that activities should be performed with a proper balance of urgency and diligence. If tasks are rushed too quickly then mistakes are made and good long-term results are not achieved. Work is best done in a state of flow in which one is fully engaged by the task and…
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“I didn’t know whether or not to laugh or cry when he said that Trader Joe’s target customer is overeducated and underpaid.” Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe
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This post’s title is rad
A post. Here is a man eating an apple: I read this book a lot when I was a kid. He has another book that was good too. I’ve read them to my kids. (I am using this post to test blog changes, so it is nonsense. What fun!)
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Clickable proverbs.
Ancient Dutch proverbs are the best. 🔗 Netherlandish Proverbs, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
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Good parties
For when you want to be that accountant or in the first Ghostbusters. 🔗 21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties
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“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.”
“perhaps I am expecting too much when there is a poop emoji on the cover.” Cory Doctorow Turned His Word of the Year Into a Whole Book
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Dust Cover Portraits of the Late 70s
This is what I remember every portrait of an author or academic being like on the backs of all those used books I used to read from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. And, a variation: There was also the leaning back in chair, sports jacket wide open with a big gut and wild hair, waving…
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Paper: when the message demands the medium
Robin Sloan contemplates the _ The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons_: It occurred to me, deep into a really wonderful experience, of reading and thinking and feeling and pondering, that if Wizards of the Coast had published exactly the same material online — and you can imagine this easily: you can imagine the website, as slick…
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The art of Jean-Michel Nicollet – “French cover design can be unsympathetic to cover illustration, crowding the paintings with poor type choices and purposeless graphics.” // Great looking paperback covers. // That basic framing would be good for video thumbnails…?
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Treat your to-read pile like a river – ”To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).” // Be comfortable with…
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Frans Francken the Younger (1581-1642) and David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690) The Interior of a Picture Gallery Around 1640
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