Category: Notes
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Great designers don’t add value
Recently, I found myself trying to quantify what design brings to the table in an organization. There’s general agreement in the business world that design is important, but everyone wants data to back up just how important it is — especially when it comes to the bottom line. In considering this, I’ve come to the…
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Stephen Fry on language and people
Now the English language is like London. Every time we speak, it is a mongrel mouthful, whether we know it or not, of Chaucer and Milton and Dryden and Pope and Shakespeare and Dickens and American south-central and ghetto rap and Chicago and Australian convict talk and legal and naval and military. Every phrase we…
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A triptych to live by
“View of Toledo,” by El Greco, “Guernica,” by Picasso, and “Repentant Magdalene,” by La Tour. Talking from these three paintings, I could pretty much tell you everything I think about the world.
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Indisputable proof that my daughter is the coolest kid on the block
Violet rocking out to Battle Born.