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All posts from September 25, 2009
Covering treasure in piles of new treasure
Interesting idea and clever application of it by Simen. Read the whole article — maybe after that you want to fine-tune your Tumblr as well.
A while ago, Cursive Buildings wrote:
Creating a good blog is like writing a good book that no one reads past the first page. creating a good blog is like hiding your treasure under piles of new treasure. creating a bad blog is like burying your trash under piles of new trash.Today, this article has been making the rounds, and it advises us:
It’s time we create meaningful indexes and put our best — not latest — content up front, instead of just doing what’s easiest.They’re kind of right[…]. I whipped up a small experiment in (partially) rectifying this on my blog.
“El tiburón, el tiburón, se la llevó.”
(via Superwoobinda)
The Referendum »
“The Referendum is a phenomenon typical of (but not limited to) midlife, whereby people, increasingly aware of the finiteness of their time in the world, the limitations placed on them by their choices so far, and the narrowing options remaining to them, start judging their peers’ differing choices with reactions ranging from envy to contempt. The Referendum can subtly poison formerly close and uncomplicated relationships, creating tensions between the married and the single, the childless and parents, careerists and the stay-at-home. It’s exacerbated by the far greater diversity of options available to us now than a few decades ago, when everyone had to follow the same drill. We’re all anxiously sizing up how everyone else’s decisions have worked out to reassure ourselves that our own are vindicated — that we are, in some sense, winning.”
A must read for anybody between 25 and 35. Particularly if they’re not married. Particularly if they feel they’re standing in the middle of some kind of existential crossroad. I insist.
(via Tiffamander)
