January 2012
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Just the Tip: Two Wrongs Don't Make Getting Tipped... →
More tipping-based craze has flared up, this time bringing Yelp and Facebook into the mix and the idea of social shaming. Public consensus seems to be that you’re a bad person for not tipping but you’re a worse person for calling somebody out for it. Lots of interesting tipping psychology revealed in the comments.
To me, instances like this are just further evidence that the whole...
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December 2011
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You Say You Want a Devolution?
Kurt Anderson for Vanity Fair, on why culture, particularly the aesthetics, seem to keep looking backward rather than forward:
Why is this happening? In some large measure, I think, it’s an unconscious collective reaction to all the profound nonstop newness we’re experiencing on the tech and geopolitical and economic fronts. People have a limited capacity to embrace flux and strangeness and...
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November 2011
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October 2011
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Steve Jobs: Our digital version of Walt Disney →
Steve Jobs has been compared to multiple business icons—Thomas Edison and Henry Ford to name a few—but the best comparison may be to Walt Disney.
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September 2011
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