It’s tempting to imagine that [you] could be forceful and self-confident without being arrogant or jerky, but that’s a false hope, because it’s other people who get to decide when they think you’re a jerk, and trying to stay under that threshold means giving those people veto power over your actions. To put yourself forward [...]
we were pointed to this story by david thorne via our ever handy twitter feed. while testifying during his trial over hacking a certain former veep candidate’s email, 4chan founder Christopher “Moot” Poole was asked to define some of the terms the court had run across on 4chan’s boards. we’re still laughing at the idea [...]
fear, after all, is our real enemy. fear is taking over our world. fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. it’s how politicians peddle policy and how madison avenue sells us things that we don’t need." – a single man the emotional component of the sales process is strong and, [...]
what would you do if you could travel back in time?” such was the question recently posed by graphic designer alex varanese. his answer? world domination, of course. in his high imaginative design study, alt/1977, varanese created a series of fictitious advertisements based on the idea of marketing today’s technology with a late 1970′s graphic [...]