April 2011
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Crashingly Beautiful: Poetry →
crashinglybeautiful: “When I speak of poetry I am not thinking of it as a genre. Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.” —Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting In Time “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public…
Apr 22nd
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The Management Myth - By Matthew Stewart →
Mayo’s work sheds light on the dark side of the “humanist” tradition in management theory. There is something undeniably creepy about a clipboard-bearing man hovering around a group of factory women, flicking the lights on and off and dishing out candy bars. All of that humanity—as anyone in my old firm could have told you—was just a more subtle form of bureaucratic control. It was a way of...
Apr 12th
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"Keep Portland Weird"
Things I won’t miss about Portland: < blockquote> “Keep Portland Weird” is done, and they failed. Portland used to be genuinely bizarre. Klingon Karaoke in a bar called Bodacious Classics? Lumberjack gangs running around chopping down telephone poles? Homeless people carrying katanas for protection? That was all weird. Portland, OR in 2010 is mildly unusual. Possibly the...
Apr 5th
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