January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
22 posts
A Statement from Louis C.K. (December 13, 2011)
People of Earth (minus the ones who don’t give a shit about this): it’s been amazing to conduct this experiment with you. The experiment was: if I put out a brand new standup special at a drastically low price ($5) and make it as easy as possible to buy, download and enjoy, free of any restrictions, will everyone just go and steal it? Will they pay for it? And how much money can be...
“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly...”
– (via acollectionofmoments)
Revealed: huge increase in executive pay for... →
But they deserve it right? Or the other one I love is, “We have to pay them this much to remain competitive with other corporations in the search for executive talent.” Talent being the key word there.
favoritedaydream:
2010 was a great year to lose your job as a CEO. Four of the 10 highest paid CEOs were retired or departing executives. Ronald Williams, former head of Aetna, a...
WatchDredgers Union Cleveland, Ohio. Inspiring to see people doing great things in OH. I’ll be back.
November 2011
24 posts
Greater Cleveland in Denial About Its Downfall:... →
“Let’s take stock. As a region, we got smaller, more spread out, more segregated by race and income. Cleveland’s image problem? Still bad, perhaps worse. The state of the Cleveland Public Schools? Ugh. The future of our region more generally? The trends aren’t encouraging.
The word sprawl — the thing that is killing our region, robbing children of opportunities, preventing working age...
kateoplis: I Believe In The Internet - The Content... →
kateoplis:
“The Internet is not just a series of pipes. It’s core architecture embeds an assumption about human nature. The Internet is designed to empower individuals not control them. It assumes that the if individuals are empowered, they will do the right thing the vast majority of the time. Services like…
Favorite Daydream: Young people in American... →
favoritedaydream:
Young people in America weren’t the architects of the economic downturn in this country. We didn’t invent mortgage-backed securities or adjustable-rate mortgages, didn’t loan money to risky borrowers on the assumption that housing prices would continue to rise, didn’t allow for the creation of a…
October 2011
44 posts
