In my search for the source of the thing about Maya Angelou in my last post, I came across this story from Oprah about a conversation with Maya Angelou:
One day about ten years ago, I was sitting in …
Steven Pressfield seems to be gearing up to his new book, Turning Pro:
No matter what happens, up or down, in the world of the marketplace or the sphere of “what other people think of our stuff,” we …
Beyond your wildest success lies your next even wilder success. Well, of course, but what I mean is that, you’ve got to go beyond all of the strategies that created your last success, and get back to …
Speaking of the need to make your own living, check out this wonderful kid:
So amazing. Gotta love it. (via Daring Fireball)
Instagram is awesome, and $1 billion is a lot of money, but let’s not lose sight of what’s important here.
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The deeper you get into how messed up our current system is, the more clear it is that the change is going to be chaotic and messy.
Take food, for example. All evidence suggests that eating animal-bas…
For more on fish, check out this awesome TED talk by Dan Farber:
It’s yet another example of how fucked up our relationship with food is, and how tone-deaf we are about it.
Feeding chicken to fish?
Staying on the topic of food, here’s a clip from the Daily Show about the recent revelation that the meat industry puts up to 15% really disgusting “pink slime” in ground beef.
Ignoring for a moment …
In Yosemite, they have these signs (captured by copeg):
So, wait, human food makes animals gain weight, and become dependent on (addicted to) the food - I wonder if it does the same to humans?
Why do…
