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by cunard-n 16y ago
The behavior you describe is its own antidote for a normal person. A narcissist would blame the client. A sociopath would grab some nearby colleague and throw them under the bus. May I suggest that the trouble with narcissists is the effic
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by cunard-n 16y ago
Thank you. I love these.
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by cunard-n 16y ago
fer gods sake!
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by cunard-n 16y ago
Well, maybe we could do it at the Rhino on one of these nights, then?
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by cunard-n 16y ago
If all else fails, we can get pie-eyed!
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Hi, yeah, I'm the king of Kensington and I just need...just joking. Big ups faramarz
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by cunard-n 17y ago
The thing about lists of habits is that they supply their willing victims with a prima fascia choice: Do as the others do and abandon integrity or ignore me (or us) and stick to what your whole life up to this point has tought you. How does
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Interesting. So, what became of Goyer and Cormie? I'd like to hear more about their experience. yr. 2000 was early days!
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Congratulations, elsewhen. Good luck.
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Thanks for posting this. count one more in the mind=blown camp!
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Gamow: "No, I'm a fake Ph.D. I never got a real degree." I just have to say. I love the way this guy talks. What a fun article.
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by cunard-n 17y ago
It's such a tiny country. We must know each other!
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by cunard-n 17y ago
This recalls to mind what I think is a very compelling argument found at the beginning of "Freakonomics." Namely that people are not stupid, and they know that if they stop paying for the bagels, the bagels will dissapper. In the book, they
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by cunard-n 17y ago
I find that the corellary is that it's this pain and these lessons that give you such a leg up on the recent graduates just getting into the business. They don't know how close everyone always is to the line. This relates back to the old "d
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Yes it does help. We're always bound under some kind of NDA...But you're right. It's something to think about.
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by cunard-n 17y ago
I have a comment. I have been urging my confreres to use basecamp and actively looking for other collaborative tools. To little or no avail. Old-school is real. I can say that much. But the questions old-school types ask is usually based no
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by cunard-n 17y ago
wouldn't women who were very fertile be able to become pregnant while lactating? Such women would appear to have permanent breasts because they were always pregnant or lactating, thus signalling their fertility continuously and in that way
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by cunard-n 17y ago
See also: "Forces of Production" by David F Noble, for an account of how specialized skills and self-reliance were usurped my management in a slow but deliberate war of many losers between the early 20th century and the late 1970s. He takes
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by cunard-n 17y ago
Thanks. I'll check these as soon as I have a second.
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by cunard-n 17y ago
You can listen to podcasts of Chomsky. His live talks help put this quote into context. He speaks often at Universities. Some of the questions he fields are kind of sad, and Chomsky is quite civil to the kids that basically want him to refu