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Starting Over. Again.

Quinn Warnick02.2013Digital Self

I built my first website, an online version of my university’s literary journal, in 1999. Actually, I convinced my much smarter roommate to build it for me, then I duplicated his template, copied and pasted each story or poem from QuarkXPress into NotePad, and added a few basic HTML tags. And boom — we were live on the web. I was … Read More

The Bland Book, Totally Mundane™
Nice parody of corporate branding guides. "So many brands default to bland, so they’ll never be noticed or remembered. If you like to be bland and stay safe with no distinctive direction or attributable assets, Copywriter Vikki Ross and Designer Paul Mellor will make sure you never stand apart from the competition, or stand out."
Want a New You in the New Year? Try Committing to the Bit
Jeremy D. Larson, in the NY Times: " A bit is a durational performance. Experimental theater. It is a joke told so many times that, eventually, what you’re laughing at isn’t the actual joke. It’s not the joke that’s funny, but the fact that it is still going, perhaps never-ending. A particularly strong bit can go on so long that it loses the pretense of humor altogether, making the audience lose track of why it was being told in the first place."
Meaningful Work Kit
Interesting interactive exercise from Stanford Career Education to "help you understand and prioritize what makes you thrive."
Tailwind CSS
"Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML."
The Steel Man Technique: How To Argue Better And Be More Persuasive
Instead of relying on straw-man arguments, Louis Chew suggests using a "steel man": "Put simply, it’s building the best form of the other side’s argument and then engaging with it. It’s being charitable and patching up the weaknesses in the other side’s proposition so that he can bring the best counter-argument to your point of view."