Category Archives: link

An analysis of some basic rhetoric techniques could offset tantrums? Worth a try: teach a kid to argue (and perhaps learn to be better at arguing yourself).

[matt] A short Venn diagram describing how to be happy in business. As you expect from a diagram and a blog post, this doesn’t offer any hints on how to get there, but there’s indeed something profound about seeing things broken down so simply.

This list of 50 Banned Books That “Everyone Should Read” contains a number of works that I’ve read as part of studying English in an Australian high school, a few more that I’ve read out of interest, and some I’ve avoided. Are there any gems there I should make time for?

Improv Everywhere throws a randomly chosen couple a Surprise Wedding Reception.

Have these tips lost some of their sheen? It’s hard to tell. If you suddenly need to find a job, the art of manliness has tips on how to network like a man – how to dress, how to get the word out that you’re looking for work, that kind of thing.

The Internet Mapping Project – people of different ages sketching their own “map” of the internet.

[ /karen/ ] Timely ideas for belt-tightening: change the way you think about money and wealth.

[ Delicious/glass ] George Lucas – 1983 vs. 2005

[ kottke ] Don’t eat the marshmallow – long New Yorker essay about the work of Walter Mischel who discovered some correlations between self-control as a child and success in later life.

Tweeting your way to a job – if the NYT is talking about it, it must be reaching mainstream, yes?