January 2012
2 posts
November 2011
2 posts
“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
Steven: I'm taking you to every Asian restaurant from now on
October 2011
1 post
revolights. →
March 2011
4 posts
Penelope: i think one thing that is true for both of us is that we have magnetic personalities as long as there are almost no people in the room.
Penelope: it's like i'm having dinner with you
Mikeysan: how would you get the monies to me?
Melissa: i have paypal
Mikeysan: i don't use paypal.
Mikeysan: they're shitbags and i don't trust them.
Melissa: how about western union? they're trustworthy i hear
February 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
daily
Melissa: i register domains like some people take showers
Colin: yeah, same
October 2010
8 posts
Missa: you've really taken this chartreuse thing to a whole new level
404
John: i thought of a good domain name
John: nogodhere.com
Melissa: oh that's good
Melissa: it's like, 404 god not found
August 2010
1 post
Penelope Trunk on why she announced her... →
July 2010
1 post
May 2010
1 post
Ashley and Remmy’s Engagement session →
March 2010
1 post
Kyle: can't say that i like that
Melissa: we all like it
Melissa: you are outvoted
Kyle: well -- i do believe in democracy
Kyle: so you have my vote
Melissa: that's nice, but i'm a dictator ;)
Kyle: i know you are melissa, i know.
February 2010
2 posts
October 2009
2 posts
“There’s this idea that McKinsey first articulated many years ago of the T-shaped...”
– IDEO on who to hire
So You're Moving to San Francisco →
September 2009
1 post
Modern Love: Figure It Out? Figure It Out? O.K.,... →
August 2009
3 posts
Modern Love: Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear →
Gerard Butler interview (Esquire) →
A partial list notes that autistics have, on average, superior pitch perception and other musical abilities, they are better at noticing details in patterns, they have better visual acuity, they are less likely to be fooled by optical illusions, they are more likely to fit some canons of economic rationality, they solve many puzzles at a much faster rate, and they are less likely to have false...
July 2009
3 posts
What Would Apple Do? Don’t Ask →
Alice in Wonderland furniture →
Jamie: you're just good at the internet in general
June 2009
9 posts
What's the connection between abortion and... →
Authors, Poets Write the News →
What’s Wrong With Cinderella? →
Eight questions for Jonathan Rauch →
“The ability to pay attention, focus and strategically disconnect will be a...”
– The Real Time Web is a Beautiful Distraction
“Another outcome of the social nervous system is that we see the shift away from...”
– The Rise of the Social Nervous System
Perfectionism and Gifted Students →
“Success occurs despite perfectionism, not because of it.”
– The Courage to Be Imperfect
May 2009
25 posts
“Women’s fear of success as essentially a fear of being alone at the top...”
– Vulnerabilities of highly gifted children
THE PRESSURES OF PERFECT
The pressures of perfectionism may lead to high-achievement motivation or may just as easily lead to the problems of underachievement. The pressures children feel to be perfect may originate from extreme praise they hear from the adults in their environment. They may also come from watching their parents who model perfectionistic characteristics, or they may stem from their own continuously...
Working with Perfectionist Students →
So what I want to say to you today is this: if this sounds, in any way, familiar to you, if you have been trying to be perfect in one way or another, too, then make today, when for a moment there are no more grades to be gotten, classmates to be met, terrain to be scouted, positioning to be arranged—make today the day to put down the backpack. Trying to be perfect may be sort of inevitable...
Perfectionism in Gifted Children →
25 And Over →
Effects of Transience →
Personally, in the last five years, I’ve lived in three countries (USA, France, China), and six cities (Austin, Paris, Beijing, Chengde, New York, San Francisco). Seven cities, if you count that Las Vegas is where my family lives now and I’m back and forth between there.
In a month, it’ll be four countries (since Hong Kong isn’t officially part of the PRC until 2012), and...