the section begins here:
and that, dear Diary, is why I will ensure I am facing downwind next time!
Oh! I must mention this as well. I have seen my future, and its name is Schneider. I truly believe I have found my place. Yes, I know that's what I said when I started as Director at Tryptophan Dude Ranch, but I thought the mention of dressage in the job description was some type of stuffing, not having to perform stunts with the blasted birds. I am still finding feathers in my waistcoat.
In any event, this Schneider woman and her associates specialize in something called public relations. No, silly, relations in this context means relation_ships_ - Boston is far too puritan for that. Companies engage them to help them look better in public. Need I say more? As you know (because I have told you), I am well known about town for my skill in fashioning gold from the basest materials. Imagine what wonders I can perform when starting with entities that have already shown familiarity with the elements of style!
As if that weren't enough, the openings are in the firm's digital practice. You know how frustrated you have been of late when instead of pouring out my heart in your pages, I spend hours twittering and linking in and pinning. I still love you, dear Diary - for how could one not love the mirror of one's best self? This new world, however, is a like an entire _garden_ of mirrors, casting reflected, sparkling pieces of its inhabitants onto virtual canvases. The artisans at Schneider take these tumbling mosaics and shape them into gentle armament as if for Cupid's bow, each speeding to capture the heart of a fickle public. These are the conversations of angels, engagement too pedestrian a term for the relationships crafted therein. Who would not wish to join
that is all the content I was able to recover. I hope the person is successful in their effort - it sounds like they would do very well at this Schneider place.
via xkcd.com
think global, rock local.
awesome his and her vids for david wax museum
David Wax Museum: Will You Be Sleeping, Part 1 from Harvey Robinson on Vimeo.
David Wax Museum: Will You Be Sleeping? Part 2 from Harvey Robinson on Vimeo.
Source: pinstamatic.com via Todd on Pinterest
hashtag #delicious
via youtube.com
the picture above is halley suitt tucker, who is writing a book. about a startup. several startups, in fact. the book is itself a startup because halley is crowdfunding its publication on kickstarter. my friend jeff shared a link to halley's kickstarter page. I liked the premise of the book and the thematically appropriate nature of its being, so I kicked in. it's easy - more on that below.
halley wants her work to entertain and inspire:
There are just not enough entrepreneurs starting companies and creating jobs. Especially women entrepreneurs. I want to change that.
Founders Less Than Three is a funny, sexy novel about a Boston-based accelerator where 5 female founders and 5 male founders and their teams fight it out to make their start-up company the next big thing. It's a book with solid entrepreneurial advice, adventures, laughs, love and all the twists and turns starting a business involves, as they race towards their demo day, when the teams show off their start-up ideas and see who gets the best deal.
I'm a writer, a blogger, an entrepreneur and I've been the CEO of a start-up company in Boston. I loved hiring people and handing out paychecks. I love the culture of "try anything, try everything ... now, try again."
I especially want more women to become entrepreneurs because I think they are well suited to the unpredictable path a new business usually takes. We need lots more women founding companies and creating lots of new jobs. Of course, I want my book to inspire female and male entrepreneurs alike and make them all say, "I can do that!"
via kickstarter.com click through to the page for the project
picture this: you're at a party. or at work not working. you are talking with other people. the subject? naturally, it is the latest based-on-a-true-story metaphysical tell-all bodice-ripping how-to insert-hyhentated-keywaord-here sensation from boston's own halley suitt tucker. and you oh-so-casually remark, "yeah, I was an early investor in that." okay, it won't get you a private island. but it will get you admiring looks from other people, and isn't the approbation of your peers what we're all looking for anyway?
take that $5 or $10 that's burning a small hole in your pocket and make a big difference. you heard the lady - you're financing a revolution!
here's a widget showing our progress! you can click on it to help out, too. you can see a fun video where halley describes the book and the project that for reasons known only to kickstarter refused to embed in this post so I saved it for the very end...
all the familiar characters here - the bitter childless employee who picks up the slack; the one who gave up a career because it wasn't fair to the kids or her peers; the junior associate pissed that she did all the work for a boss who was "checked out" and got none of the credit.
In theory, flextime seems like an everyone-wins proposition. But one person’s work-life balance can be another’s work-life overload. Someone, after all, has to make that meeting or hit that deadline.
As a result, many Americans who work for companies that embrace flexible hours are confronting a sort of office class warfare. Some employees have come to expect that the demands of their children, in particular, will be accommodated — and not all of their colleagues are happy about it.
These tensions are hardly new. But at a time when many Americans are struggling to find or keep jobs — and when many of us are being asked to do more with less — the issue has come to the fore.
via nytimes.com click through to read the whole article
why don't we ask the europeans how they deal with this? and not accept 'tank our economies' as an answer...
work-life balance is a good thing, but companies that implement it need to support those who need flexibility with tools like Workplace Solutions from care.com
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