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edwardshepard:

Ha - the Space Jam website from 1996 is still up: http://bit.ly/hMPQqG

Whoa

bobulate:

Manage yourself

Seth Godin on being your own boss:

If you had a manager that talked to you the way you talked to you, you’d quit. If you had a boss that wasted as much as your time as you do, they’d fire her. If an organization developed its employees as poorly as you are developing yourself, it would soon go under.

And:

We are surprised when someone self-directed arrives on the scene. Someone who figures out a way to work from home and then turns that into a two-year journey, laptop in hand, as they explore the world while doing their job. There are few good books on being a good manager. Fewer still on managing yourself. It’s hard to think of a more essential thing to learn.

As Peter Drucker said, “we must each be our own Chief Executive Officer.” But in order to learn how, you must first learn how you learn. The key primer on doing so is Drucker’s “Managing Oneself” (PDF), which asks you to consider:

• What are my strengths?
• How do I perform?
• How do I work?
• What are my values?
• Where do I belong?
• What can I contribute?

The small differences in how you perform (e.g., do you know if you’re a reader or a listener?) are fundamental to being your own boss. You would do as much for people you manage. Manage yourself.

davereed:

themattsmith:

aatombomb:

The tiny amount of marijuana police found while searching Touray Cornell’s home on April 23 became a huge issue for some members of the jury panel.

No, they said, one after the other. No way would they convict somebody for having a 16th of an ounce.

In fact, one juror wondered why the county was wasting time and money prosecuting the case at all, said a flummoxed Deputy Missoula County Attorney Andrew Paul.

District Judge Dusty Deschamps took a quick poll as to who might agree. Of the 27 potential jurors before him, maybe five raised their hands. A couple of others had already been excused because of their philosophical objections.

“I thought, ‘Geez, I don’t know if we can seat a jury,’ ” said Deschamps, who called a recess.

And he didn’t.

- Billings Gazette

That is AWESOME.  Pure case of real grown-up civil disobedience.

Props to them

whenparentstext:

Me: I feel sick

Mom: Take a Nottingham

Mom: Take a Morton

Mom: Norton

Mom: Mortin

Me: Did you get an Iphone?

Mom: How did you know?

When Parents Text and Damn You, Autocorrect collide.