July 2015

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Why Are You So Angry?

Ian Danskin’s 6-part series digging into angry behavior and where it comes from. Start at part one. I think he puts a pretty good finger on it. In part two, he uses an analogy where you offer someone a drink at a party, they respond with “I don’t drink” and you feel a little judged […]

The Disapproval Matrix

The lower-left quadarant of Ann Friedman’s excellent chart is “Frenemies”: Ooooh, this quadrant is tricky. These people really know how to hurt you, because they know you personally or know your work pretty well. But at the end of the day, their criticism is not actually about your workβ€”it’s about you personally. And they aren’t […]

Pokey

Pokey LaFarge has been awesome for a lot of years now. He puts together such a classy band with a great old time vibe and killer chops. Fun to see this video blowing up: