Today, marriage is more discretionary than ever, and also more distinctive. It is something young adults do after they and their live-in partners have good jobs and a nice apartment. It has become the capstone experience of personal life — the last brick put in place after everything else is set. People marry to show their family and friends how well their lives are going, even if deep down they are unsure whether their partnership will last a lifetime.
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Jason Collins came out Monday on the cover of Sports Illustrated; one of the big four American sports leagues has an openly gay active player for the first time
— Be Happy for Jason Collins - The Triangle Blog - Grantland
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A creatives job is to organize the obvious into the unobivious.
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Looking at Record Store Day and the 10-year anniversary of iTunes →
Sift through the rosy statistics for digital sales and a less promising reality emerges: The gains made by downloads are sluggish compared with the exploding reach of streaming services like Spotify and Pandora, which saw a 59 percent increase in revenues last year thanks to listeners willing to pay a nominal subscription fee (or sit through ads) in exchange for access to libraries with many more songs than they could ever purchase.
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I’d argue that the ritualistic aspect of buying tactile, beautifully packaged music objects intended to be played without doing anything else at the same time enhances the listening experience. If it seems like music has been devalued in our culture — if it’s thought of less as an art form with the ability to move, edify, and define us and more like one of the lesser apps on our smartphones — maybe getting away from this experience has something to do with it.
— Looking at Record Store Day and the 10-year anniversary of iTunes - Grantland
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People scrambling to survive don’t have time to worry about whether they’re victims or not. But people whose survival is assured, but emotional needs unmet, often become mired in seeing themselves as victims of the uncaring masses, left behind to rot.
— The Purpose of Life from a Practical Point of View | Girls Chase
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There’s a formula to the typical business book: look at some successful companies, analyze them, make some true generalizations of those companies, and then advise others to do the same.
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Now there is only a high-wage, high-skilled job. Every middle-class job today is being pulled up, out or down faster than ever.
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Regular guys don’t realize this, though. They think if they show up and put on their best friendly Mr. Rogers smile and throw on a large-size button-down shirt and talk about their day in the office and their favorite sports team that women will somehow magically see them as sexual beasts, rather than be bored to tears, and want to be with them.
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