A reader writes to Andrew Sullivan. (via streamrunningover)
Woah. I’ve never quite thought of it like that.
Never procrastinate anything you can do right now
Very powerful. There are many things that can be fixed or solved with a minimum of effort, but are often pushed aside as unimportant. Unfortunately they won’t go away, and in time the feelings of guilt for not having done them will make you even less likely of fixing the problems.
Always assume that you will succeed
If you don’t expect to succeed in an endeavor, then you will not do your best and will not notice possible solutions, while if you feel that you will eventually succeed you will concentrate all your power at the problem. Of course, there is no point in attempting what you cannot do, a certain amount of self-knowledge is always needed.
Don’t try to explain away your actions for yourself
While we often do things we do not want to explain our real motivations for before other people (out of fear of embarrassment, anger or loss of image), it is a bad idea to try to convince oneself that the motivation was anything different from what it was. It will only reduce your self-knowledge with deliberate misinformation, and it is often valuable to understand what motivations you have (even if you dislike them or would never admit them in public).
If I could instantly apply all of this to school, I would, but I don’t think I could do that quickly. There I go, already breaking rule #2.
I love this modular bookshelf solution from Sloom & Slordig.Simple and effective. It looks quite lovely against the exposed brick as well.
Oh man… I really like this. Perhaps I will look into building something like it.
“The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, fraps, or any other video gaming videos that simply depict individuals playing a video game. Videos falling into this category will be subject to deletion as of September 1st; new videos of this type will be removed.”
So exciting.
The comments on that are getting a little intense, but i think this is a really good decision. I think the large difference in what will and will not be deleted is that Machinima is just using the game as a CG environment with a cast of characters to create your OWN video, creatively producing and editing something that isn’t actually related to the game, whereas all the other game videos are showcasing the gamers’ abilities.
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