Mar
08

“Best Practices for Supervising Millenials” and 33 Other Horrendous-Sounding SXSW Panels

vanityfair:

1. Can Growing a Moustache Change the World?
2. My Robotic Kitchen Planned This Dinner Party
3. Political Humor 2.0: Teh Internetz R Leaking
4. How to Be Yourself When Everyone Else Is Faking It
5. Online Therapy … Naked?
6. I Need a Place to Sleep Meet Up
7. Eat Shit Sleep: Enlightenment Through Unemployment
8. Bridging the Lawyer-Social Media Manager Divide
9. Extracting an Emotional Story from Mobile Datasets
10. Best Practices for Supervising Millennials
11. Are We Killing Social with Social?
12. Arts Criticism 140 Characters At A Time
13. Data Is Sexier Than Sex … And I’ll Prove It
14. The Rise of Brooklyn Food Scene
15. Are Great Employees Overrated?
16. A Dr, Patient & Insurer Walk into a Social Network
17. How to Personalize Without Being Creepy II
18. Explorations in Corporate Zoology
19. Sexy Data Solutions for Public Transit Systems
20. Being Considered Obsolete Is Awesome
21. Avoiding Bullshit Personas: A Case Study
22. From Collegiate Soccer to Professional Business
23. In Search of the Muslim Sassy Gay Friend
24. Moms vs. Management: Parents Make Awesome Managers
25. Why Hasn’t the Internet Made Voting Awesome?
26. Help, My Avatar Is Sick
27. Brands That Believe in Sex After Marriage
28. Community & Influence: How Not to Piss People Off
29. Snackable Content: Working in a Bite-Sized Future
30. Why Your Car Will Be the 5th Screen in Your Life
31. I May “Like” You, but I’m Not in Like with You
32. Juggalos: Rabid Branding, a Case Study
33. Closer to One: Buddhism and the Internet of Things
34. Flash: F Bomb or Da Bomb?

[And here’s three good ones!]

oh, sx.

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07

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02

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01

good: The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Art Every Day Art is essential. If you haven’t reached that conclusion on your own, consider some evidence: Science shows that exposure to art is correlated with enhanced abilities in math, cognition, and vocabulary. We’re using March’s GOOD 30-Day Challenge to dare ourselves to make time for art in our lives. We’ve listed 31 ideas for incorporating art into your month into a convenient check list. If you’d like, you can try to do all 31 tasks in a week, or take your time and space them out. Either way, every time you’ve completed a task, come back to the page and check off the one you’ve done. At the end of the month, we’ll tally up all the actions to quantify how much more artistic everyone got in March. See the list on GOOD.is→  Wanna do this!

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The GOOD 30-Day Challenge: Art Every Day

Art is essential. If you haven’t reached that conclusion on your own, consider some evidence: Science shows that exposure to art is correlated with enhanced abilities in math, cognition, and vocabulary.

We’re using March’s GOOD 30-Day Challenge to dare ourselves to make time for art in our lives. We’ve listed 31 ideas for incorporating art into your month into a convenient check list. If you’d like, you can try to do all 31 tasks in a week, or take your time and space them out. Either way, every time you’ve completed a task, come back to the page and check off the one you’ve done. At the end of the month, we’ll tally up all the actions to quantify how much more artistic everyone got in March.

See the list on GOOD.is→ 

Wanna do this!

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Feb
29

equalitymyth: danielleh: good: Women Make Less Than Men at Every Education Level Among Americans with some form of post-high school education—a vocational, associate’s, bachelor’s, or advanced degree—men make more than $800 above women’s pay every month. And the gap widens as men and women climb educational ranks. In short, education is valuable, but it’s most lucrative if you’re male. Read about it on GOOD→  Ladies, we have to start negotiating the living shit out of our salaries. Everywhere, every job. RELATED: Why Women Don’t Negotiate — And What We Can Do About It (Forbes)

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danielleh:

good:

Women Make Less Than Men at Every Education Level

Among Americans with some form of post-high school education—a vocational, associate’s, bachelor’s, or advanced degree—men make more than $800 above women’s pay every month. And the gap widens as men and women climb educational ranks. In short, education is valuable, but it’s most lucrative if you’re male.

Read about it on GOOD→ 

Ladies, we have to start negotiating the living shit out of our salaries. Everywhere, every job.

RELATED: Why Women Don’t Negotiate — And What We Can Do About It (Forbes)

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