Tag Archives: Culture

A few Fridays ago, the Irreal Red Meat Friday featured a Lifehacker article on why you should throw your neckties away. At the time, I mentioned that although most Irreal readers would be on-board with the idea of doing away … Continue reading →

I like crossword puzzles and when I’m on a roll will do 3 to 5 a day. But being an American, I’m a crossword sissy. American crossword clues are mostly a synonym or direct pointer to the target word. About … Continue reading →

Lots of people love Apple. Others, not so much. But whatever your feelings about the company, you’ve got to give them props for their famous response to AT&Ts suggestion that Steve Jobs wear a suit to an upcoming meeting with … Continue reading →

Years ago, there were not only library card catalogs but the cards within them were handwritten. Written not with the hen scratching that characterizes my (and probably your) handwriting but with a beautiful, legible, and, as it turns out, standard … Continue reading →

I’ve been complaining about the horror of open-plan offices for some time. I firmly believe that the only people in favor of them are short sighted managers looking to reduce costs. Still, I keep seeing articles assuring me that, yes … Continue reading →

Kontra has a nice quote from Vernon Sanders Law: "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." — Kontra (@counternotions) May 30, 2016

Charlie Stross was browsing through an old, recently declassified OSS manual on sabotaging the enemy’s production and started wondering about how you could apply the same principles to sabotage your competitors by injecting bad policies into their environment. He lists … Continue reading →