VocabularyDictionary.Remove(“busy”)
Lately I’ve been giving a lot of thought and consideration to communication and the words I regularly use while talking with people I meet, clients, friends and family. I’ve come to realize I have a habit of picking up and overusing words that those around me overuse or go to as a crutch. As a result I use these phrases as a crutch as well when I don’t have a better thought to start or end a comment with.
So in short I’m making a conscious effort to push myself away from some of these and hope this post would force me further along. If you hear me use any of these, please just give me a tap on the shoulder or remind me.
- just
- actually
- quick
- busy
My fascination with letterpress & presses continues - Colosseo: Reimagining the Roman Coliseum with type
Office Parks Are Worse Than Suburban Sprawl - GOOD Blog
…500-foot driveways do not reduce rents in any obvious respect. Moreover, the suburban office park in its current form creates harmful externalities, by forcing people to drive to reach them even if they live nearby (thus increasing pollution and traffic congestion).
A stunning video demonstrating the letterpress process - Letterpress Coasters on Vimeo (via @syddesign)
Amway employees work at a company cafe in Taipei, July 31, 2009. Increasingly, corporations are providing employees with alternative work environments, or “agile” space, which evolved from the dot com revolution and describes how software designers sit at tables facing one another with their computers in order to collaborate. - Large, international corporations are doing away with cubicles. How will the shift affect workers and the quality of their work? - Opinion: On the death of the cubicle
