July 2008
14 posts
From the Positivity Blog
1. The 80/20 rule.
This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule – also known as The Pareto Principle – basically says that 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities.
So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think.
You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on– a...
“Tell Mike congratulations on his new place.”
– Mom
June 2008
6 posts
p.s.
rach:
coming back to new york after even a few days away feels to me like slipping into a satin bathrobe, even when it is muggy, even when it is dark before three, even when it is hard. for better or worse, i think i have really found the place in the world that feels the most like home to me, in that i don’t notice it anymore. back in the desert, everything was bolder and clearer and cleaner,...
“Music is a voyage that begins in the artist’s mind and ends in yours.”
– Ad for Altec speakers on the inside front cover of the January 1974 issue of Playgirl (via jakoblodwick)
“I’m the worst wife in the cooking department. I always thought you can’t be good...”
– Kate Beckinsale [Sun UK] (via peterwknox)
Tonight I waited 5 hours to meet David Sedaris at the Union Square Barnes & Noble. I bought two copies of his new book, one for myself and one for my Dad. (I plan on shipping it to him for Father’s Day.) He personalized each copy and for my Dad’s copy he wrote this:
To David:
I am so glad you weren’t impotent.
-David Sedaris
Lolz.