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The problem with “do what you love”
“According to this way of thinking, labor is not something one does for compensation, but an act of self-love. If profit doesn’t happen to follow, it is because the worker’s passion and determination were insufficient. Its real achievement is making workers believe their labor serves the self and not the marketplace.”
The Names They Gave Me
“Thank you for my name, mama.”
Drowning in money
“Instead of a steady flow sustained around the year by trees in the hills, by sensitive farming methods, by rivers allowed to find their own course and their own level, to filter and hold back their waters through bends and braiding and obstructions, we get a cycle of flood and drought. We get filthy water and empty aquifers and huge insurance premiums and ruined carpets. And all of it at public expense.”
Before and after
The slow and gradual process of gender transition, and how different that reality is from the crisp, sharply delineated “before and after” photos that are the common image.
The Naked Twine Game Jam
46 Twine games made over a weekend without using CSS modifications or Javascript.
Gun Home: the ultimate Gone Home DLC
Turning normal experiences of motherhood into depression
“Dr Spock told a generation of women that they didn’t need to learn how to look after their babies, that it was instinctive and that they knew more than they thought they did. He was completely wrong. ”
What Google knows about you
“We know Google collects the data. But what they do with the data we don’t exactly know. They might be using it for the best or the worst. Pessimists will think the latter, optimists will think Google will use it to build new great stuff for us which will make our lives better. Probably both are right.”
25 things a great character needs
Helpful advice for writers, especially number 17
Tumblr of the week: Cute animals, bad dates
Free game of the week: Catlateral Damage, a first person cat simulator
@25 things a great character needs. I am always scared with my characters that may end up just putting clone upon clone of myself on the page which would be detrimental to my health. I dont work like most general writing guides suggest I do and unfortunately I dont really get the science of it or even know the jargon, I have studied a little. However finding out about a prestigious author who once exclaimed they find it very hard to write was invaluable for me. I think if I was to write a guide it would be about one page describing nonchalantly what it was like for me, the experience. And good writers willing to share seem to know this.