Companies were getting a lot tougher on labor contracts these days; Hack had heard stories. At Adidas, if you quit your job and your replacement wasn't as competent, they sued you for lost profits.
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was
And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when...
After a while, he sat. She leaned her head on his shoulder. She felt very close to him. I promise not to turn you into my thought slave, she said, and felt him smile a little. But she had thought abou...
Words aren’t just sounds or shapes. They’re meaning. That’s what language is: a protocol for transferring meaning. When you learn English, you train your brain to react in a particular way to particul...
That’s what’s happening if you’re getting all your news from one place. If you stop listening to someone the second you hear a word or phrase you’ve been taught belongs to the enemy, like environment...
That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
Of course the Curies died. They identified ionizing radiation while bathing in it. There were risks involved in being your own guinea pig. But there was a long tradition of scientists doing just that:...
It was turning into a sly, anti–free market statement, and irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketi...
In the sciences, looking good was usually a negative. It implied you wasted time on outdoor activities instead of building something useful. Even using hair product or makeup implied misguided priorit...
I had to train myself to accept that not everybody works as hard as me. That what I consider unacceptably sloppy is actually an okay result, and it’s counterproductive to get into a whole thing where...
Everyone's broken, one way or another.
Your site isn't static. It's dynamically generated. Do you know what that means ?No.It means the site looks different to different people. Let's say you chose the poll option that said you're in favor...
She put the words back in the envelope, because fuck doing that again.
I just read them for fun.Dictionaries?Yes.That doesn't sound like fun. That sounds awful.Awful used to mean 'full of awe.' The same meaning as awesome. I learned that from a dictionary.He blinked.See?...
Civilizations rose and fell; what caused them to be remembered was not their contribution to knowledge or culture, not even the size of their empires, but rather how much force they exerted upon the l...
I hadn't known this about love: that you did not need to deserve it. I thought there was a set of criteria, like a good sense of humor and looks and wealth. You could compensate deficiencies in one ar...
Body parts telegraphed complaints from faraway places.