Leadership in the New Year
— David Griffith (@griffithd50) December 31, 2017
As we enter into 2018, I have been reflecting on leadership. Upon review, I have... https://t.co/3NGZXdJ6sM
Goodbye, Maggie, and thank you. https://t.co/TU9Dw2htPY
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 30, 2017
Five categories of inconsiderate gifts. https://t.co/2iX0piX438
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 26, 2017
I reread this every year. https://t.co/WGfCxfmjQj
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 26, 2017
Among my many regrets are all the exclamation points I’ve used in my life. Except for those in the first chapter of GEORGE & LIZZIE. I think those are ok.
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) December 26, 2017
‘Merry’: https://t.co/4QFhFQbk6f
— Daring Fireball (@daringfireball) December 26, 2017
Never ignore someone who cares for you, because someday you'll realize you've lost a diamond while you were busy collecting stones.
— banksy (@thereaIbanksy) December 25, 2017
BY POPULAR DEMAND the word was “Drifting” and it was ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX POINTS. http://pic.twitter.com/k4ZhihzVsf
— Ali Watkins (@AliWatkins) December 25, 2017
Google Reader ran on 1/100th of the work it takes to do this every year http://pic.twitter.com/QxZ8s7tV6V
— ᎷᎪᎢᎢ ᎻᎪᏌᏩᎻᎬY (@mathowie) December 25, 2017
We're open today, Christmas Eve Day, from 8-3! Come get your omelettes. http://pic.twitter.com/JtcnKYrPqG
— Cafe Patachou (@CafePatachou) December 24, 2017
Merry Christmas friends! I hope you all have a wonderful day! So blessed to have so much love in my life. 🎄🥂🙏🎅🏻👧🏼👦👦💃🏼❄️☃️
— Holly Betz (@mombetz) December 25, 2017
My son's a little worried that Santa may skip our house because he was sometimes bad this year. I explained that Santa uses an exponentially weighted moving average to compute your goodness score, so more recent datapoints dominate and he's probably fine.
— John Rauser (@jrauser) December 24, 2017
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes.
— banksy (@thereaIbanksy) December 22, 2017
Including you.
Libraries literally aren't just a place to obtain books for free. They're one of the few public spaces left in our society where you're allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.
— long tweets mcgee (@_Amanda_Killian) December 21, 2017
Every time you say something nice about Bitcoin, a blockchain entrepreneur gets his wings. https://t.co/Ssiyo65M99
— Matt Heimer (@MatthewHeimer) December 22, 2017
If you play “Bicycle Race” by Queen on December 31st at 11:57:40 the bike bells will ring right as the clock strikes midnight. Start off your new year right.
— Bicycle Lobby (@BicycleLobby) December 22, 2017
When a $150K/yr senior engineer doesn’t realize it’s their job to help the junior engineer become a senior engineer, and the junior engineer leaves and brings millions of dollars of value to a different company, how much does that senior eng really cost your company? https://t.co/5EK4I3Rgz5
— Moishe Lettvin (@moishel) December 22, 2017
There is a sci-fi story to be written about using a rowhammer like attack to escape the sandbox of the simulation we may be living in. Rhythm magic.
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) December 21, 2017
“So your new carol is just eight verses of you demanding figgy pudding with increasing hostility.”
— Nic Sampson (@NicSampson) December 20, 2017
“That’s right.”
“And it’s called We Wish You A Merry Christmas?”
“Yes”
“Buts it not really about Christmas is it? It’s mostly about figgy—“
“—figgy pudding yeah.”
OMG truth, “It often feels like Google is run by a bunch of teenagers who think the rules don’t apply to them because they’re in the gifted program at school.” @gruber
— Dane Muldoon (@ledenmcleden) December 21, 2017
Software engineering pro-tip:
— Chris Albon (@chrisalbon) December 20, 2017
Do not, I repeat, do not deploy this week. That is how you end up debugging a critical issue from your parent's wifi in your old bedroom while your spouse hates you for abandoning them with your racist uncle.
Everyone on the street today looks like they're understudying for someone else.
— Julian Fleisher (@JulianFlei) December 20, 2017
After you finish your story about #bitcoin, you and I should do some kind of #bitcoin forum panel discussion where we talk about the future of #bitcoin #bitcoin
— Matt Heimer (@MatthewHeimer) December 20, 2017
Also: Malkovich Malkovich. https://t.co/jNI4Elg3Xe
"Virtue is what you do when nobody is watching. The rest is marketing"@nntaleb https://t.co/chSmsJznbN
— Xavier Faure (@XFaure) December 20, 2017
Very few fields require as much emotional labor as education. If teachers’ wellbeing isn’t fostered, our students’ success is jeopardized.
— Amy Fast, Ed.D (@fastcrayon) December 19, 2017
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This is a very exciting day in Park Tudor history! The chicken coop has arrived in the Lower School Learning Garden! 🐔🐔🐔 http://pic.twitter.com/rE9QjybVn2
— Park Tudor (@parktudor) December 19, 2017
This is clearly the shield-generator bunker on Endor. https://t.co/TwQlQMBwtC
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) December 19, 2017
People don’t want advice. . . . They want to keep doing the same thing but get different results. https://t.co/4dd6eFuVoz via @leadershipfreak
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 19, 2017
Another great actor who wasted his life on drugs and alcohol http://pic.twitter.com/66RzeeZ1BD
— World and Science (@WorldAndScience) December 18, 2017
Compromise: how about a Hampton Inn? https://t.co/q4BT0F5RhJ
— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) December 18, 2017
He's shocked shocked! https://t.co/PcH0i2URpf https://t.co/YcShQGzl3H
— scripting.com (@davewiner) December 19, 2017
All quiet @WillistonNS but for the sounds of #WillistonBuilds #2018andbeyond http://pic.twitter.com/pnLLnpk0X2
— RWHill (@Hill3Williston) December 18, 2017
May the Lord grant us the wisdom to seek that which is worthwhile and to love, not with our words but with our actions.
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) December 17, 2017
Even the Tax Foundation, which has been hugely (and implausibly) bullish on tax cuts, is now predicting less than 0.2% per year additional growth from the #TaxScam https://t.co/xja9kwy0Qd
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) December 18, 2017
I would go as far to say that within a few years, charging tuition (and requiring students to take on debt) for ANY postsecondary program that's 12 months or less will be viewed as a negative market signal i.e., What? No one's willing to back an ISA for this program? Forget it. https://t.co/nzirJ22N8Z
— Ryan Craig (@ryancraiguv) December 17, 2017
Super Mario Bros. on Marimba (with 4 Mallets) by Aaron DeWayne https://t.co/k5osFaZcRM
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 18, 2017
27th APRIL shall be my fiftieth wedding anniversary. About a year after marriage I bragged to my wife, "I am a good man. I have given you a lot of freedom." Her simple answer was, "Tell me where men get their freedom to give to women so that I can go there and get it myself."
— Timothy Njoya (@timothynjoya) December 16, 2017
New Star Wars Film, 1980: rushing to see it because I can’t wait. New Star Wars Film, 2017: rushing to see it because I can’t wait and also because I want to be able to resume using the Internet.
— Andy Ihnatko (@Ihnatko) December 15, 2017
Twice today I saw someone receive a gift from someone only to criticize it afterwards. Be happy they thought of you. I don’t care if it’s a dumb gift. You crossed their mind long enough for them to get you something and that’s more than most of us deserve.
— Under the Mistle-D'OH! (@BurnTheBarrel) December 14, 2017
Second-time CEO leverage:
— Jason M. Lemkin 🦄 (@jasonlk) December 14, 2017
For me at least,
Founder ownership after Series A, first time: 6%
Founder ownership after Series A, second time: 66%
Staircase wit. https://t.co/HW3lZ6Ewb0
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 14, 2017
‘There are people who are here for the scene, there are people who are here for the cause, and there are people who are here for the craft.’ https://t.co/Vj3AYTasUp
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 13, 2017
Miles Bailey ’94 will assume the position of dean of admissions at Westminster School beginning in July 2018. The current dean, Jon Deveaux P’14, ’16, will become senior advancement director in Westminster’s Advancement Office on July 1. Full story here https://t.co/ZuSaELfMuQ http://pic.twitter.com/r5jlFyAa4a
— Westminster School (@WestminsterCT) December 13, 2017
Pre-k and early ed "pay." And it's the right thing do. So, it's smart and right. Nice combo. https://t.co/uy9YJpbcva
— Ken Levit (@kenlevit) December 12, 2017
Almost 29 years ago, Sergeant Al Powell helped save dozens of lives after being sent to investigate a prank call at Nakatomi Plaza.
— Channel 4 (@Channel4) December 11, 2017
As we do every year, we honour his bravery by showing the documentary Die Hard, this Sunday at 10pm http://pic.twitter.com/hfUscMFmyw
Four stages of my New Yorker cover from last week: Scribble > Rough > Finished Drawing > Coloured Artwork. http://pic.twitter.com/rASFcLsf9R
— Tom Gauld (@tomgauld) December 11, 2017
A key plot point in Rogue One is that a set of data files is too large to send via email.
— umami skeleton (@Merman_Melville) December 11, 2017
Here’s the riff @BillWalton https://t.co/UHwdxo9uIl
— Ken Levit (@kenlevit) December 9, 2017
We saw @Nancy_Pearl at McCaw Hall last night. She was awesome! @tomhanks was also there.
— Adam W. (@TheBirdiePutt) December 7, 2017
"Don't speak on behalf of the invisible, just pass the mic."
— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) December 7, 2017
~ @DrSuad
The labor market doesn’t pay you for the useless subjects you master; it pays you for the preexisting traits you signal by mastering them. https://t.co/QrFoPcw0o8
— Fred Swaniker (@FredSwaniker) December 7, 2017
Today and every day . . . . https://t.co/yx3yVj2S8m
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 8, 2017
"Dad, wake up, it's SNOWING!!!" said every child in Baton Rouge this morning. http://pic.twitter.com/EaNtr3Lvsy
— Rod Dreher (@roddreher) December 8, 2017
Whilst I do strongly applaud Time's Person of the Year decision, I think one very important contender has been forgotten about http://pic.twitter.com/sKNB7br8Ly
— Jessie Thompson (@jessiecath) December 6, 2017
Casey in 2013: “My opinions are uncontroversial and include so many caveats that they are almost meaningless.”
— Justin (@onlytruejustin) December 8, 2017
Casey in 2018: “The majority of Earth’s population using Celsius for air temperature are goddamn fools. Come at me.”
How about that. http://pic.twitter.com/5zFR29TZOW
— Tammy Lively (@tammylively) December 6, 2017
http://pic.twitter.com/KSOLLo7Uup
— Disambiguation (@BigSpiderBack) December 6, 2017
The four questions to ask when serving on a nonprofit board https://t.co/WtzWQUuWKp via @McKQuarterly
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 7, 2017
130,000 words. 250 pages. 24 chapters. One incredible era. Rocket Jump: #Quake and the Golden Era of First-Person Shooters, only @shacknews. https://t.co/m3WMSKuNg7 #gamedev #QuakeChampions #DOOM #videogames http://pic.twitter.com/CIixo3uKSF
— David L Craddock (@davidlcraddock) December 5, 2017
Like everything else about Android, I honestly have no idea. https://t.co/DiBMFldozb
— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) December 6, 2017
Want an exercise in decluttering? Move offices. #bin2010 #blogindiana #tbt http://pic.twitter.com/zfQhLBYjit
— Cassie Dull (@cassdull) December 5, 2017
The optimists do more because they have the courage to look beyond the bend. http://pic.twitter.com/veXqMiUFfq
— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) December 5, 2017
Patience is not about waiting,but how we act when things take longer than we expect
— Paulo Coelho (@paulocoelho) November 12, 2017
@parktudor #HourOfCode2017 #HourofCode #ComputerScience http://pic.twitter.com/w2KM9RpPzi
— Jamey Everett (@jeverettPT) December 6, 2017
9 common-sense rules for getting the most out of meetings https://t.co/jRJiEzQMD1 via @TEDTalks
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 6, 2017
Thank you @ParkTudor for your generous Christmas Basket donations and helping give so many #Indy families some extra Christmas cheer - pasta sauce, pancake mix, yams, green beans, and fruit cocktail will all be going into the bags of food this year! http://pic.twitter.com/mtNibR3QrD
— WestMin (@WestMin) December 4, 2017
Dirty Lorry / Truck Art http://pic.twitter.com/8gApR9c4nm
— Street Art (@GoogleStreetArt) December 4, 2017
Quarter http://pic.twitter.com/Zc7SQOi2MR
— Brannheim Steamroller (@bransonreese) December 5, 2017
"There have been architects who are geniuses – Michelangelo, Palladio, Frank Lloyd Wright. But a city is not the work of geniuses. It is the work of humble craftsmen and also the by-product of its own continuing conversation with itself. A city is a constantly evolving fabric"
— Roger Scruton Quotes (@Scruton_Quotes) December 4, 2017
Third-Grader Clearly Biting Off More Than He Can Chew At Elementary School Book Fair https://t.co/aOFRxqlEwg http://pic.twitter.com/1siVqaq9qN
— The Onion (@TheOnion) December 5, 2017
Einstein: "In matters concerning truth and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small; for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible.Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs"
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) December 5, 2017
Art historian Vincent Scully has died. Every New Yorker can appreciate his classic comparison of the demolished Penn Station with its hideous replacement: “One entered the city like a god. One scuttles in now like a rat.” https://t.co/M70DCxWqNf
— Clyde Haberman (@ClydeHaberman) December 1, 2017
My son 🙋🏽♂️was SO cute today, he asked me "dad are clouds candy?" 😍 I told him they were water. 💦 Then he asked "dad, what's Earth's defense system?" and then I remembered I don't have a son and he asked again his eyes now obsidian black "what is the defense system father"
— Omar Najam➡️🇵🇷⬅️ (@OmarNajam) November 28, 2017
That is stunning. Thank you for sharing! Did you take it? I want to share it. I ❤️our #Tulsa 🌅sunsets! https://t.co/zZjH08ZBoF
— Deborah Gist (@deborahgist) December 4, 2017
http://pic.twitter.com/C0YbOOSCtQ
— J.R. McGrail 📎 (@JRMcGrail) December 5, 2017
It’s time to bring my favorite holiday meme back http://pic.twitter.com/xvOKYf8DaH
— Merry Christmars🎄 (@MarsinCharge) December 2, 2017
Arab parents are never impressed.
— Khaled Beydoun (@KhaledBeydoun) December 3, 2017
Parent: How old are you?
Child: 23
Parent: When I was your age I was 24.
😂
Let’s all take a beat & internalize this quote from the transcendent James Baldwin: “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) December 3, 2017
First winter formal for G tonight. Boys reminded her of the old camp counselor advice..."be sure to leave room for Jesus!" 😂
— Holly Betz (@mombetz) December 2, 2017
Cobb would also like to remind you that parent teacher conferences are next week, and don't forget that next Friday is a half day.
— Gabe McFadden (@gabemcfadden) December 1, 2017
Blasting the Mariah Carey Christmas song on the way to school is a great way to start the day 😃🎄
— Holly Betz (@mombetz) December 1, 2017
The Librarian Action Figure herself explaining why the new action figure doesn’t shush. She’s too busy speaking out for what she believes in. https://t.co/LyD78APXio
— Archie McPhee (@ArchieMcPhee) December 1, 2017
Desperate times call for desperate actions. We've moved on to tackling ignorance, censorship, & anti-intellectualism. With a cape.
— Nancy Pearl (@Nancy_Pearl) December 1, 2017
The Librarian Action Figure herself explaining why the new action figure doesn’t shush. She’s too busy speaking out for what she believes in. https://t.co/LyD78APXio
— Archie McPhee (@ArchieMcPhee) December 1, 2017
tl;dr of @KatManalac's @ycombinator pitch advice: 30 seconds in, your audience should be able to guess how to implement/replicate your company. by the end, they should be able to pitch your company for you. #Slush17 http://pic.twitter.com/lZFDkLJKNG
— Yasyf Mohamedali (@yasyf) December 1, 2017
A group of Porter's students traveled to Anaheim, California this week. All to take part in the 2017 NAIS Student Diversity Leadership Conference. We can't wait to hear what they've learned. #NAISSDLC#SDLC2017 #mps #leaderslearnhere http://pic.twitter.com/FnFyolREa0
— Miss Porter's School (@missporters) November 30, 2017
Lasseter's arc of being a kindly, long tenured, widely admired male in a position of leadership who is revealed to be a villain in the 3rd Act is...alarmingly on brand. http://pic.twitter.com/Jew3rxEs02
— Leo In Crisis (@Uptomyknees) November 30, 2017
Heartbroken to share the news that Vincent Scully, the great architecture historian of Yale and the world—and my mentor—died tonight at 97.
— Paul Goldberger (@paulgoldberger) December 1, 2017
Generation Grumpy: Why You May Be Unhappy if You’re Around 50 https://t.co/99pdNwxq3F
— Douglas Allen (@DouglasHAllen) December 1, 2017
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