Just a little (link) love: Leia/Washington edition
November 21, 2019
You must be joking: Koalas have fingerprints so much like a human they’ve tricked CSIs
I don’t really understand how Gladwell’s response isn’t to listen to the people he hurt, who were already hurt, and do better. Instead he hides behind legality. Very Poor Form. Also, for me, his behavior is an object lesson in being very careful about giving copyright permission and control over interviews and quotes and recordings of your voice. People can and will take you out of context.
I took the Yours, Mine & Ours (or, just Ours) quiz to “Identify what’s most important to you and learn what could go wrong if it gets ignored.” I was disappointed in our quiz results, though. Even though it acknowledged we’re good at talking about or considering money, it just talked about how fighting about money is a big relationship killer. Well. Duh. That’s why we talk about money: so we don’t fight about it. I don’t know what I was expecting from a 6 question quiz though. What’d you get?
Leia/Washington
I will never not imagine Carrie Fisher delivering that last line.
Malcolm Gladwell is a consistently lazy writer/journalist/thought-piecer, and I wish responsible outlets would stop giving him such a platform.
I wonder if anyone has trained koalas to commit crimes for them.
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I read a couple of Malcolm Gladwell’s books and thought, “Okay, but so?” I feel like he never quite brought his point home. “There’s a tipping point” is, I guess, good to know–but what am I supposed to do with that knowledge? How can you tell when you’re at one, or nowhere near one, or past one? And so I stopped listening to or reading Malcolm Gladwell.
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None of the answers to that yours/mine/ours quiz matched us at all, so I didn’t bother giving them my email to get the results.
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Tha yours, mine, ours quiz is terrible. I gave up at question 3 about kids. Literally all options were about having kids at some point, and not one about “never kids”
That koala fingerprint article made me LOL! Thanks for brightening my day, Revanche. 🙂
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