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“Organizations need structure. Markets and enterprises need rules. As successful entrepreneurial businesses grow, they often come to believe that new, complicated processes will undermine their culture. But systematization need not lead to bureaucratization, not if people understand what the rules are for and view them as legitimate.”

- Creating the Best Workplace on Earth - Harvard Business Review

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parislemon:

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(1999) Steve Jobs Introduces The World to WiFi

Just look at that response over something we take completely for granted now just 14 years later. 

Love the camera man over-the-shoulder as the way to show it on the big screen.

And the hula hoop — look ma, no wires! — is just a brilliant, Steve Jobs touch.

I remember the feeling of utter amazement the first time I took my laptop out onto the porch and had internet. It was astonishing. 

whitehouse:

Share this so your friends know about President Obama’s plan to fix our broken immigration system: http://at.wh.gov/kKKSb

While you’re at it, share this astonishing article from the New Yorker, wherein the ICE illegally deports a US citizen, mentally disabled at that, and walks him over the border, leaving him in Mexico in a jump suit with $3 to his name. After three months on the streets of Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, he is dropped off at a US Consulate where someone finally realizes his perfect English with a North Carolinan accent is a bit suspicious on a native Mexican, tracks down his brother (in the AIR FORCE), confirms his citizenship and re-issues him a new passport. 

And when he arrives in the US, a US citizen with a legal US Passport? He is detained again, and accused of forging a passport. 

The official responsible? Promoted. The agency issued a review and astonishingly found no mistakes. The case was settled for less than $200k, with no admission of wrong doing. Mark Lyttle still suffers from PTSD and his original mental illness.  

More people were deported in the last six years than in the 100 year period from 1892 to 1992. One million people. One percent of them - 10,000 - are estimated to be US Citizens deported illegally. 

This article disgusted me so much. “Political cover for immigration reform” has its limits, and we have crossed them. 

So screw you, #1, “Continue to strengthen border security.”

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/04/29/130429fa_fact_finnegan

Chandler just pointed out that Adobe CS2 (Released in 2005) is free on the Adobe site. That is awesome!

Emma in front of Brian Eno’s 77 Million paintings (at Café Rouge)

Well this is going to be a good time. 

Helayne and the Brandcenter board. (at VCU Brandcenter)

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Apple Raises $17 Billion in Record Debt Sale - NYTimes.com

This is like your spouse telling you over and over that you need to spend more time at home, and the minute you do, instantly berating you for not focusing on your career enough. Apple FINALLY succumbs to the completely-fabricated distraction of shareholder return, a fake issue trumped up by the financial industry for their own self-benefit, who then immediately turns around and berates Apple for not “focusing on product.”

Hell is the public markets. 

Come on over. Ill make you a cocktail in my sweet Fal Tor Pan Star Trek 3 Taco Bell highball glass. (at The Webbles)

Alice and Harry rehearsal dinner! (at Jo’s)

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YES. 

Sweet new T&Js bathroom (at Tom & Jerry’s)

Please tell me Derekg took his kids to work today.

librarysciences:

nope.

This happens to me every day. Maddening. 

I was literally sitting on the grass in Indio watching Portugal. The Man when my phone decided ti check me into Forrester Research in Midtown. A mystery for the ages. 

Balloon halo (at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival)