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It all came down to their development style, which may have been too much fun.
Why 'Silksong,' Team Cherry's Sequel to 'Hollow Knight,' Took So Long to Make - Bloomberg
“What is Jira?” Gibson said when I asked if they used the task-management application. “Is it a software?” Pellen said, adding that they’d briefly used Trello before their account was deactivated because they didn’t use it enough.
Why 'Silksong,' Team Cherry's Sequel to 'Hollow Knight,' Took So Long to Make - Bloomberg
“Steve Witkoff” responded with five emoji: two hands-praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags.
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic
The only person to reply to the update from Hegseth was the person identified as the vice president. “I will say a prayer for victory,” Vance wrote. (Two other users subsequently added prayer emoji.)
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic
Because, the fast parts learn; the slow parts remember.
Stewart Brand explains concepts of change, pace
Who is going to believe a Yelp post about a pizza-croissant or a glowing OpenTable dispatch about a $400 omakase sushi tasting knowing that its author might be a machine that can neither chew nor swallow?
How A.I. Imitates Restaurant Reviews - The New York Times
It’s like being the only kid in high school who has a car, right?
Check, Please: The Pete Wells Exit Interview - The New York Times
Some want to conjure up the flavors of a place they left behind, and consider their business a success if they win the approval of other people from the same place.
Pete Wells Will Leave Role as NYT Food Critic - The New York Times
People who consume a steady diet of bucket lists and viral videos rush from one restaurant to another so they post about it, to prove they were there. They go to places solely so they can put a photo of the viral egg sandwich or rainbow bagel on Instagram. Whether the sandwich or bagel tastes good is irrelevant; the point is to prove they were there.
Pete Wells Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. How Have They Changed? - The New York Times
Restaurants are turning into vending machines with chairs.
Pete Wells Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. How Have They Changed? - The New York Times
It is possible to own a mountain. No one owns the sea.
People who like the mountains think they are smarter and cooler than beach people. But they are wrong
Wenzi said, "The path of water is such that when it rises to the sky, it becomes raindrops; when it falls to the ground, it becomes rivers."
Mountains and Waters Sutra — Empty Bowl Zendo
The Virtuous Love Mountains and the Wise Love Waters
Key Concepts in Chinese Thought and Culture
“There is more to be softly fascinated by—something that maintains your attention and stops you from getting bored.”
Why I'll Always Be an Ocean Person
The heart of uselessness, I think, is love.
in praise of uselessness - by Ava - bookbear express
giving yourself permission to be useless means giving yourself permission to do what you love.
in praise of uselessness - by Ava - bookbear express
Getting found is about being findable.
Kernel | Chaos Theory
“We have become such a directed people. We can target what we want, thanks to the Internet. Put a couple of key words into a search engine and you find—with an irritating hit or miss here and there—exactly what you're looking for.”
Kernel | Chaos Theory
We have to optimize our response to luck so we can attract more luck.
Kernel | Chaos Theory
In other words: Never being alone isn’t never feeling alone. Being constantly connected or surrounded by people doesn’t make you any more at ease in your own skin.
Being Alone — Ankit Shah
If you work quickly, the cost of doing something new will seem lower in your mind.
Speed matters: Why working quickly is more important than it seems « the jsomers.net blog
Social media, in contrast, applies a lot more pressure on nonusers, at a much younger age and in a more insidious way.
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
Gen Z were the guinea pigs in this uncontrolled global social experiment. We were the first to have our vulnerabilities and insecurities fed into a machine that magnified and refracted them back at us, all the time, before we had any sense of who we were. We didn’t just grow up with algorithms. They raised us. They rearranged our faces. Shaped our identities. Convinced us we were sick.
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
When our public life becomes fragmented, ephemeral, and incomprehensible, it is a recipe for anomie, or normlessness.
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
Some people’s internal thermostats are generally set to discover mode, and they flip into defend mode only when clear threats arise. These people tend to see the world as full of opportunities. They are happier and less anxious.
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
Relationships within such networks are usually more disposable.
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood - The Atlantic
“Sundays are like the progressive rock of crosswords,” Mr. Kugelman adds. “I love 20-minute songs, and I love 21x21 grids.”
Feeling Possessive - The New York Times
The film's protagonist is China's national treasure and all the elements are Chinese, but why didn't we make such a film
'Kung Fu Panda' Hits A Sore Spot in China
Their differences are differences of emphasis and style -- and the failings that each may find in the other (or that even a sympathetic reader may find in both) come from their deep investments in voice, stance and attitude rather than in a particular set of ideas or positions.
Among the Believers - The New York Times
There's a tendency to ghettoize things that are important to us -- there's fiction, there's essays and criticism, there's politics -- and you can go and find journals about each of these things, but you can't go and find journals about all of those things."
Among the Believers - The New York Times
Taste hits different. It intrigues. It compels. It moves. It enchants. It fascinates. It seduces.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Appreciation is a form of taste. Creation is another.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Strip out the humanity, and there’s nothing but the transaction left.
The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships - The Atlantic
Tools like Zoom and FaceTime, useful for maintaining closer relationships, couldn’t re-create the ease of social serendipity, or bring back the activities that bound us together.
The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships - The Atlantic
You get it all served in uncomplicated, lack of friction, no obstacles and you no longer know how to deal with people.
The friendship problem - by Rosie Spinks
You need people very much but the very people that you need are the ones that can reject you.
The friendship problem - by Rosie Spinks
“Your face is Hmong,” my grandfather said, “but your mouth is American. When you forget me, I will have lost your heart, too. You will no longer be Hmong. This is why you must eat the squirrel stew. It’s all that we have left to give to you.”
We Learned to Fear Tiger and to Love Squirrel – Lisa Lee Herrick
At my grandparents’ house, we ate with our hands, which were the same hands we used to tear the animals apart: an intimate act that reminded us of the thin line between horror and beauty.
We Learned to Fear Tiger and to Love Squirrel – Lisa Lee Herrick
A menu is a window to the soul of the restaurant, and a QR code has no soul
The Restaurant QR-Code Menu Is Being Shown the Door - The New York Times
The more darts you throw at the wall, the better chance you have of hitting the bull's-eye.
I Used Resume Spammers to Apply for 120 Jobs. Chaos Ensued.
Mr. Sze described Wenwen’s restroom as “a little Narnia door” into his mind: While growing up in Taiwan, he sang these songs in karaoke rooms.
The Most Exciting Part of a Restaurant Is … the Bathroom? - The New York Times
It is an intimate look at what the restaurant is when nobody is watching. If the kitchen is the heart of the restaurant, the bathroom is the sexy birthmark that you don’t discover until the third date.
ExcuseMeHeresTheBathroom — Thomas Kemeny
The story of food doesn’t start at the farm and end at the table. There is a third and final stop in the progression that deserves to be appreciated.
ExcuseMeHeresTheBathroom — Thomas Kemeny
The bathroom “is a place where you can express another side of how you want the story of your restaurant to be told,” she said.
The Most Exciting Part of a Restaurant Is … the Bathroom? - The New York Times
“Taking pictures of the food is so overdone,” Mr. Romano said. “You don’t want to seem like a TikToker taking pictures of every course or dish. But when you go to the bathroom, no one is judging you. You can escape.”
The Most Exciting Part of a Restaurant Is … the Bathroom? - The New York Times
“There is more ownership of the whole space of the restaurant.”
The Most Exciting Part of a Restaurant Is … the Bathroom? - The New York Times
“My whole job with the place is not just serving Iranian food,” she said. “I am there presenting the culture, the music.”
The Most Exciting Part of a Restaurant Is … the Bathroom? - The New York Times
It’s easy enough to dwell on the mall’s dilapidation and loss, which are devastating and real. But in doing so, you risk missing the life that inevitably has come to fill in the gaps.
The Very Last Dumpling Restaurant in the East Broadway Mall - Eater
I retreat to the lower floor to see if there are signs of intelligent life at the food stalls that disrupt the main drag between the Michael Kors and overpriced candles.
Do American Teens Still Need the Mall? - Eater
Can we adapt to a new idea of the mall, the way old maritime warehouses turned into loft-living for gentrifiers?
Can anything replace the mall?