May 2011
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My Staycation: Memorial Day Weekend
Best Staycation Ever. Here’s the recipe:
Ingredients: sunscreen, water, canvas bags, a credit card, some bagels, and good attitude
Friday Afternoon (summer fridays!) and Night: lunch w/ a hilariously dressed Murray Hill master and some wine, purchasing beautiful oak drawers from people around the corner who are moving, solid and low-key evening out in brooklyn with a good friend who finds...
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“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come to you;...”
– Winnie the Pooh
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Etiquette: The Ballet
I’m off to the ballet this afternoon for the first time in awhile, and I realized I don’t know if I’m supposed to dress up, or if it’s weird to bring my binoculars, or generally anything about the show. So, I looked up Lincoln Center FAQs, and here’s what I learned about applause:
When do I applaud?
Applause is the way for the audience to greet or show...
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Wow! A $10,000 real life treasure hunt!! →
These guys:
hid a treasure in NYC and gave clues to find it! And not just ANY treasure…. $10,000! We Lost our Gold uses videos and Twitter to give clues to where the money is hidden, and to get folks out and about in the city. I’m very interested to learn more about how this game has played out and figure out why now, almost a year later, the treasure still has not been found. Who...
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Grandma Asked: Why is the Bronx THE Bronx and...
The Bronck family was a wealthy family living on many of the Harlem river’s surrounding acres. Jonas Bronck, the family patriarch, was a narcissistic man and wanted to name everything after himself. Thus, around 1639, the river became Bronck’s river. Once the Bronck’s started croaking and immigrants other than Swedes (Irish, German, Italian, Jewish….) settled more heavily...
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“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see...”
– Martin Buber
A friend of mine shared this quote, and I found it both meaningful and provocative. While it resonates with my own philosophies (as amorphous as they often feel), it’s a huge task to always be eager to forge ahead. Regardless, it’s important to strive for and keep in mind...
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Social Media + Philanthropy = (xx OR xy) →
A recently published study shows that men and women give differently both in their motivations and in their categories of support. Big surprise that women give more to breast cancer and bullying and men give more to prostate cancer and the Tea Party, and that everyone feels cause fatigue when they’re hit over the head with anything.
So what makes autism special?
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Sure, be there in 20. →
Awesome bike sharing program from my alma mater. Wouldn’t work everywhere, but especially for college campuses, this is a winner.
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Thoughts going into today's Find the Future
Many of you have been following (in one way or another) my thoughts and learnings leading up to tonight’s Find the Future at the New York Public Library. I feel the need to make a statement before it all begins, so here goes:
What I think will be most interesting on a micro level is how people cooperate to compete. So many games are about working together when it’s convenient and then...
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Game On: Hundreds Spend the Night at the Library... →
Great teaser from WNYC!
McGonigal, who is the author of “Reality is Broken” and an alumna of Fordham College at Lincoln Center, said that her team worked with library curators for six months to identify 100 objects, or treasures — like the Declaration of Independence and the stuffed animals that inspired A.A. Milne to write his Winnie the Pooh series — that would be part of the...
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