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Oct. 17th, 2016
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Herizen Guardiola for Teen Vogue: Young Hollywood 2016
“I was raised on magic and action and going to the Renaissance fair. I’d love to act in movies where I’m wielding a sword.“
darlenealdersons:
Herizen Guardiola for Teen Vogue: Young Hollywood 2016
“I was raised on magic and action and going to the Renaissance fair. I’d love to act in movies where I’m wielding a sword.“
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dimir-charmer:
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dimir-charmer:
James Tiberius “sunk all his points into improvised weaponry and bluff” Kirk, space bard.
Commander “charisma is a dump stat” Spock, space wizard
Lieutenant “wait, can we use supplemental materials for this?” Sulu, space duelist
Lieutenant Nyota“lockpick and detect trap are literally always useful skills guys come on” Uhura, space theif
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “definitely going to blow the party up with that flask of Greek fire” Scott, space alchemist.
Ensign Pavel “Does not know how to tank” Chekov, Barbarian
And finally, to round out the party, Leonard “I can’t believe not a single one of you motherfuckers took a single rank in healing, I should pick rogue just to spite you,” McCoy, space cleric.
dimir-charmer:
dimir-charmer:
dimir-charmer:
dimir-charmer:
dimir-charmer:
dimir-charmer:
dimir-charmer:
James Tiberius “sunk all his points into improvised weaponry and bluff” Kirk, space bard.
Commander “charisma is a dump stat” Spock, space wizard
Lieutenant “wait, can we use supplemental materials for this?” Sulu, space duelist
Lieutenant Nyota“lockpick and detect trap are literally always useful skills guys come on” Uhura, space theif
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery “definitely going to blow the party up with that flask of Greek fire” Scott, space alchemist.
Ensign Pavel “Does not know how to tank” Chekov, Barbarian
And finally, to round out the party, Leonard “I can’t believe not a single one of you motherfuckers took a single rank in healing, I should pick rogue just to spite you,” McCoy, space cleric.
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copperbadge:
daroos replied to your post:skipthedemon replied to your post:Sleepy…
Is Decisive a book? Is it a book I need? It sounds like a book I need.
Decisive is a book, and I firmly believe that everyone of our generation should at least try reading it.
Chip and Dan Heath are two terrifyingly intelligent brothers who have written a series of books that are, really, at base, how to hack the brain of yourself and everyone else around you in healthy, positive ways – they’re not quite self-help books, more like…guidebooks to adulting. Two of their books, Made to Stick and Switch, are primarily about business, but have personal applications also – they’re both about effecting permanent change, or knowing when to make a change.
Decisive is about techniques for making better decisions and how to give yourself more options when faced with a choice. For example, they briefly talk about making a pro/con list (and the history of it – apparently Ben Franklin really loved them) but then they talk about moving beyond the pro/con list to more sophisticated techniques that help to exclude emotional bias.
Like, they talk about “hedging”, where you give yourself a taste of each option or you hedge your investment in a choice. If my main concern was whether I’d be happy in Boston or whether I’d want to move back to Chicago, I might “hedge” by putting most of my stuff in cheap pod storage, going to Boston with just the basics, and sending for my stuff in six months if I was still happy there, or moving back if I found I wasn’t. If I wanted to make the move permanent, I wouldn’t pay significantly more than if I’d moved six months earlier, and if I didn’t, I wouldn’t pay to move at all, just a sort of convenience fee for storage.
And just thinking about hedging helped me say “No, I don’t need to do that. I know I’ll like the city, I just don’t know about the job” which helped me focus on the real concerns I have as opposed to the extraneous stuff.
Last time I used the book’s techniques, I was trying to decide whether to leave my job (because it was moving south and would make my commute hard) or move south to be closer to it, and I used their “set a deadline” advice. Rather than immediately choosing one or the other, I decided to jobsearch for six months, and if I hadn’t found anything, I’d stop jobsearching and start looking for apartments. It worked really well, and that’s how I ended up in this sweet condo I’ve got now. :D
Anyway, I strongly recommend all three books; I think they are exceptional for helping people cope with a very uncertain world. But Decisive has been the most directly useful to me in my personal life. Every time I’m faced with a decision of this agonizing, terrifying size, I re-read the book to try and find the best way to move forward. It always has something to offer that I’d forgotten about. :)
copperbadge:
daroos replied to your post:skipthedemon replied to your post:Sleepy…
Is Decisive a book? Is it a book I need? It sounds like a book I need.
Decisive is a book, and I firmly believe that everyone of our generation should at least try reading it.
Chip and Dan Heath are two terrifyingly intelligent brothers who have written a series of books that are, really, at base, how to hack the brain of yourself and everyone else around you in healthy, positive ways – they’re not quite self-help books, more like…guidebooks to adulting. Two of their books, Made to Stick and Switch, are primarily about business, but have personal applications also – they’re both about effecting permanent change, or knowing when to make a change.
Decisive is about techniques for making better decisions and how to give yourself more options when faced with a choice. For example, they briefly talk about making a pro/con list (and the history of it – apparently Ben Franklin really loved them) but then they talk about moving beyond the pro/con list to more sophisticated techniques that help to exclude emotional bias.
Like, they talk about “hedging”, where you give yourself a taste of each option or you hedge your investment in a choice. If my main concern was whether I’d be happy in Boston or whether I’d want to move back to Chicago, I might “hedge” by putting most of my stuff in cheap pod storage, going to Boston with just the basics, and sending for my stuff in six months if I was still happy there, or moving back if I found I wasn’t. If I wanted to make the move permanent, I wouldn’t pay significantly more than if I’d moved six months earlier, and if I didn’t, I wouldn’t pay to move at all, just a sort of convenience fee for storage.
And just thinking about hedging helped me say “No, I don’t need to do that. I know I’ll like the city, I just don’t know about the job” which helped me focus on the real concerns I have as opposed to the extraneous stuff.
Last time I used the book’s techniques, I was trying to decide whether to leave my job (because it was moving south and would make my commute hard) or move south to be closer to it, and I used their “set a deadline” advice. Rather than immediately choosing one or the other, I decided to jobsearch for six months, and if I hadn’t found anything, I’d stop jobsearching and start looking for apartments. It worked really well, and that’s how I ended up in this sweet condo I’ve got now. :D
Anyway, I strongly recommend all three books; I think they are exceptional for helping people cope with a very uncertain world. But Decisive has been the most directly useful to me in my personal life. Every time I’m faced with a decision of this agonizing, terrifying size, I re-read the book to try and find the best way to move forward. It always has something to offer that I’d forgotten about. :)
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jewelsjaywrites:
If you are a role player who is 21+, could you please reblog this? its for science
jewelsjaywrites:
If you are a role player who is 21+, could you please reblog this? its for science
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teambicycletouring:
Item 14. IMAGE or GIF. Is that…is that an edible Eye of Sauron? Yes, it is.
Presenting.. the Pie of Sauronthe one tart ring to rule them all
teambicycletouring2015:
Does @copperbadge know about this Pie of Sauron?
Oh man it looks amazing, but while I am pretty sure those are plums, at first I thought they were pickled beets and I nearly gagged. :D
okay now I know that it’s the eye of sauron I can see it…
But I just thought someone made a really wonky vagina pie.
Oops.
copperbadge:
caffienekitty:
baradduh:
teambicycletouring:
Item 14. IMAGE or GIF. Is that…is that an edible Eye of Sauron? Yes, it is.
Presenting.. the Pie of Sauronthe one tart ring to rule them all
teambicycletouring2015:
Does @copperbadge know about this Pie of Sauron?
Oh man it looks amazing, but while I am pretty sure those are plums, at first I thought they were pickled beets and I nearly gagged. :D
okay now I know that it’s the eye of sauron I can see it…
But I just thought someone made a really wonky vagina pie.
Oops.