Feb 21
The internet has changed the rules for a lot of things: dating, buying groceries, ordering takeout, etc. to the power of 10. But it hasn’t changed basic manners. Meaning, you still have to write thank you notes.
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Oct 04
Facebook has basically made remembering birthdays meaningless. With automatic reminders, it’s just as easy to wish a happy birthday to your own mother as it is to wish one to that random girl you think you maybe lived down the hall from you in the freshman dorms. But it doesn’t take much more effort to show that you’re really thinking of the people you actually care about. Here’s how:
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Sep 06
We’ve all done it. After a tough day at work or a long night of drinking, the gentle motion of the subway rocks you right to sleep, and the next thing you know, you wake up in the Bronx. It’s a frustrating problem, but one app developer thinks he has the solution: a motion-based alarm clock that wakes you up at your stop.
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Aug 31
For a sizable portion of American workforce the coffee shop has become the new office. That’s fine and dandy. But it doesn’t mean you can treat it like your personal studio.
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Aug 30
The Internet is not that hard. We all know that, right? But some people out there (probably duckface selfie-ing on Facebook right now) just aren’t very good at the Internet. They just don’t get it. They don’t know that Google answers any question, they can’t spell, they take too many selfies, they obliterate your feed with I love you’s to their girlfriend or boyfriend and worst of all, they do it too damn much by posting so often. This is why we can’t have nice things.
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Aug 30
That girl you grew up with and haven’t seen in four years does not want to like the Facebook page for the Kickstarter to support your band’s very first regional tour. Neither does anyone who isn’t your mother. So please please please please please please please please1 stop sending out carpet bombed requests that people like your page.
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Aug 14
My brain tickles itself when something brand new gets invented, like a smartphone, and how different habits and customs form in each culture around that new smartphone and a brand new form of etiquette specific to each country is created all over the world. Maybe in some countries they call more than they text. Maybe in other cultures they use WhatsApp over SMS. Maybe it’s e-mail. Maybe they adapt to technology’s limitations. Maybe in some hellish place, phones are used openly in movie theaters.
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Jul 03
The UK media is weirdly ablaze this morning over a story about a store attendant who flipped out when a customer refused to stop talking on her phone while at the checkout. But is that rude, or is it now socially acceptable?
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Jun 19
James Gandolfini, a terrific actor
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Jun 14
True story: When I was in middle school, my mother sat my brother and me down at the dining room table to give us lessons from Emily Post’s big blue bible called Etiquette. Fold your napkin when you leave the table. Start with the silverware on the outside and work your way in. A lot of those lessons still apply today. But you know what we don’t need? Those century-old tropes being applied to how we live our digital lives.
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