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“Crowds at the Kumbh Mela await their turn to bathe in the Ganges. Allahabad, India. Photo © Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos”
McCurry, in my opinion, is the world’s greatest living photographer. More from his Simple Act of Waiting series.
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Stunning photo of earth from space. CLICK TO ENLARGE! Makes a great wallpaper.
EDIT: The photo is a composite of two photos. Still makes a great wallpaper though.
BUS YOUR OWN TRAY: On the Virtue of Brevity in Email
BUS YOUR OWN TRAY: On the Virtue of Brevity in Email
Long emails are, more frequently than not, the worst. When you send someone an email, you make a demand on their time. If you use more words than necessary, you waste their time. Sure we’re talking maybe a fraction of a minute, but given the number of emails the average person sends in a day those fractions add up pretty quick.
This conflicts with an older style of correspondence that associated pleasantries with tact. Tactful emails now are efficient, and pleasantries are a waste. People accustomed to pleasantries see their absence as rude, or a sign of being cross. They infer a tone that isn’t there, while people accustomed to brevity know how difficult it can be to ascertain tone from an email.
If you want to keep the software and services around that you enjoy, do what you can to make their businesses successful enough that it’s more attractive to keep running them than to be hired by a big tech company.
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Hard boiled eggs for the @topspinmedia office. @iancr buys. I cook. (Taken with Instagram)
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The Most Important Tech Company You've Never Heard Of
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