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things I think about
This name doesn't work. Your brain looks ahead of the sense and assumes there's a rhyme in there somewhere - it's looking for 'spude dude'. When it's not there the cognitive brakes spin you out.
It should be called Spud Buddy. Or Potato Mate.
general lessons from association football
Two quotes from The Numbers Game (which is sort of like Moneyball for football)
"Hire with care but integrate deliberately and fast."
"Often only desperation, marginality and a lack of money can create the conditions that support innovation."
things that have happened
A small mental collection I have: Posters Caused By Things That Have Happened.
I first noticed it at one of those storage places, like Big Yellow Storage. There was a poster on the wall warning you of all the things you were not allowed to do in your storage unit. Sleep, run a business, keep goats, grow mushrooms. And I realised that the poster was really a record of all the things that people must once have done, which then needed to be banned.
The signs at the Grindleford Station Cafe are the same. Every incident causes a sign.
I mention it because Chris pointed out another on twitter:
now, these are good posters
There's a lovely little show of Tom Eckersley posters at the London College of Communication.
more genius from the billboard business
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