estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
Another thing I worked on: Personal experiences for impersonal items
...In case you've been wondering what all the editorial hammer-and-nails sounds have been about.
I'm genuinely impressed by the smart people at P&G. They mean everything they say, particularly about ethics, and that's all too rare in business!
https://pgsignal.com/from-task-to-be-done-to-delightful-experience/
Anatomy of the Star Wars Logo (2013) https://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2013/05/anatomy-of-logo-star-wars.html
"In classical antiquity, yellow clothing was usually reserved for women. As a result, a man in yellow was deemed an effeminate reprobate with no regard for the social order." https://hyperallergic.com/529864/the-complex-history-of-yellow-a-mediocre-color/
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R.I.P. Mike Resnick
Mike Resnick, a major figure in science fiction, has died after a brief battle with "a very aggressive form of lymphoma" that was diagnosed in November. He was 77.
(Just one of many obits to come)
Style your Google Docs to look like WordStar https://userstyles.org/styles/130410/wordstar-customizable-theme-for-google-docs
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All told, U.S. airports are spending an estimated $70 billion to get their collective acts together. https://fortune.com/2020/01/07/the-case-for-designing-beautiful-airports-its-about-the-experience/
Chris Harvey is the man behind languagegeek.com, a site that provides keyboards and fonts in more than 100 Indigenous languages https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/indigenous-language-tool-geek-chris-harvey-1.5331234
"I'm cancer free. That's good." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
THINGS TO CHEER ABOUT
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-civil-procedure/index.html
Two introverts walk into a bar—and inspire a worldwide fellowship of quiet literary nerds. https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/Silent-Book-Club-women-reading-bar-San-Francisco-14954269.php
New studies help to explain how microbes in the gut can shape a host’s fear responses.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-microbiomes-affect-fear-20191204/
Oh, *that's* why no one fixes anything https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infotrax-gets-slap-on-the-wrist-after-being-breached-20-times/
Gift cards are so popular that they account for 55% of the average shopper’s entire annual gift budget. https://thehustle.co/what-happens-to-unused-gift-cards/
A new mathematical model predicts a knot’s stability http://news.mit.edu/2020/model-how-strong-knot-0102
The Secret Career of David Bowie’s Back-Up Singer https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/11/14/the-secret-career-of-david-bowies-back-up-singer/
>>At this point in the story, after three generations of faults, failures, and tribulations, who are the Jedi, and what do they actually stand for?
https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/2020/1/7/21054832/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-ending-meaning-jedi-order-voices-defeat-sith
If the subject interests you at all, I HIGHLY recommend Desperate Romantics
https://amzn.to/2QXbPrl
The extraordinary story of the legendary beauty Lizzie Siddal is both surprising and tragic, and led to a strange myth that persists today. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20200103-the-tragedy-of-arts-greatest-supermodel
Want to see some of what I've been up to lately?
My name isn't on this, but my fingerprints sure are.
Also, P&G's chief privacy officer _really_ impresses me.
>> “Beyond the formal legal compliance angles, the standard principle from which we at P&G make privacy decisions is, ‘How would the everyday consumer respond?’ Can we look them straight in the eye without blushing?”
https://pgsignal.com/the-privacy-principle-protecting-consumer-trust/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017