What I read today May 20
Confident People Do This Before They Say a Single Word, Inc. Magazine
The room starts reading you long before you open your mouth, and those early signals shape everything that follows. Walk in taller. Show up with intention. When you finally speak, make it about them. The words you say will carry so much more weight once you do.
“What aesthetic is this?” Elizabeth Goodspeed on the push to categorise visual culture, It’s Nice That
“To ask this question at all is a sign of a relatively new cultural assumption: that every image belongs to a coherent and nameable category. An image may once have been worth a thousand words. Now it needs just one.”
Reminds me of when Roz categorized my mismatched dinner plates as “cottage” even though they’ve been mismatched for almost 20 years, before there was an aesthetic tied to that.
I recieve workslop repeatably from certain collegues. It makes me not want to work with them, I doubt their discernment and creativity, and frankly makes more work for me. This article’s survey stats reinforce that it’s not just me.
“What’s more, 34% of people who receive workslop are notifying teammates or managers of these incidents, potentially eroding trust between sender and receiver. One third of people (32%) who have received workslop report being less likely to want to work with the sender again in the future.”
When Tattoos Meant Freedom: Jacci Gresham’s art finally gets the respect it deserves, Lux
The Daily Heller: The True Story of Indiana’s DIY Senior Cords, Print Mag
There was a girl at the 4th grade performance at Bellefontaine Elementary with school spirit pants with the mascot name and school hand drawn on them. I was enchanted that senior cords, bode’s reinvention of them, celebrities wear them and now little girls in small towns have pants whose history was inspired by them.