Wear Your Self Out, A Blog

Positive Intelligence

March 11, 2012

One of my uber-smart friends sent me to the Harvard Business Review to read something unrelated to my daily life. I did the usual poking around on the site and thought this was worth sharing, from an article called Positive Intelligence, by Shawn Achor:

Paradise by the Computer's Light

February 13, 2012

Here at the Musewear offices we like music. And not just because the word itself comes from the Greek word for muse (originally the word “mousike” referred to any art or science governed by the Muses).

For the Love of Friends

January 15, 2012

I often say, mostly to myself, that while I am aware I will get sick and crumble, or suffer some kind of freak accident or violence, what I most want is to not DIE ALONE.

We like this idea of Contributory Consumption

January 8, 2012

Simon Mainwaring recently wrote a book called "We First" and his Big Idea is this: companies and consumers should make decisions about what and how they sell and buy with an eye toward common prosperity.

The (bad, sad) time between books

January 8, 2012

Today, more accurately tonight, a mistake will be corrected.

It's 2012, Lower Your Expectations.

January 1, 2012

"The secret to Happiness is to lower your expectations." Quoted from Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet's business partner, who, one would guess, is a pretty clever and wealthy guy.

"Did You Just Call Me A Fiend?"

September 28, 2011

“Goodnight love, sweet dreams.”
“Good night, you too.”

“Did you lock the door?”
“Yes, earlier.”

“Are these windows closed?”
“Yeah. Why? Do you want them open? It’s pretty cold.”

Seeking Higher Ground

August 28, 2011

For days now anybody with ties to the East Coast of the US has been making Hurricane preparations.

Dirty Fabulous Feet

August 2, 2011

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. 
--Goethe

Who's Your Muse

July 30, 2011

“I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.” 
--John Updike

Have you a muse?

TMI

July 29, 2011

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
--Jewish Proverb

“But when I’m wearing these Musewear flip flops, nobody can see what’s on them!”

Exactly. A little sharing is a good thing, too much sharing is, well, too much.