Simply beautiful.
The importance of eating together with your co-workers is not negotiable, to me. It’s too important to be left to chance.
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At every company I’ve worked at in NYC the default method of lunch is to take it back to your desk and eat while reading some blog (or reading said blogs on iPhones while out at some restaurant.) It’s isolating and awful. Since then I’ve made it a personal policy to never eat at my desk. I love the idea of having a large, assigned communal eating area, especially for internet companies. We spend enough time as it is isolated from one another in a virtual environment, eating lunch remains one of the last forms of regular face to face contact. |
“Another amazing thing about Yemen is that it is one of the only places on earth where you see seven- to eight-story structures made solely from wood-beam and mud-brick architecture. That doesn’t occur in any other place. The highest buildings in New York prior to electricity were maximum four or five stories. It is just such an anomaly to have such tall residential structures that have existed in this format for hundreds of years.”
(via Photo Booth: Postcard from Robert Polidori: Yemen, 1996 : The New Yorker)
The Return of the Summer of White Tees
Since we ran our original “Summer of White Tees” last year, I’ve been getting about an email a day asking for it to return. I’ve finally caved.
Here’s how it works: we bulk-buy white t-shirts from Alternative Apparel. Then we sell them to you at less than half the retail price. This coming Monday, I’ll put up a purchase page. We’ll have crew necks and v-necks in white, and that’s it. Orders will only be open for ONE WEEK. Delivery will take 6-8 weeks, because they have to come to us before we can send them to you.
So, mark your calendars: Monday, it’s ON.
White tees are the way to go.
The six-day Marathon des Sables in the Sahara Desert, considered the toughest foot race on earth. Photo: Pierre Verdy
