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this is my favourite DailyPuppy in a while jsyk.

10 New Years Resolutions For Designers:

1. Choose better problems to solve

Designers are, by definition, problem-solvers. And the world has never been so blessedly full of problems. Our infrastructure is rotting, the economy is crap, Wall Street is awash with criminals and millions of people can’t get basic medical care, food and water. We don’t need another app to rate your sandwich. We don’t need to know when we go to sleep and get up. We do not need digital farms. We need real ones. We need fresh water. We need solutions for the apocalypse.

^trying to decide how much of this article applies for writers.

from Paul Campos:

It’s a story that includes $165,000 in debt, and constant daily harassment from creditors, including threats to the caller’s father (who co-signed one loan) to garnish his social security payments, and working stocking shelves in the middle of the night at a supermarket for nine dollars an hour, and then stringing together a Dickensian existence by grading papers written by convicts for $17 an hour, and working another 20 hours a week at Starbucks for the health benefits, all the while hoping to somehow get to a point where the caller will be able to one day marry her fiancé, also a college graduate, who is also doing low-paid temp work with zero benefits or job security in these United States.

from Brad Hicks:

I am, for the second time in two years, convinced that I live in a country full of superstitious, primitive, blood-thirsty savages.

Ohh and, if you don't already hate Paypal forever? I can fix that for you.