The Wire: Writing Into Your Arc. Important While this article about The Wire deliberately contains as few actual spoilers about the show as possible, it does contain numerous links to pages with information that will tell you critical spoiler information about the stories and fates of the show's characters. The article also contains language and links that are very much not safe for work.
Please proceed with caution on all fronts. In the time since I gallantly announced what makes a good blog, I’ve had time to think more about the qualities of work that endures. Not thinking just of personal blogs here, or solely in terms of the ways that we can improve online publishing and social media —although clearly these are areas that could stand some improvement. I’m talking about the extent to which some of those qualities that I mentioned in that article relate to broader ideas around all creative work and the process behind how it gets made well and consistently by an auteur who’s only incidentally a merchant.
Ok. The Scene. Blogs: CEO and COO Blog: Everything I Know About Business I Lear. The following email was sent to our employees today: Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010From: Tony Hsieh (CEO - Zappos.com)To: All Zappos EmployeesSubject: Amazon & Zappos, 1 Year Later Today is the 1 year anniversary of when we announced the marriage between Zappos and Amazon. It's hard to believe it's already been a year! I thought it'd be interesting to read through the original email that I sent out a year ago (Read it HERE) and comment on it to see whether things happened as planned and promised. Enjoy! Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009From: Tony Hsieh (CEO - Zappos.com)To: All Zappos EmployeesSubject: Zappos and Amazon Please set aside 20 minutes to carefully read this entire email.
Today is a big day in Zappos history. This morning, our board approved and we signed whats known as a definitive agreement, in which all of the existing shareholders and investors of Zappos (there are over 100) will be exchanging their Zappos stock for Amazon stock. ***[This has gone according to plan. Q: Will I still have a job? Inside Pixar’s Leadership.