You are what you wear

A design critic (Design critic! What a great job!) offers advice on how to make a good first impression. This includes how you dress and confidence. Although this was one do the most interesting (and true) parts:

It is said that we are all three different people: the person we think we are (the one we have invented), the person other people think we are (the impression we make) and the person we think other people think we are (the one we fret about).

I also like what he says about the “power of postcards.” I should start sending postcards — kind of an exercise in randomocity, if you will. Just something to brighten someone’s day. This will, of course, require collecting some addresses … And stamps.

NetFlix may soon rival Google among great places to work. Their vacation policy? Take whatever you want. Well, as long as your work is done. There isn’t really a way to make this work in journalism — not the way it’s set up at NetFlix — but it does point out how flexible schedules benefit everyone. And that’s where more thought is required.

ODDS & ENDS
• I was intrigued by men taking their new bride’s last name, or combining their last names into something new. And I was disappointed by the problems that has created.
• Two more blogs to watch: kottke.org (been around forever, I know) and designobserver.org.
• Creative marketing from Nissan: Leave a set of keys where they’ll be found and this note on the keychain: “If found, please do not return. My next generation Nissan Altima has Intelligent Key with push-button ignition, and I no longer need these.”