#CoolShit 03.13.20
What. A. Fukin. Week.
Felt like we were just getting beat up headline after headline after headline - Iโm OVER IT!
Iโm going back to what I do best - my happy place - sharing #CoolShit with you.
-Shelby
1000% accurate.
Hard workers may make better role models than geniuses
Makes sense to me. This is why athletes like Steph Curry & Leo Messi are so admired. They arenโt anywhere near as physical gifted as their counterparts, yet they show us that if youโre willing to put the hard work in, you can compete with even the most gifted - Iโm looking at you LeBron & Ronaldo.
In a series of studies, researchers found that young people were more motivated by scientists whose success was associated with effort than those whose success was attributed to innate, exceptional intelligence, even if that scientist was Albert Einstein.
Wingstop Pays Fans To Advertise For Them In Lieu Of OOH Budget
What I love most about this is that someone, in some meeting, had to say, โHow about we throw away what we KNOW works, and do something super weird?โ
Wingstop shifted its national out-of-home (OOH) budget for the first half of 2020 to a merch campaign that, through free sweatshirts, aims to turn fans into walking Wingstop billboards.
Jay Electronica FINALLY dropped his album
For those unfamiliar, the music world has been waiting 10 years for Jay Electronica to release his album. Iโm still listening through it as I type this but one thing is obvious - Jay is an artist. Even with just a handful of singles, and this brand new album he is still in my list of โbest rappers ever.โ Heโs smooth. Heโs complicated. Heโs smart. Go find it on whatever platform you use to listen to music and press play.
The size of this tree
This Skid Row pop-up beauty shop
Feeling special is an important part to feeling human.
โIt boosts up my self-esteem,โ says Denice Williams, a regular at this weekly event. โIt makes me feel more like a woman. [I feel] like a movie star.โ
And the creator of this pop-up is a very VERY special human
Raines was inspired to help the unhoused after a family tragedy: Her son passed away in an accident.
โI just was in a very dark and depressed place,โ she said. โI didn't find or have a purpose for my life. And so I was tired of crying every day, and waking up and saying, โwhy me?โ And I said, โlet me try to do something with this pain, find a purpose for my pain.โโโWhen I came out here, I'm like, โoh, my God, this is where all of me are. These are all the broken people.โ I felt at home.โ
So her son tragically dies, she gets super depressed, then decides to pour her soul into the folks no one cares about - unreal.
Dancing the watusi at Hollywood nightclub Whiskey-A-Go-Go, September 1964
These folks are JAMMINโ
If you like unique illustrations of celebs, follow @pasajerozero
I instantly dug his super infectious & unique illustration style.
I have NO idea what language this is in. I have NO idea what itโs about, but DAMN it sounds good.
Remember That Company With the $70K Minimum Wage? 5 Years On, the Results Suggest More Businesses Should Follow Suit
The headcount has doubled and the value of payments that the company processes has gone from $3.8bn a year to $10.2bn.
Your employees work harderโฆ
"Before the $70,000 minimum wage, we were having between zero and two babies born per year amongst the team," he says. "And since the announcement--and it's been only about four-and-a-half years--we've had more than 40 babies."
โฆthey make more babiesโฆ
There have been other benefits besides this baby boom. "More than 10 percent of the company have been able to buy their own home, in one of the U.S.'s most expensive cities for renters. Before the figure was less than 1 percent," Hegarty adds.
โฆtheyโre able to buy homesโฆ
โฆand so whatโs your argument against this?
This Laurel Canyon home
The way this home seamlessly blends from indoor to outdoorโฆ
Follow this account full of beautiful Japanese temples.
These Nudes Do Not Exist (NSFW)
If you want to see how scary/interesting the future is, click through to see how realistic AI generated photos can be. WARNING: You will see some tiddays if you click the link.
Whatโs interesting about this idea isโฆ what happens to the adult industry when you can use computers to create ALL the content?
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Thanks, Shelby! Love these. Stay safe out there ;)