- Sep 2023
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hypothes.is hypothes.is
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"Surrendering" by Ocean Vuong
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He moved into United State when he was age of five. He first came to United State when he started kindergarten. Seven of them live in the apartment one bedroom and bathroom to share the whole. He learned ABC song and alphabet. He knows the ABC that he forgot the letter is M comes before N.
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He went to the library since he was on the recess. He was in the library hiding from the bully. The bully just came in the library doing the slight frame and soft voice in front of the kid where he sit. He left the library, he walked to the middle of the schoolyard started calling him the pansy and fairy. He knows the American flag that he recognize on the microphone against the backdrop.
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- My family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1990, when I was two. We lived, all seven of us, in a one-bedroom apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, and I spent my first five years in America surrounded, inundated, by the Vietnamese language. When I entered kindergarten, I was, in a sense, immigrating all over again, except this time into English. Like any American child, I quickly learned my ABCs, thanks to the age-old melody (one I still sing rapidly to myself when I forget whether “M” comes before “N”). Within a few years, I had become fluent—but only in speech, not in the written word.
- Weeks earlier, I’d been in the library. It was where I would hide during recess. Otherwise, because of my slight frame and soft voice, the boys would call me “pansy” and “fairy” and pull my shorts around my ankles in the middle of the schoolyard. I sat on the floor beside a tape player. From a box of cassettes, I chose one labelled “Great American Speeches.” I picked it because of the illustration, a microphone against a backdrop of the American flag. I picked it because the American flag was one of the few symbols I recognized.
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- May 2022
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datatracker.ietf.org datatracker.ietf.org
- Aug 2020
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blog.bigbinary.com blog.bigbinary.com
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A big thanks to José Valim for patiently dealing with me while working on this ticket.
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- Jan 2020
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educatorinnovator.org educatorinnovator.org
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Super glad to have the author share here. It is risky business to make yourself vulnerable in a space like this. I am grateful.
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- Mar 2018
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insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org
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said.
I finally got the comments to appear so I could make my own thanks chrome
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- Jun 2016
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jeremydean.org jeremydean.org
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Thanks for a great example of creating a blog with hypothes.is!
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- Jan 2016
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github.com github.com
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slack-invite-script
Much thanks to @dherbst for creating this—a very useful tool for Slack, which doesn't currently let users sign themselves up for your teams. I used this for the Digital Humanities Slack (tinyurl.com/dhslack) invite form.
Unfortunately, I neglected to note how I did the one fiddly part when following these instructions—finding your Slack channel code—and some colleagues are now stuck on getting that part to work. I've tried to annotate these docs with more info and questions to help others use them, too.
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- Jan 2014
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blogs.hbr.org blogs.hbr.org
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Thank them for something they specifically did that was above the call of duty.
It's important to know what it takes to "exceed expectations". Does working hard and then working even harder for the same outcome go above the call of duty? Or does the outcome matter? Whatever the answer is, being specific in the thanks is important to communicate what you think the answer is.
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research by Adam Grant and Francesca Gino has shown that saying thank you not only results in reciprocal generosity — where the thanked person is more likely to help the thanker — but stimulates prosocial behavior in general. In other words, saying “thanks” increases the likelihood your employee will not only help you, but help someone else.
Reciprocal generosity... keystone habits
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They are a person deserving of your not infrequent acknowledgment and worthy of appreciation and respect. When was the last time you thanked them — really thanked them?
Basic dignity and respect-- a good thing, indeed. We need more of that.
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research by Adam Grant and Francesca Gino has shown that saying thank you not only results in reciprocal generosity — where the thanked person is more likely to help the thanker — but stimulates prosocial behavior in general. In other words, saying “thanks” increases the likelihood your employee will not only help you, but help someone else.
Good things generate more good things
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So when I wrote to her boss, I included this: “When I get to be rich, I’m going to hire someone like your assistant — to protect me from people like me. She was helpful, friendly, feisty vs. boring and yet guarded access to you like a loyal pit bull. If she doesn’t know how valuable she is to you, you are making a big managerial mistake and YOU should know better.”
Evocative
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