Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Digressions'

@whitneyhess on Acela Express

June 15th, 2009 · Comments · Photography

When Jeffrey Zeldman uploads your photo to Flickr, you blog it.

@whitneyhess on Acela Express
Originally uploaded by Jeffrey Zeldman
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April Fools jokes around the web — causing user pain?

April 1st, 2009 · Comments · Digressions, Humor

Shockingly, a bunch of people really believed that I was putting my career as a user experience designer on hold in order to become a motivational speaker.
But there have been much bigger jokes floating around the web today in honor of April Fools’ Day, some of which are cute and silly, and others of which [...]

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An important announcement for my 300th post

April 1st, 2009 · Comments · Digressions

It has been almost 15 months since I started this blog. When I started it, I felt like I had plateaued in my career and needed the next uphill climb. Since then I have come out of my shell, made a lot of friends in the user experience and greater tech communities here in NYC [...]

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My favorite terms from The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit 2008 — Part 1

February 20th, 2009 · Comments · Digressions, Humor

Today as I was cleaning up my desk, I found my old 2008 Page-A-Day Calendar of The Dictionary of Corporate Bullshit. I used to have it on my desk at Liquidnet and got a huge kick out of lamenting a new bullshit term every day. The definitions are hilarious and merciless. Sometimes the terms were [...]

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In 2008, You Changed Me

January 3rd, 2009 · Comments · Digressions, Pleasure

In the past year, my life has turned upside down. It was more than I ever wanted and everything I needed. And it happened because of all of the amazing people whom I just happened to cross paths with, whom I sought out, who sought me out, who were introduced to me, or whom I [...]

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