June 2012
48 posts
“The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve currency and the eurozone in deep fiscal trouble. We have a huge public debt, dangerously neglected infrastructure, a greatly overextended system of criminal punishment, a seeming inability to come to grips with grave environmental problems such as global warming, a very costly but inadequate educational system, unsound immigration policies, an embarrassing obesity epidemic, an excessively costly health care system, a possible rise in structural unemployment, fiscal crises in state and local governments, a screwed-up tax system, a dysfunctional patent system, and growing economic inequality that may soon create serious social tensions. Our capitalist system needs a lot of work to achieve proper capitalist goals.”
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Richard Posner
that’s a pretty good list of what we need to fix
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system “dysfunctional” — Mobile Technology News
(via fred-wilson)Accomplishing goals
You can learn to hit a baseball by doing research on the best bats, exercises to strengthen your swing, physics of balls and projections, checking the weather for the optimal wind conditions.
Or you can just pick up a bat and swing that motherfucker.
“Push back is part of the process. It’s about refining and forming. It makes a better end-product 100% of the time. The success of their business depends on the quality of your work, and you owe it to the client to make sure they get the absolute best.”
—Nice tidbit from The Client is Always Wrong . (via jwphillips)
“Art is an expression of an individual’s will to society at large. Design, on the other hand, is not self-expression. Instead it originates in society. The essence of design lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it. Because the root of the problem is within society, everyone can understand plans for solutions and processes for solving the problem, in addition to being able to see the problem from the designer’s perspective. Design is appealing because the process creates inspiration that is engendered by this empathy…”
—Kenya Hara, Designing Design (via evanmrose)
“Creativity is curiosity put into action.”
—//Bill Rice responding to the “What is creativity?” question posed in Disciplined Dreaming by Josh Linkner (via wmrice)
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May 2012
28 posts
hey amber rae: Want less, will more →
tumblr.heyamberrae.com
Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about what they want.
I want a new job that fulfills me. I want to write a best-selling book. I want to meet the love of my life. I want to start my own business. I want to travel the world. I want to get in better shape. I want to release my first…
The Bullseye of America’s Internet →
gizmodo.com
As much as we might prefer to think that the internet just happens, the fact is that it comprises a massive physical infrastructure. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book Tubes, Andrew Blum takes us on a tour of the internet’s most important US hideout - Ashburn, Virginia..
“We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does speak to a set of values. And what preoccupies us is that sense of care, and what our products will not speak to is a schedule, what our products will not speak to is trying to respond to some corporate or competitive agenda. We’re very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.”
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Don’t worry about what the competition is doing. Worry about what you’re doing. That’s how you do the best work.
(via parislemon)
“at least slot machines in Vegas pay out 98pct”
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@mcuban
Facebook IPO Post Mortem – Killer – but not for the reasons you think ! « blog maverick
(via fred-wilson)
Editorial Calendars are Dead →
billrice.me
Have you tried to create a useful editorial calendar lately? It can, in the best case, only address only a fraction of the productive content that a modern content marketing plan needs.
Here’s how we’re starting to think about content production at Kaleidico:
Cornerstone Content -…
“On how important social media has become, Karp shared that the bulk of traffic that Tumblr sees comes from Twitter and Facebook. Not Google. This isn’t surprising, but speaks volumes about the real-time value of Tumblr. While most blogs rely on Google for the bulk of its traffic, Tumblr has carved itself a niche that is a hybrid between real-time and static content. Basically, the company has built the best of both worlds.”
—Most of Tumblr’s Traffic Doesn’t Come From Google (via thenextweb)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
—Stephen R. Covey (via consumingmythoughts)
Agreed.
Understand first before wanting to be understood.
- Angry
(via theangrytherapist)
“The Art of the Tea Ceremony” by Louis Vuitton. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILy0kYkbUaI”
—A little Gong Fu Cha from Louis Vuitton
“When summer comes to Chicago, there are no problems except where to be happiest.”
—(via cassieirwin)
April 2012
20 posts
“Happiness isn’t what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don’t exist… Happiness is earned, like everything else. It’s achieved.”
—Marisa de los Santos (via kari-shma)
