February 2012
8 posts
Record labels and artists don’t need to re-invent their business model to...
– Digital Music News - I’m a Successful Artist. And Here’s Why Things Have Never Been Worse…
The taboo that museums suppress: that most of the power of an art work might...
– Twitter / @alaindebotton
January 2012
6 posts
Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in...
– Woz on Creativity: Work Alone | Brain Pickings
These ring tones are “signs” for “real” music. This is music not meant to be...
– David Byrne “Bicycle Diaries”
If you’re a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing...
– Seth’s Blog: The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer
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Girl in a bookshop Animated with Loopcam for iPhone.
December 2011
5 posts
The geeks are even geekier. They don’t want the new thing; they want the...
– Seth Godin “We Are All Weird”
Some non-fiction books seem to ramble on forever without saying anything new....
– Taking notes to supercharge your learning - swombat.com on startups
November 2011
6 posts
When the sales guys run the company, the product guys don’t matter so...
– Steve Jobs, quote from book by Walter Isaacson “Steve Jobs”
The idea that someone can program our consumption is becoming obsolete, and...
– Seth’s Blog: The extraordinary revolution of media choice
You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the...
– Presentation Zen: Steve Jobs & the art of focus
The Keyframe Bias
jackcheng:
The keyframe bias is rooted in the way our memory works. To cram more information into the canteloupe-sized piece of flesh between our ears, we spawn formulas and look for exceptions, discarding the predictable and retaining the keyframes. These become the blueprints we use to recreate our past experiences, stretching a hard drive of a fixed size out to infinity.
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Beyond the “No Entry” sign everything happens in higher...
– Trespass book
October 2011
4 posts
September 2011
11 posts
Sasha Dichter: The Generosity Experiment (by TED Blog)
Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing...
– http://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Shore-Haruki-Murakami/dp/1400079276/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1315023687&sr=1-1
If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the...
– http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#3256046
Billboard Michael Jackson (by Animatorio)
August 2011
7 posts
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to...
– Quote from Dave Winfield on Motivation
selfishmemes:
A Morning with Paul Smith
“I can’t possibly have favorite anything or best anything. You can be playing Tosca or Puccini first thing in the morning, Van Morrison at night, and in the middle you could be playing Franz Ferdinand.”
July 2011
11 posts