May 2013
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The Anti-Data Movement
We’re building 1984 themselves. We’re creating a goldmine of personal data for governments and brand marketers.
We’re asking for our data to be scraped and aggregated for personalized targeting. Social networks are an extension of your social security number. The Syrian Electronic Army phishes for our passwords.
It’s no wonder teens are using more private social tools...
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The Two Types Of Social Network →
BuzzFeed explores the different types of social networks (mainly Facebook and Twitter) and concludes that we’re headed right back to where we started, privacy and direct messaging, “AIM.”
Message-heavy services like Snapchat, Kik and Whatsapp — are more “social” and less “network” than what came before.
For the past few months, I’ve been sending more content I might have shared on Facebook...
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THE DESIGN THAT CONQUERED GOOGLE →
Google is a traditionally left-brain company now balancing analytics with the proper beauty of design with “cards.”
“The idea is that each card is a single atomic contextual piece of information; essentially, a suggestion, a prompt, a call to action,” said Duarte. “It boils down to focus: in a very constrained space, they can communicate one thing really well.”
Apple faces...
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How the Internet Destroyed World Music
While searching for “world music” within Twitter one is most likely to find results about Justin Bieber’s “Around The World” track instead. A simple Google search for the same keywords brings up a variety of institutes, theaters, and World Music networks. Pre-Internet, “World Music” fans mostly consisted of academic Westerners interested in the...
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THE DAILY RITUALS OF THE WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE... →
The busier people were less precious—you learn to fit [your creative work] in, and you don’t have these elaborate eccentric rituals if you have children or a day job. Someone like Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in the evenings after work. He’d write for two or three hours a night after his job as an advertising executive doing campaigns for magazines. He was not a tortured artist. He found...
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“The people who control culture in China have no culture.”
– Ai Weiwei
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WatchI controlled the rain yesterday at MoMA’s Rain Room.
Art is more than just staring at pictures within frames. Art is also about living with the experience and manipulating the ingredients.
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“The myth of the overnight success is just that – a myth.”
– Seth Godin
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Yahoo Now Linked With Tumblr Deal →
fastcompany:
Where is Yahoo turning its attention to now? AllThingsDreportsthatMarissa Mayeris eyeing Tumblrwith hopes to land some sort of deal, be it an acquisition or a percentage stake.
More…
Not surprising. Tumblr is a hot property for teens. Karp is still hesitant to fully monetize the platform to avoid ruining the experience.
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“someday” list = “research” list. →
“Avoid the clutter and guilt of a Someday/Maybe list and start working toward these projects in the present.”
Select something more specific and actionable. Any time you look at the end-result you’ll end up going nowhere.
The final result is the result of tiny actions, like practice.
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Bullet Train
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“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
– Coco Chanel
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“Notebooks might be as good as art gets in our time.”
– Richard Hell
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“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
– Roald Dahl
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Passing Trains
Sometimes the adjacent trains zoom by so fast you can still see the other side, uninterrupted, just through two additional windows instead of one.
Passenger head silhouettes pop in an out of view rapidly, none of which look the same. The people standing up look like giants.
Perspective is whatever you want to see plus awareness. Life moves fast. It’s vital to stick to a vision unimpeded...
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“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. ...”
– Thomas Bangalter, 1/2 Daft Punk, on the band’s effort to use man made sound over machines for their newest record.
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HOW BING CROSBY AND THE NAZIS HELPED TO CREATE... →
Bing Crosby discovered the microphone. He was also the first American to record on tape, which basically pioneered the hard drive.
Fast-forward into the mid-nineteen-forties. The Second World War had just ended. Americans were picking over the technological remains of German industry. One of the things they discovered was magnetic tape; the Nazis had been using tape recording to broadcast...
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Never certain, always prepared
Think about it all you want. It’s never as bad as you think.
The mind seeks certainty before occurrence. Naturally, we think of negative outcomes first.
Few people are confident in their ability to succeed. These people are either well prepared or simply overconfident, which can be equally as bad as being too pessimistic. Never fabricate your past work nor future effort.
Embrace fear,...
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Never too late to try
Interests should evolve. As a kid, it was toys. As a teenager, it was video games. In college, it was social networking and dating. As a young worker, it was a continuation of college interests minus the time.
As a settled adult, interests are now wide open. With a clean slate, you may explore new activities, re-pursue an old ambition, appreciate art.
As you grow older you take an active...
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“Having the wrong timing is still being wrong.”
– A word of wisdom from Ian Rogers to co-founder of Instagram Mike Krieger.
I worked for Ian at Topspin along with Brad.
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“So many labels are going out of business. We bring it back to where it counts:...”
– Diplo
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“99% of who you are is invisible.”
– Buckminster Fuller
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This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In... →
We hoped the “slow live blog” approach would give us more flexibility and speed when it came to writing and producing news. Instead of starting with a fresh article every time we want to cover something inside a regular beat, which might require a long catch-up introduction, context, background and so forth, we could just put fresh news at the top and let the reader scroll down to...
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"It's yours to lose."
Success contains both pleasure and pain. Working hard backlashes when the gains run out. That’s when you seek success elsewhere.
Everyone wants continued progress, positive results. The problem with this sort of thinking is that is causes perpetual stress and inevitable disappointment. One can’t possibly achieve promotion all the time.
Instead, try thinking about success in terms of...
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Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle... →
So Kodak has 140,000 really good middle-class employees, and Instagram has 13 employees, period.
The giant sucking sound of the digital economy.
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