August 2010
1 post
Falling Down | Talking Points Memo
I’ve seen a number of stories and comments over the last couple days suggesting that our society and politics is more polarized today than at any time in recent memory or perhaps even at any time in American history. But while these are pretty curdled times we’re living in, that seems like a dramatic overstatement. The late 1960s come to mind as a real contender in the...
April 2010
3 posts
Daily Patricia: Twitter's Ad Monetization Strategy... →
Poor Twitter. It’s essentially nothing more than a message board, a person-to-person communications service that enables its users to talk to each other. It thinks itself as a media company and publishing platform but in reality, the sole reason why people are there is to connect with other…
marco:
What makes me optimistic about iPad sales is just how delightful it is to use one. That’s a factor that makes sales truly viral: people who didn’t plan to buy it tend to change their minds as soon as they try one.
No feature checklist will ever convey user delight.
Cameron Moll's Colosseo iPad Martian Giveaway
analogsuite:
We like Cameron Moll – he’s a great designer and a great communicator – so let’s lavish some love and attention on his most recent promotional campaign for the Colosseo poster.
It’s intriguing, innovative, and potentially very cost-effective. We’ll keep an eye on the results and discuss the ramifications on a future episode.
January 2010
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December 2009
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October 2009
0 posts
“Motivated by the popularity of games, designers of social systems sometimes...”
– On the thoughtful use of points in social systems (via arielwaldman)
March 2009
1 post
“Cynically speaking, one could say that it is true to life to be cynical about...”
– Paul Tillich
February 2009
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Three levels of knowing
tlvx:
Simplicity is the world view of the child or uniformed adult, fully engaged in his experience and happily unaware of what lies beneath the surface of immediate reality.
Complexity characterizes the ordinary adult world view by an awareness of complex systems in nature and society but an inability to discern clarifying patterns and connections.
Informed Simplicity is an enlightened view...
January 2009
1 post
“It does not matter if you already have the talent to save your company among...”
– Bill Buxton
November 2008
1 post
“The financial sector subtracts value from society.”
– John Bogle
August 2008
1 post
“The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely...”
– Bertrand Russell
July 2008
1 post
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty; I think only about...”
– Buckminster Fuller
March 2008
5 posts
“There is one thing companies can do short of structuring themselves as sponges:...”
– Paul Graham
·•Bendito Machine•· →
OH: “bone of contrition”
it’s a big world full of stuff