April 2011
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ListenPatti Smith, “Dancing Barefoot.” <3
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Getting people to want things they don’t really... →
“We often talk about how marketing’s job is to get us to want things and spend our money, sometimes foolishly. But that reflects only marketing’s output. Marketing also creates input: It spurs us to work to earn the money to buy the things we want.”
Apr 27th
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Group discussions are a "creativity killer" →
… as well as boring and a waste of time.
Apr 27th
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Why We Shouldn't Treat Rap As Poetry | The Awl →
Apr 27th
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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The amygdala, the part of the brain that responds... →
What happens to your brain when faced with a daunting goal or project.
Apr 20th
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“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via psychotherapy)
Apr 20th
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Most of us sacrifice our present-day enjoyment for... →
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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Clocks offer at best a convenient fiction. They... →
Apr 19th
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Apr 19th
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“Flipboard aggregates content from your social graph in really lovely ways, but...”
– Most of of conversations on social media are in an oral tradition, not a literate one - even though they’re in written form. Via a working library (link thanks to @monsieurmorris)
Apr 19th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 15th
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Linkness | Get your Instapaper ready!
Every week now I curate a feature called “Linkness” for the STW Group blog, which lists all the stories and insights that interested my colleagues and me. I won’t cross-link every week because that’s boring, but head over to Nextness and subscribe so you can get it every Friday! (For true reading-lovers, I can also recommend the weekly curations of Rachel Hills and...
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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“In project after project, the lesson was the same: information technology...”
– International development: Technology is not the answer The Atlantic
Apr 14th
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“There obviously are places where large-scale data and analysis will improve...”
– Big data: Global good or zero-sum arms race? O’Reilly Radar
Apr 12th
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“Discussions of technology and media tend to focus on speed — what’s the fastest...”
– How ‘Radiolab’ is Transforming the Airwaves, NYTimes.com. YES.
Apr 11th
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“Everyone is communicative and knowledgeable, or not, depending on the context...”
– Raqs Media Collective in How To Be An Artist At Night via I love my blog
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Walking the Line Between Good and Evil: The Common... →
Apr 10th
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“When an item is in dispute (meaning I want to sell, toss, or recycle it and the...”
– From a comment on an Apartment Therapy post via swissmiss
Apr 10th
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Being and Nothingness, LOL: How to lose your mind... →
Option #1 – Delusions of Grandeur (The Kanye)  Get up in the morning. Check Google Analytics. Worry about your Twitter stats. Calculate the trend in follower growth. Wonder how to drive traffic. Increase your posting frequency. Talk to fellow social media influencers. Investigate good-looking new Tumblr followers. Flirt with them on Twitter. Put up a gratuitous picture of yourself on your blog...
Apr 10th
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