January 2010
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WatchDanger Mouse & James Mercer (Broken Bells) - “The High Road”
“The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures...”
– Wade Davis (via rahmin)
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The path to doing something great is going to be... →
“Late Night With Conan O’Brien,’ an hour of aimless dawdle masquerading as a TV program and airing at 12:35 each weeknight on NBC…he’s the host who should never have come…clearly he should be the head writer of the show, not the star…O’Brien is a kind of walking shambles all by himself.”
- Tom Shales, well read TV critic in the Washington...
“Minimalism isn’t cold, it’s warm and too the point.”
– Webdesignledger (web design trends for ‘10)(via todayifound)
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Why Facebook wants you to have more friends. →
“So I’m betting that Facebook has a problem with user engagement. Revenue does not come from adding new users, but retaining engaged users. The more engaged users are, the more time the spend on the site and the more pages they see. The more pages they see, the greater the number of ads that Facebook serves. This certainly is not rocket science.”
Good article, and I have to agree. I...
“We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects on which...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » The Einstein Principle: Accomplish More By Doing Less (via rahmin)
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Lupe Fiasco & Kenna...
“Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least...”
– Conan O’Brien, The Tonight Show, January 22, 2010 (via secondaryartifacts)
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“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money...”
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma)
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The TurnSocial toolbar V2.0 →
With today’s release of account management functionality, we’ve made it easier for our users to manage and edit their TurnSocial toolbars, without ever having to reinstall the javascript on their website. From a display perspective, we’ve also tried to minimize the intrusiveness of the toolbar on your website, by sizing it only as large as the number of apps you’ve added,...
The brick approach →
Unexpected wisdom from Will Smith talking with Charlie Rose on approaching tasks:
You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s every been built. You don’t start there. You say I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. …. You do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. (~23:00)
I’ve always liked Jeff...
Think Different →
Four intuitive ways of thinking may actually lead humans into traps. Here, they’re outlined in a bit of a review of what’s wrong with the CIA:
The first and most important tendency is that our minds are prone to see patterns and meaning in our world quite quickly, and then tend to ignore information that might disprove them. Second, people pay more attention to visible information than to...
“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckfailgoawesome) (via abeshafi)
Minimize. Simplify. Streamline.
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2010 will be a year of personal reinvention.
I made the decision to pursue of life of entrepreneurship in mid-2008; I made that decision a reality by leaving my comfy career job later that same year. My first venture, asIrent.com, with my first partner, dissolved in early 2009 (they say “fail fast” - well we did!). My second, and current venture, TurnSocial.com, was born in June 2009. Currently, some very tough decisions need to...
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
– Bertrand Russell. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia (via abeshafi)
Pretty sure I decimated my iTunes library this...
So that’s awesome.
Sigur Ros vs. Mobb Deep “Shook Ones”...
