May 2012
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The quickest way to get things done and make... →
Don’t demand authority.
Eagerly take responsibility.
Relentlessly give credit.
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Facebook’s business model - Chris Dixon →
Facebook relies on an old internet business model: display ads. Display ads generally hurt the user experience, and are also not very efficient at producing revenues.
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Marc Andreessen Visits Peter Thiel’s Stanford... →
“Even designers are becoming great CEOs—just look at Airbnb. They’ve got the whole company thinking in terms of design. Design is becoming increasingly important. Apple’s success doesn’t come from their hardware. It comes from OSX and iOS. Design is layered on top of that. A lot of the talk about the beautiful hardware is just the press not getting it. The best designers are the...
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Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: Regret. →
cameronmoll:
Kathryn Schulz, as quoted by Maria Popova:
If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for…
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“My last piece of advice is this simple… Persevere. Because nothing worthwhile is...”
– President Obama, in his commencement address at Barnard College today (via barackobama)
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“Jackson has never been ashamed of his work — “I entertained an enormous amount...”
– How Samuel L. Jackson Became His Own Genre
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“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. Scientists made a...”
– What It Takes To Innovate: Wrong-Thinking, Tinkering & Intuiting :: Articles :: The 99 Percent
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“Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose...”
– Inspiration and Chai
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“Now, this isn’t an excuse for solutions to accomplish less. The irony of...”
– The Simplicity Thesis
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“I don’t give a damn if the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it IS...”
– A rare interview with Saul Bass, who would have been 92 today, on money, good work, and creative legacy (via explore-blog)
“Obama fielded a facetious question from then-CEO Eric Schmidt: “What is the most...”
– Obama is a True Nerd!
The A/B Test: Inside the Technology That’s Changing the Rules of Business | Epicenter | Wired.com
(via felixsalmon)
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“Economic growth occurs whenever people take resources and rearrange them in ways...”
– Paul Romer (via pegobry)
“IF YOU’RE MAKING THE CUSTOMER DO ANY EXTRA AMOUNT OF WORK, NO MATTER WHAT...”
– Aaron Levie, CEO and cofounder of Box, from The Simplicity Thesis (via fastcompany)
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“The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that’s the only way the...”
– Dustin Moskovitz: Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Bad for Silicon Valley | PandoDaily (via davemorin)
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“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For...”
– John Lennon (via david)
Apple’s iOS head sold 95% (worth $38.7M) of his... →
While it may look like Forstall is planning his escape from Apple, the sale seems more to be a well-time moved to make the most of his Apple stock. And his Apple stock portfolio won’t be empty for too long, as Forstall has over 350,000 restricted stock units that will vest over the next four years (as long as he sticks with Apple).
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“The bulls have disappeared from the scene as far as RIM is concerned,”...”
– Investors Don’t Like RIM’s Blackberry 10
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Research in Motion’s BlackBerry 10 Is Unveiled →
Mike Abramsky, who recently left RBC Capital Markets where he covered RIM as an analyst for a decade, said that giving prototype phones to developers is probably a good idea, but will not guarantee success for the BlackBerry 10 phones.
“They’re not being stupid; they’re doing everything they can,” Mr. Abramsky said. “But this is about the challenges of being late to the game. They’re trying to...
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Into The Wild: Lost Conversations From Steve Jobs'... →
And just as he had at Pixar, he aligned the company behind those projects. In a way that had never been done before at a technology company—but that looked a lot like an animation studio bent on delivering one great movie a year—Jobs created the organizational strength to deliver one hit after another, each an extension of Apple’s position as the consumer’s digital hub, each as strong as its...
April 2012
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“It is not about selling more of these individual devices, it is all about...”
– Apple’s Inevitable Path to a post-PC Era
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin (via cloudcloudny)
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“T. Michael Walkley, an analyst with Canaccord Genuity in Minneapolis, said in a...”
– Apple literally does rule the World
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“But amid this brain-gain boom, there are still millions more professionals in...”
– Africans are Moving back Home. But…
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“So anyone who steps up and volunteers to curate in their area of knowledge and...”
– Content Curators are the Superheroes of the Web
This describes what I do on the internets
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