February 2012
10 posts
“Words like “productivity,” “efficiency,” and...”
– Why I’m Glad I Got Fired - Nilofer Merchant - Harvard Business Review
“At some point in mid-game, and before Madonna wrenched everyone back to the...”
– MediaPost Publications Back To The Future: TV Is My New Radio 02/07/2012
Why most Facebook users get more than they give
We seem to “discover” these truisms about online communities over and over and over again.
“First, it turns out there are segments of Facebook power users who contribute much more content than the typical user. Most Facebook users are moderately active over a one-month time period, so highly active power users skew the average. Second, these power users constitute about 20%-30% of...
“A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped...”
– Creating Shared Value - Harvard Business Review
“Data is not the target. Data is not the answer. Data is not the insight.
...”
– Just to Clarify: Stories are the Last Mile in Big Data (via interestingsnippets)
“It sure pays to have friends.”
– Facebook Files for an I.P.O. - NYTimes.com
January 2012
38 posts
“Products will need to become increasingly more human as they become more mobile.”
– Google, Facebook, Privacy — And You | TechCrunch
“Companies need to start strengthening their digital assets:
— Information and...”
– bcg.perspectives - The Connected World (via interestingsnippets)
“If they’re good actors in another place on the Internet, like a blog, they can...”
– In a Switch, Google Plus Now Allows Pseudonyms - NYTimes.com
“I don’t have to make a lot of money to survive on that. I don’t have a crazy-ass...”
– Innovation In Action: Steven Soderbergh Talks “Haywire” | Co.Create: Creativity \ Culture \ Commerce
“Companies that once were large and massive and failed to adjust to the new...”
– Why Kodak’s bankruptcy should scare Nokia — Tech News and Analysis (via greenfuturist)
“Ultimately, the battle for world economic pre-eminence won’t be decided by...”
– Scalable Collaboration: Lessons From China: Li & Fung - Forbes
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic...”
– Hunter S. Thompson’s 1958 cover letter for the Vancouver Sun (via kateoplis)
BRYCE DOT VC: Conditioning Company Culture →
brycedotvc:
Last week, Renee and I dropped by Facebook to grab lunch with a friend of hers who has been at the company for a little less than a year. After the obligatory tour and oohs and ahhs over the new campus, we settle into lunch at the cafeteria. As we talked of his transition into a new company…
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality, alongside similar sentiments by Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs (via curiositycounts)
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.”
– Marshall McLuhan
“The smartest person in the room is no longer a person but the room itself.”
– What the Internet Means for How We Think About the World (via courtenaybird)
“Most good things happen without a plan: friendships, falling in love, finding a...”
– » How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal) :zenhabits (via bijan)
December 2011
42 posts
“Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but a derelict deathtrap to be...”
– Mastering the Art of Living Meaningfully Well (via courtenaybird)
