January 2012
34 posts
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)
Life is …
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)
Track how much (or how little) various stories... →
soupsoup:
Nice interactive tool from Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism
That Whitsun, I was late getting away: Not till about
One-twenty on the sunlit...
– The Whitsun Weddings - by Philip Larkin
Planets!!
I am proud to have worked on this, many moons ago.
On Dec. 20, 2011, astronomers announced the discovery an alien solar system 950 light-years from Earth that is chock full of planets, including the first two extrasolar worlds ever confirmed to be the size of our own Earth or smaller.
Finding Earth-size planets has been a major goal for NASA’s Kepler space observatory, which spotted the...
It’s about magical thinking, and willing things into being, and the random stuff...
– How to Get a Job If You’re a Forty-Something Woman - Forbes