Good business= social [http://blog.tomfoolery.com/post/51737929101/bob-gurwin]: ” How many business relationships are soured because we don’t understand each other as PEOPLE?  All the business collaboration tools are focused on “productivity” and “file sharing.”  What’s more important – a powerpoint or a picture of your cute kid?
Tracking the Movements of Conference Attendees via WiFi [http://infosthetics.com/archives/2013/06/relog_tracking_the_movements_of_conference_attendees_via_wifi.html] : Very neat.
Apple Mac Pro page deconstructed [http://ihatetomatoes.net/apple-mac-pro-page-deconstructed/]
Antifragile [http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edge_perspectives/2013/04/getting-stronger-through-stress-making-black-swans-work-for-you.html] : “Taleb highlights a key paradox: our focus in modern times on removing or minimizing randomness has actually had the perverse effect of increasing fragility.” I can really relate this to working in Comms, where every result is entirely at
Survivorship Bias [http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/]: Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow: “A stupid decision that works out well becomes a brilliant decision in hindsight.” The things a great company like Microsoft or Google or Apple did right are like the planes with bullet holes in the
“If you’re not the customer, you’re the product” [http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/05/free/]: “you have to recognize that you’ve been “the product” your entire life. So were your parents and so were your grandparents. Television and radio, newspapers and magazines—they all sell your
From my article on Medium: [https://medium.com/the-media-landscape/6d871c287663] > After years of working with journalists and writing myself, the challenge of composing emails that stand out in the right way has become something of an obsession. But I wonder, could you design an email client for journalists that
http://blog.bufferapp.com/why-practice-actually-makes-perfect-how-to-rewire-your-brain-for-better-performance : “myelin turns the electrical signal into the brain version of Nightcrawler, the teleporting X-Man. Instead of traveling in a straight line down the axon, the charge is BAMF-ing down at much faster speeds.” I love this stuff.
http://www.themorningnews.org/article/from-here-you-can-see-everything: “In the course of writing this I’ve watched all 13 episodes of House of Cards and who knows how many more West Wing episodes, and I’ve spent any number of blurred hours falling down internet rabbit holes. All instead of reading, or
Technology
From my post on Medium: [https://medium.com/product-design/b73da88af6a6] > I like my new Android phone. It has power, it lets me have more control over the experience than my iPhone ever did and for a lot of people, it delivers in exactly the areas that iOS is increasingly
Google Glass at the Indy 500 [http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/28/4372928/using-google-glass-at-the-indy-500-and-coca-cola-600] : From The Verge: > By the end of the day, I had become more interested in asking people what they thought Glass was doing instead of delivering my little speech about what it actually did.
Businessweek Profiles Google X [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-05-22/inside-googles-secret-lab]: > “We should be focused on making the world a better place, and once we do that, the money will come back and find us.” Google X is the best thing about Google. Forget next gen iPads in Ive’
