Agencies have lost their #Mojo [http://www.karlhavard.com/2013/06/agencies-have-lost-their-mojo-and-ive.html]: This post is a train wreck. > So, I’ve taken to LinkedIn, Twitter and good old email to contact a number of agencies, at CEO level, to tell them they’ve lost their mojo.
Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative? [https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/f7fcb3b786b1]: By Mikael Cho and much more interesting than It would be in most hands: > This got me wondering about coffee and beer and which one would actually help me be more creative and get work
Old tech is cool. http://news.yahoo.com/your-oldest–most-outdated-device-010249339.html [http://news.yahoo.com/your-oldest--most-outdated-device-010249339.html]
Why iOS 7’s design is bold but flawed [http://www.macworld.com/article/2043265/why-ios-7s-design-is-bold-but-flawed.html] : More good chat about iOS 7 design from Christa Mrgan” > Jony Ive’s icon grid is also “wrong,” in that the glyphs within the icons just don’t look harmoniously balanced.
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
I was pretty young when the Mac died. Growing up in a PC household, all I knew was that there was a hard core of people who were obsessed with these single-buttoned machines. And I couldn’t play any decent games on them. A lot of people have classed me