June 2007
25 posts
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Why Six Sigma is Just Table Stakes Now--And so is... →
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the...”
– Douglas Adams
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over...”
– David Foster Wallace - Commencement Speech at Kenyon University
The Light Sharpener!!! →
Designer//Slash//Model//LOLs →
The Scene (Wikipedia) - the internets teach me... →
List of protologisms - Wiktionary →
“To a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
– Source unknown
The Profit Calculator -- New York Magazine →
It should be a law...
…that people who make up cute spellings with their phone numbers be forced to list out the actual digits next to their cute little 1800-OMGCALLME . A) Trying to call you without a traditional phone pad it pretty much impossible…which means I have to locate a picture of a phone pad on the internets just to decipher the actual numbers to attempt a call…so I’m already pissed...
“A “new luxury” product is one that demonstrates technical...”
– Mid-market consumers, women will “trade up” to luxury of iPhone - AppleInsider
What the World Eats - Time Photo Essay (completely... →
Leave it to Simon King
I had seen this Stefan Sagmeister’s TED talk before, but leave it to Simon to remind me to slow down and pay closer attention. In his talk, Stefan makes reference to a list of personal maxims in his jounal. He only touches upon them briefly in the talk, but it’s an inciteful list. Complaining is silly. Either act of forget. Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid,...
Business strategy | Shall we play a game? →
“Let’s make a deal: you keep saying “user-generated content”...”
– Merlin Mann
SawStop →
“This is why most strategists claim to be creative and most creative people claim...”
– ID Strategy Conference 2007: Michael Bierut 