June 2009
60 posts
MemeTracker: tracking news phrases over the web →
“If the world’s biggest pop star only made $12 million a year from his...”
– Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy - Umair Haque
Why Things Become Unpopular →
“It blows me away…I’m sorry, but whoever invented HEIDI MONTAG and...”
– Bret Easton Ellis - Bret Easton Ellis Thinks The Hills Is “A Modern Masterpiece”
“Many believers in Singularity—which one wag has dubbed “the Rapture for...”
– The Atlantic Online | Get Smarter
“It’s a form of co-evolution: we learn to adapt our thinking and expectations to...”
– The Atlantic Online | Get Smarter
Power user Gmail tips →
“…they’re not actually yelling at you. They’re yelling at the culture.”
– A Toxic Paradox
“mind wandering is a much more active state than we ever imagined, much more...”
– A Wandering Mind Heads Toward Insight - WSJ.com
The Cost of Empire - Jon Taplin →
A COKE FOR EVERY KID IN CHINA
Plans like this reveal that the writer isn’t sure what the initial target market is. It’s much easier to win a large share of a carefully targeted but narrow market—think Nike again—than it is to win a small share of a very large market.
Personal Income and Its Disposition →
Hobnox - Audiotool →
Nokia Ovi Suite 2.0 →
“Evolution is good at getting us to avoid death, desperation and celibacy, but...”
– Message in What We Buy, but Nobody’s Listening - NYTimes.com
“Tolerance is critical to a successful long term relationship. You need to be...”
– Building Successful Long Term Relationships
What is identity? - Identity in question -... →
“People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our...”
– Transcript: Bill Clinton’s Prime-Time Speech : NPR
Wesley Chan @ SOMESSO London 09 →
Stowe Boyd @ SOMESSO London 09 →
Umair Haque @ SOMESSO London 09 →
Is It Better to Buy or Rent? →
“Let’s agree that we’ll blow that bridge when we come to it.”
– Josh
“if professional investors had been willing to acknowledge these aberrations —...”
– Poking Holes in a Theory on Markets - NYTimes.com
“To quote Gawker founder Nick Denton, when we put up “half-baked posts” we are...”
– Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture
“We don’t believe that readers need to be presented with a sausage all the time....”
– The Morality And Effectiveness Of Process Journalism
Twitter's going to start doing account... →
The iPhone Is a Subscription - Bits Blog →
Four Lessons from Y-Combinator’s Fresh Approach to Innovation - Scott Anthony
This article made me think how there’s a thin, but important line between process-driven and systematic. I think the latter has you think before you do, while the former invites you to do before you think. Probably a blog post in there somewhere.
A List Apart: Burnout →
“the duboce triangle: French bulldogs go in, but they never come back out.”
– gba
“Our culture has lost the ability to usefully disagree.”
– Teach a Kid to Argue
“His thesis, essentially, is that the efficient marketeers were originally on to...”
– Poking Holes in a Theory on Markets - NYTimes.com
“The challenge is to find a way to use spreadsheets that can reward all of these...”
– Lessons Learned: It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet
“Ten years ago you and Ram Shriram invested in a small startup with lots of...”
– Sequioa’s Michael Moritz on long shots and how he picks companies - San Jose Mercury News
“Just parsley, sage and rosemary,” said Tom timelessly.”
– Tom Swifties - NYTimes.com
“no1 b4 me. srsly.”
– God Texts the 10 Commandments. 