Tremendous Mess

"I find most “lifehacks” to be pretty bullshit. They are either too easy and don’t really change..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:13:10 -0400

“I find most “lifehacks” to be pretty bullshit. They are either too easy and don’t really change anything, or they are things that are hard to do and don’t offer any real solutions as to how to do them.”

- Why I Started Reading a Lot of Books. — Old Media — Medium

"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them"

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:33:40 -0400

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them”

- Ernest Hemingway (via david)

"We live in the world of silos now. Twitter and Instagram have broken up. Facebook is the Soviet..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:36:54 -0400

“We live in the world of silos now. Twitter and Instagram have broken up. Facebook is the Soviet Union of the modern web. The new systems don’t offer RSS or feeds. “There is no common language of sharing,” he bemoaned. And rightfully so! And unless we have web giants speaking the same language of sharing, there seems to be no future of aggregation.”

- Google Reader lived on borrowed time: creator Chris Wetherell reflects — Tech News and Analysis

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:10:15 -0400

Pixar’s 22 Rules of Storytelling

Paradigm Magazine Presents: Rear Window with Ian MacKaye (by...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:15:09 -0400

Paradigm Magazine Presents: Rear Window with Ian MacKaye (by ParadigmMagazine)

"Maybe the reason we don’t have big ideas is because our entire approach to building them is..."

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:07:46 -0500

“Maybe the reason we don’t have big ideas is because our entire approach to building them is sometimes so frugal with time, money, and belief. Lean startup techniques have revolutionized how we build software, but the lean startup has also turned the a startup’s only initial asset – the conviction that an idea will work — into a villain rather than the hero.”

- The Maximum, Beautiful Product | TechCrunch (via ninakix)

the event of a thread (by Paul Octavious)

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:19:51 -0500

the event of a thread (by Paul Octavious)

"In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same..."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:32:30 -0500

“In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can’t afford to do that.”

- Joi Ito

(via parkerehret)

"We tend to equate happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has..."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:30:47 -0500

“We tend to equate happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires it’s harder to know what we want, or where we’re heading.”

- THE USES OF DIFFICULTY | More Intelligent Life

(via ario)

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Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:30:23 -0500

"Q. Does the new technology mean the end of art as we know it? A. Yes, it does. It represents a new..."

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:04:14 -0500

“Q. Does the new technology mean the end of art as we know it?
A. Yes, it does. It represents a new dimension to the way art will be understood or perceived.
It’s a departure from appreciating a singular moment. What that means is … the reason why we can appreciate art is because most art has a single resting point: canvas.
It’s painted. It’s dried. It aspires to be perfect. The medium of the computer is continually shifting. It can shift at will, in a microsecond. Or an hour.
There’s no limit on how it can be taught to change.”

- A CONVERSATION WITH: JOHN MAEDA; When M.I.T. Artist Shouts, His ‘Painting’ Listens - New York Times (via ninakix)

"culture is remix. knowledge is remix. politics is remix. everyone in the life of producing and..."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:30:52 -0500

“culture is remix. knowledge is remix. politics is remix. everyone in the life of producing and creating engages in this practice of remix. companies do it. politicians do it … we all do it. this is what life is in the expression of creativity. remix is how we live.”

- lawrence lessig (via he-saw-she-saw)

Nosaj Thing “Eclipse/Blue” [Official Video] (by...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:13:01 -0500

Nosaj Thing “Eclipse/Blue” [Official Video] (by TheCreatorsProject)

"When everyone has access to the same tools then having a tool isn’t much of an advantage. The..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:06:42 -0500

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When everyone has access to the same tools then having a tool isn’t much of an advantage. The industrial age, the age of scarcity, depended in part on the advantages that came with owning tools others didn’t own.

Time for a new advantage. It might be your network, the connections that trust you. And it might be your expertise. But most of all, I’m betting it’s your attitude.

”

- Seth Godin (via syntheticpubes)

…obvs it’s complicated (via here).

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:48:48 -0500

…obvs it’s complicated (via here).

alecshao: Chris Larson - Deep North (2008) “Set into the snow,...

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:51:48 -0400

alecshao:

Chris Larson - Deep North (2008)

“Set into the snow, this abandoned house had the artist working in below zero temperatures to get the interior and exterior carved out just right. During the coldest months the dilapidated house was sprayed with thousands of gallons of water and left to freeze. The result was chilling, and at some points looks more like a thick coat of white acrylic.”

Michael Beitz - Avoid Conversation Table (2012)

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 12:47:19 -0400

Michael Beitz - Avoid Conversation Table (2012)

THE FEYNMAN SERIES (part 1) - Beauty

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:54:49 -0400

THE FEYNMAN SERIES (part 1) - Beauty

"Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important..."

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:34:18 -0400

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Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases:

Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success.
Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities.
Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts.
Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place.

Curiously, and overstating the point in order to make it, success is a catalyst for failure.

”

- Harvard Business Review’s Greg McKeown, synthesizing insights from Jim Collins’s How the Mighty Fail. (via explore-blog)

The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:46:12 -0400

The Top 10 Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English