Sunday morning. Vex & Udon lounging like big cats in the sun. Listening to Shed’s La Boum de Luxe set.
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When the iPhone debuted, it was widely criticized for having no buttons/keys. Now people think the iPhone’s design is “obvious.”
Dan Frakes
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Here’s the problem with copying: Copying skips understanding. Understanding is how you grow. You have to understand why something works or why something is how it is. When you copy it, you miss that. You just repurpose the last layer instead of understanding all the layers underneath.
Jason Fried
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At the end of the day, I’ll always go with black. But the blu & red versions are lovely.
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Grade school Christmas-morning level anticipation for the United Parcel Service gentleman. It’s been a long wait.
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First choice when starting a company to create a social impact should be a for-profit business,” because she says, the “revenue streams are more reliable, and there are more dollars available (both debt and equity) for starting and growing.
Geri Stengel
//So many ways to slice and dice this “for” or “against”…
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There is a profound change taking place in media literacy.
Rather than being riven by angst over the future of immersive narratives, younger people are delightedly swimming in a sea of diverse choices.
Whenever they have access to tools, they are having a wonderful time using them. This summer an older relative questioned whether children were able to focus for long on any one topic, and if concentration was faltering because of the internet; all I could think about was the coordination and effort that went into four kids producing videos on a tablet computer. How they are creating may be different – out of this world for us oldsters – but as they say, the kids are alright. The question of whether we will have packaged, downloadable narratives or interlinked web-based structures is so much sturm und drangthat will be answered for us. Our children are telling themselves stories with the tools we are leaving behind for them.
This summer, my child along with three others received a mini-course on U.S. history. In each week’s session, they were tasked with telling a story about what they learned: the discovery of America by Europeans on one hand, and the Bill of Rights on the other. Instead of co-authoring written stories or individual essays, they collaborated to produce two short videos using an iPad and Apple’s iMovie. This was amazing to me: with minimal guidance from a Gen Y teacher, within a single week these young kids taught themselves to produce and edit a short video on a complex topic with a storyline, sound effects, and music samples on a device that didn’t exist a few years ago. For them, choosing video over writing a story “just made sense” – they could not even imagine an alternative. If someone would have suggested this was possible when I was as young, I would have thought they had dropped acid.
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2012/08/23/the-kids-are-alright-making-new-stories/
Shortly after we launched Reddit, we found out about another social-news site, Digg. We realized that what your competitors do should be irrelevant. Stay focused on your own plans and strategy. More often than not, what can ruin a business isn’t what a competitor does, but rather something that happens internally. When we started Hipmunk, a travel site, we were well aware of Kayak. We didn’t focus on being better than them. We just set about creating what we thought would be the best travel search site. This single-minded focus can be applied to almost every venture on the Internet.
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