February 2012
20 posts
“Congratulations Facebook, you’ve built THE KILLER BIRTHDAY APP. They own the...”
– Facebook, It’s like Instagram for Birthdays | jake levine
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves...”
– Eric Hoffer
Surveillance drone industry plans PR effort to... →
Drone free zone
“Because you know what’s going to happen now, don’t you? A fucking supermarket...”
– LUV & HAT: GIRAFFE BREAD
“Open plan offices were designed with the idea that people can move around and...”
– More damaging evidence on open plan offices
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“Simply put: we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better...”
– Mark Zuckerberg (via Facebook S-1)
“As we move away from interaction via screens and into physical space, we have...”
– Zach Lieberman of Openframeworks responding to the question “how will technology become more humanised in the next decade”, in Wired’s March 2012 issue. (via timburrellsawardjournal)
January 2012
43 posts
“A product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release...”
– What is Amazon’s approach to product development and product management?
“People who worked 11 hours a day or more, more than doubled their risk of major...”
– Working Long Hours Can Be Depressing, Truly
“Millions of people across nearly every industry have used Basecamp to manage...”
– Starting Over | Get Real | Jason Fried | Inc.com
“If you are doing something clever it’s probably wrong. If you are going to scale...”
– http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/1/9/the-etsy-saga-from-silos-to-happy-to-billions-of-pageviews-a.html
The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible -... →
“I’m sure that several of my childhood memories are actually memories of seeing...”
– The story of the self | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
“Autobiographical memories are stitched together as and when they are needed from...”
– The story of the self | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
“Pretty much every TV at CES had the same functionality: Wi-Fi. Gesture control....”
– Chris Heathcote: anti-mega: sand in the vaseline
“If I decided what I was going to do in college—when there was no Internet, no...”
– Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
“The challenges before RIM are as big as any faced by a smartphone maker in the...”
– The long road to BlackBerry 10 | The Verge
“Would the one per cent watch Mercedes ads during the Super Bowl, while the rest...”
– STREAMING DREAMS
“On any given day, most viewers are watching niche programming, from Rachel...”
– STREAMING DREAMS
“Your probability of dying during a given year doubles every 8 years. For me, a...”
– Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
“You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks...”
– Andy Warhol