links for 2009-06-24
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"every decision is based on a time perspective...optimal profile: past-positive: High (roots), future: Moderate High (wings), present-hedonism: Moderate (energy)
links for 2009-06-12
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"“Find a happy person, and you will find a project.” – Sonja Lyubomirsky
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I want to go to there
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Clever stuff from Ji Lee. Took me a few seconds to get #8
links for 2009-06-07
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interesting set of slides that makes some great observations around "discovery" and "attention"
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"I don’t know why we take our worst moods so much more seriously than our best ones, crediting depression with more clarity than euphoria."
links for 2009-06-03
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"Plenty of brands are in trouble right now because they're not sure if they represent Luxury or Premium products."
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"the Obama plan dilutes the company’s focus. Instead of thinking obsessively about profitability and quality, G.M. will also have to meet the administration’s environmental goals. There is no evidence G.M. is good at building the sort of small cars the administration demands. There is no evidence that there is a large American market for these cars. But G.M. now has to serve two masters, the market and the administration’s policy goals."
links for 2009-06-01
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We're living in a world where the ability to imagine and generate new ideas with speed and to implement them through global collaboration is the most important competitive advantage.
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Despite the comfort factor of dilly-dallying, it is not a truly enjoyable past-time. In fact, it slowly eats at my self-confidence and sense of purpose. It is enjoyable in the sense that it is not painful, but it is not rewarding in itself. Enjoyment as lack of unenjoyment is the lowest form of enjoyment.
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20 San Francisco day trips
links for 2009-05-31
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The bit about UPS is pretty crazy, along with lots of other interesting ideas
links for 2009-05-30
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some great old school pro basketball photography
links for 2009-05-26
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"I want to think seriously about what I can accomplish with what's left of my life"
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looks like a painting, feels like sculpture, reads like a map
links for 2009-05-25
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“What we do,” Vaillant concluded, “affects how we feel just as much as how we feel affects what we do.”
links for 2009-05-22
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a 42 second film titled "Last Day Dream". Subject: a man watches his life pass before him
links for 2009-05-20
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video demo of WiiSpray 2nd edition....perfect for a projector setup
links for 2009-05-18
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The music video for the song 'Alice', an electronic piece of which 90% is composed using sounds recorded from the Disney film 'Alice In Wonderland'.
links for 2009-05-15
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when technology doesn't live up to our expectations, we just have to accept that "you know what, this is as good as it is right now"
links for 2009-05-14
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Their desire wasn’t defeated—it was merely forgotten. “If you’re thinking about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you’re going to eat it,” Mischel says. “The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place.”
links for 2009-04-28
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"And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy."
links for 2009-04-27
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Rather than setting concrete targets, we should aim to set learning goals. A learning goal is where someone pledges to come up with, for example, five approaches to a thorny problem - rather than a performance goal that assumes that the problem will automatically be solved. "How can I X....not just X".
links for 2009-04-24
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great talk - I'd love to be able to download the designing/DB skills of Mr. Veen
links for 2009-04-13
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The notion of speaking openly, honestly and objectively about work is inherent to learning how to be a better X...."This is why art, film and architecture have achieved such great heights in our society: those art forms are economically robust enough to support a vibrant critical class."
links for 2009-04-11
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(he especially knows how to sell business cards)
links for 2009-04-09
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some of the best writing I've seen so far on the current financial crisis. Long read, but well worth it.
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78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt by the time they have been retired for two years, because of joblessness or divorce. An estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement.
Relatives are not the only ones foolishly trusted with athletes' money. One up-and-coming guard in the NBA allows his entire fortune to be managed by his former AAU coach, who has the player's power of attorney.
By common estimates among athletes and agents, the divorce rate for pro athletes ranges from 60% to 80%.
links for 2009-04-05
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broadcast vs. boxee
links for 2009-03-31
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Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "on" and "off" when clicked.
links for 2009-03-16
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start about a 1:30 seconds into the video
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"Think about your job. Can you write out, concretely, what you would have to do to be a failure at it? If you can't then maybe you don't really do anything. Or, think about something you have faith in or hold in high esteem. Can you articulate, exactly, what would have to happen for it to lose your respect? If you can't, maybe it's closer to worshiping than believing."
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A good strategy is to remove as many elements from its life as possible — to ‘take it easy for a while’. This reduction of activity lowers the overall noise levels of the nervous system, so it’s easier to ‘hear oneself think’. The calm brain can now spend its precious calories on analysis of its own operation, instead of on outward-facing behavior and the feedback it produces...Its range of potential behavior will have expanded, because it can now choose to do (or not do) the things it was previously doing automatically.
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"Jump and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall" - Ray Bradbury
links for 2009-02-27
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no clear pattern - Techmeme has way more than anyone else at 1,081 (compared to ESPN with only 207). Would like to see this list sorted by category - ie: how do the various news sites compare with each other?
links for 2007-01-25
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someone will die trying to replicate this
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"This is a very conservative document -- that's what makes it so scary."
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Advertising in magazines pretty much sucks and historically, "content network" ads on Google aren't good -- they suck down the majority of my ad budget and almost never generate conversions (sales).
links for 2007-01-23
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Despite our brand, reach, and market share, however, we failed to recognize the awesome power of the new search business. Whether this failure was the result of an obsession with more traditional forms of media, the distraction of trying to survive the f
links for 2007-01-22
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"I have really started to question the value of user-generated content when it’s open to the general public, especially with such a wide audience. They seem to only cater to the lowest common denominator"
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I wish this article were a 100 pages long...so much I want to know about the early days of Flickr
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The main difference was their attitude - they were problem-centered, meaning they treated life’s difficulties as problems to be solved, not personal troubles to be surrendered to. They believed the journey was often more important than the destination
links for 2007-01-19
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"That's not amnesia! It's classic journalism technique. You have to build them up before you can take them down. See Obama, Barack."
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discussing Google's shifting focus from products to features. Also how they'll be looking to simplify and integrate more going forward.
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cool new tool from Microsoft adCenter labs
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when the device debuted in Japan it was met with stunned silence: "It was as though the audience didn't know how to react"...also surprising how much mom's opinion was considered.
links for 2007-01-17
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VC-derived marketing budgets at launch don't help if the service isn't addictive. And if the service is addictive, spending marketing money at launch will not contribute to your success. You'll spend it on the wrong things as your users' passions will sur
links for 2007-01-12
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Answer: It wouldn't suck at all, and I'd bet a lot of people would like/use it.
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looks pretty slick
links for 2007-01-11
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Using Google Maps to get you driving directions and maps, for example, is just light-years simpler and more powerful than on any other machine, thanks to this “rubber Web page” stretching technology.
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Social Bookmarking and Video up, search and blogging down
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“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”...Guess what? They’re just walking in.
links for 2007-01-09
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a "user hierarchy of needs" chart
links for 2007-01-08
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along with descriptions why
links for 2007-01-04
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“Last week we hired six people who had below a 3.0 G.P.A.”
links for 2007-01-02
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Yahoo Personals grabbed the top rank on every measurement. This great overall performance shows a balance of both driving traffic to the service, and encouraging active participation.
links for 2007-01-01
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amazing to see how simply it started out - definiltey following the "Create a simple product as fast as you can, then get feedback from customers and make it better."
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one of the best videos I've seen in a while (best played with the volume turned way the fck up)
links for 2006-12-22
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Diener, a second-year player, has averaged 13.3 points and 53 percent in his past three games.
links for 2006-12-20
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He's not putting down Gilbert's game so much as the meaning of Gilbert's game. And it's perfectly consistent with the way Kobe has communicated his game for at least the last few years.
links for 2006-12-15
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Flickr continues to impress with a really slick implementation of this Camera Finder. Like a photo? See what camera was used to take it and what others are saying about it, and how usage is trending over time. It just works, and it works great.
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If anyone has figured out the drawbacks of Google's new transferable option plan, please weigh in, because at first glance it looks like a win all around. (Which begs the Q: Why haven't other companies done this and why does Google seem to be the only Val
links for 2006-12-13
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AD: We have to design it. LD: I thought we were embracing their design. AD: No, Jobs has good lawyers. We need to do lots of extending.
links for 2006-12-12
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the synthetic ball absorbs moisture at a much slower rate, leaving more of the moisture on the surface. By contrast, our measurements indicate that the grip of the leather ball improves after similar moistening.
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Seriously, click those images and look at the full-sized versions. They're remarkably similar. Even the toolbar in the Google version of the picture has bits of Yahoo still in it.
links for 2006-11-30
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The point is that it’s for all these reasons that you picked up this book. Now the question is this: Will you actually read it?
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Failing fast means you invest less time in the things that don't work. Ironically, teams that fail fast improve as fast, if not faster, than those who try to get it right the first time.
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step 1 to being interesting? be interested. also, making is the new thinking.
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“It’s a laboratory - You get a real feel for human behavior under the threat of physical harm.” In this lab he has identified a phenomenon he calls the game quitter. - Game quitters, seem “as if they are trying to win, but really they’ve given u
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