January 2011
17 posts
“It is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than...”
– — Clay Shirky, from this month’s Fast Company (via christinebeardsell.com)
How true!!!
(via futuresagency)
Nice! Although framed a bit differently, Einstein also talked about this: “We can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”.
“JP Morgan’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, complained bitterly last week...”
– Davos is like being on a different planet. But it seems bankers feel that way all the time | Business | The Observer
You seriously can’t make this stuff up.
“The artworld has a way of turning everything from the “real” world on its ear....”
– Are the fine arts the next digital frontier? We ask the VIP Art Fair
“Every big powerful technology company has met a new technology that has undone...”
– A VC: Building Better Social Graphs (continued)
“The challenge, then, is to re-organize the way books can interact so they have a...”
– Seth Godin
“In other words, perhaps it’s time for a Revealed Identity, as opposed to a...”
– Identity and The Independent Web - John Battelle’s Searchblog
“Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.”
– Tim O’Reilly (A classic)
“I think we can safely say the internet is going to stick around for a bit. It’s...”
– Ben Hammersley Doesn’t Get Flappy | Jack Move Magazine (via @zeigor)
“What we really need though is not cutting within the existing system, but rather...”
– Reader
“We can think of curation in the same way museums do; a museum curator typically...”
– goonth’s posterous
“Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet...”
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.
The Death of the Middle Man
entrepreneuradvocate:
“One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, ‘Wait – you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?’”
—Trent Reznor (via inky)
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