May 2012
19 posts
“A customer is a novel and stable pattern of human behavior.
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An...”
– Marketing, Innovation and the Creation of Customers
“Marketing and innovation play a zero-sum game driven by the clarity of the...”
– Marketing, Innovation and the Creation of Customers
“Never underestimate the basic laziness of people before handing them tools.”
– Scott Foe’s Web Log: Opinion: What The Fuck N-Gage?
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“For a few minutes, the most-watched stock in the world behaved like a...”
– How Facebook’s IPO Got Hijacked by Computers (via iamdanw)
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“Writing is the connective tissue that creates understanding.”
– Please Learn to Write is Rands at his concise best.
“Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual...”
– F.A. Porsche on Design
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“If you think about the tone of my story, some of the main themes were time...”
– [From Print to iPad: Designing a Reading Experience
“[T]he world that produced Friedman and Thomas no longer exists. Their expertise...”
– The coming bubble of obsolete advice | Eric Garland
“Only recently have I come to understand that the real-life feeling of “romance”...”
– How to Ditch Happily-Ever-After and Build Your Own Romantic Narrative - Lifestyle - GOOD
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“The plethora of online Photoshop tutorials demonstrate its power and its...”
– Rands In Repose: Two Universes (via nikf)
Paging James Paul Gee…
“Exposition and condensation are in fact the fundamental learned behaviors that...”
– Rediscovering Literacy
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“I was shocked to read [Ted Nelson’s] justification for why Xanadu must be built...”
– Casey A. Gollan: Notes + Links: Weeks 12, 13, and almost 14.
These posts are long (I must have spent ten to fifteen minutes this morning reading this one) but I love the insight into what he’s thinking about. This part in particular of a longer set of thoughts on Ted Nelson’s Xanadu and similar...
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“If modern science has learned anything in the past century, it is to distrust...”
– Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science
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“I’ve noticed today, that quite a few people were coming here after googling...”
– Nevolution: The Eamespunk Manifesto (via iamdanw)
Let’s make this happen.
April 2012
45 posts
“There’s always this sense that art is just play,” says Peter Plagens, a New York...”
– No sympathy for the creative class - Art in Crisis - Salon.com (via humanegames)
“[T]he mistakes that produce these regrets [of the dying] are all errors of...”
– Errors of Omission
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“All of our societies are rife with sexism, which is founded on misogyny. It’s...”
– Misogyny
“Now, the world is full of people designing models, project enclosures,...”
– MAKE | CNC Panel Joinery Notebook (via iamdanw)
Noted for later reference.
Also, when did makezine start using that horrific “onswipe” theme nonsense?
“So let’s consider “bad tech-art.” What does it look like? Well, it is, commonly,...”
– Generation Generator (New Aesthetic) | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com (via iamdanw)
Outsider art: not just creepy paintings of clowns anymore.
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“The weirdest experience of the night: pushing a Portal button, the one I’ve seen...”
– Ridiculous Minigolf « Tom Scott (via iamdanw)
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“Often the narrative shell of a game (“you are the specially trained commando who...”
– Manovich: Database as a Symbolic Form (via slavin)
“The reason the formula is generally dangerous, and a formula for failure, is...”
– A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
“The process [of high-modernist authoritarian design] doesn’t always lead to...”
– A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
“[MRI] subjects’ brains tend to go crazy when a white noise (high Shannon...”
– A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
“High-modernist (think Bauhaus and Le Corbusier) aesthetics necessarily lead to...”
– A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
“The book is about the 2-3 century long process by which modern states...”
– A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
“The more I examined these efforts at sedentarization, the more I came to see...”
– A Big Little Idea Called Legibility
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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility →
The Authoritarian High-Modernist Recipe for Failure
Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city
Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works
Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations
Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to...
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Nursing Your Rabbit Through GI Stasis →
Current reading.
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Josh Clark vs. Jakob Nielsen →
When you see a “full desktop site” link on your phone, you’re looking at an admission of failure.
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“Time moves in one direction, memory in another. We are that strange species that...”
– William Gibson, Distrust That Particular Flavor
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(via naranzarian)