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"A large budget should define how well a problem is solved, never how many problems are tackled."

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:50:50 -0400

“A large budget should define how well a problem is solved, never how many problems are tackled.”

- Where to Draw the Line | The Intercom Blog

"People who want to join society will do so through an increasingly lengthy period of humiliation and..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 09:56:01 -0400

“People who want to join society will do so through an increasingly lengthy period of humiliation and struggle, and only through the help of their parents. Even before the recession, that was more or less true. It’s the dirty little secret of every middle-class person in their mid-thirties: Everybody’s parents helped them out. Who do you think is paying for all those summer internships? How many new parents do you think actually have enough money for a Bugaboo stroller, let alone a down payment on a first home? And if you don’t have a mom or dad who can help with ballet lessons for the kids or family vacations, God help you. America is becoming what it was founded to reject, what it has resisted throughout its history, a patronage society.”

- Print - The War Against Youth - Esquire

"The goal is great delivery, not great deliverables."

Wed, 16 May 2012 14:18:32 -0400

“The goal is great delivery, not great deliverables.”

- Intercom.io

"This isn’t conservatism: It’s a going-out-of-business sale for the Baby Boom generation."

Fri, 04 May 2012 17:43:53 -0400

“This isn’t conservatism: It’s a going-out-of-business sale for the Baby Boom generation.”

- Print - The War Against Youth - Esquire

"Once there is no revenue, there is no science, and it all just becomes finger in the wind..."

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:39:33 -0400

“Once there is no revenue, there is no science, and it all just becomes finger in the wind valuations.”

- Disruptions: Start-Ups Keep Revenue at Zero to Cash In on Acquisition - NYTimes.com

"Customers do not do what they say they do."

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:34:19 -0400

“Customers do not do what they say they do.”

- Would You Do This To Boost Sales By 20% Or More? - Forbes

"If you can’t convert a prospect in a 20 minute face-to-face meeting, it’s much harder to convert an..."

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:53:36 -0400

“If you can’t convert a prospect in a 20 minute face-to-face meeting, it’s much harder to convert an unaware visitor in 8 seconds on your landing page.”

- The 10x Product Launch

"The truth though, is that doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:04:36 -0400

“The truth though, is that doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you what you’ve been getting.”

- Seth Godin

"To combine new words with old words is fatal to the constitution of the sentence."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 23:09:42 -0400

“To combine new words with old words is fatal to the constitution of the sentence.”

- Words: Craftsmanship - Virginia Woolf

"We think content is that which we make because we are content people – we see content as a scarcity..."

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:52:14 -0500

“We think content is that which we make because we are content people – we see content as a scarcity we produce and control. Facebook and Google, on the other hand, see content everywhere – in the allegedly useless creations, chatter and links made by people in the course of their lives.”

- Jeff Jarvis

"In this view, deleveraging Wall Street means killing the goose. The next decade or so will answer..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:04:30 -0500

“In this view, deleveraging Wall Street means killing the goose. The next decade or so will answer the question of whether a Wall Street that’s built on a more stable foundation—and with smaller bonuses—can sustain the city the way the last one did. But as banks cast about for a new business model, the city’s economy will need to find new sources of growth (this is why the Bloomberg administration has aggressively courted the tech and science industries).”

- The End of Wall Street As They Knew It

"It’s really simple to explain: things are complex."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:12:52 -0500

“It’s really simple to explain: things are complex.”

- An economist somewhere

"The Net Generation is one I feel truly sorry for. Somebody born in 1980 would have been 17-20 during..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:02:52 -0500

“The Net Generation is one I feel truly sorry for. Somebody born in 1980 would have been 17-20 during the boom, 20-22 during the bust and 9/11 and then endured the mess that has been the past decade. It’s a recipe for schizophrenia, and that’s what you get. You have triumphalist stories like those of the Web 2.0 superstars, as well emerging adults (people in their 20s) living in their parents basements, stuck in anomie and despair.”

- The Evolution of the American Dream

"This idea of Colour is a problem for communication between those of us who work in the world of..."

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:48:21 -0500

“This idea of Colour is a problem for communication between those of us who work in the world of computers, where Colour does not exist, and those of us who work in the law, where Colour exists and is important. Lawyers will ask computer scientists questions about how to determine the Colour of bits (like “How can Friend Computer prevent the Commie Mutant Traitors from making illegal copies of files, while still allowing loyal Troubleshooters to use disk-copying equipment?”), and computer scientists will find it difficult to say anything in response that the lawyers can comprehend - because a big part of computer science is about understanding that Colour does not exist. Someone who cares a lot about what Colour the bits are, and spends a lot of resources on trying to answer that question, is a dangerous idiot if not a Commie Mutant Traitor. In intellectual property law the Colour of bits exists and is of absolutely paramount importance. A computer scientist who won’t tell what Colour the bits are is being deliberately unhelpful, and a computer scientist who denies the very existence of Colour (as any conscientious computer scientist must eventually do) is a dangerous idiot and/or a Commie Mutant Traitor.”

- What Colour are your bits? - Ansuz - mskala’s home page

"We find that things we look at—even in a casual, off-hand manner—are the things we think about."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:45:50 -0500

““We find that things we look at—even in a casual, off-hand manner—are the things we think about.””

- What To Fix

"There’s a fourth option: Start a company, build a great product, sell your product to your..."

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:45:17 -0500

“There’s a fourth option: Start a company, build a great product, sell your product to your customers, generate revenue, keep overhead low, grow slowly and carefully, take in more money than you spend, generate a profit, and decide your own fate on your own schedule.”

- Jason Fried

"No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds."

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:22:17 -0500

“No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.”

- Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky

"Some liberals suspect that the conservative changes of mind since 2008 are opportunistic and..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:53:31 -0500

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Some liberals suspect that the conservative changes of mind since 2008 are opportunistic and cynical. It’s true that cynicism is never entirely absent from politics: I won’t soon forget the lupine smile that played about the lips of the leader of one prominent conservative institution as he told me, “Our donors truly think the apocalypse has arrived.” Yet conscious cynicism is much rarer than you might suppose. Few of us have the self-knowledge and emotional discipline to say one thing while meaning another. If we say something often enough, we come to believe it. We don’t usually delude others until after we have first deluded ourselves. Some of the smartest and most sophisticated people I know—canny investors, erudite authors—sincerely and passionately believe that President Barack Obama has gone far beyond conventional American liberalism and is willfully and relentlessly driving the United States down the road to socialism. No counterevidence will dissuade them from this belief: not record-high corporate profits, not almost 500,000 job losses in the public sector, not the lowest tax rates since the Truman administration. It is not easy to fit this belief alongside the equally strongly held belief that the president is a pitiful, bumbling amateur, dazed and overwhelmed by a job too big for him—and yet that is done too.

Conservatives have been driven to these fevered anxieties as much by their own trauma as by external events. In the aughts, Republicans held more power for longer than at any time since the twenties, yet the result was the weakest and least broadly shared economic expansion since World War II, followed by an economic crash and prolonged slump. Along the way, the GOP suffered two severe election defeats in 2006 and 2008. Imagine yourself a rank-and-file Republican in 2009: If you have not lost your job or your home, your savings have been sliced and your children cannot find work. Your retirement prospects have dimmed. Most of all, your neighbors blame you for all that has gone wrong in the country. There’s one thing you know for sure: None of this is your fault! And when the new president fails to deliver rapid recovery, he can be designated the target for everyone’s accumulated disappointment and rage. In the midst of economic wreckage, what relief to thrust all blame upon Barack Obama as the wrecker-in-chief.

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- When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?

"An Apocryphal tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the..."

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:59:20 -0500

“An Apocryphal tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Without skipping a beat, Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?””

- The Economist

"The designs in these concept videos are free from real-world constraints — technical, logical,..."

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:42:53 -0400

“The designs in these concept videos are free from real-world constraints — technical, logical, fiscal. Dealing with constraints is what real design is all about. Institutional attention on the present day — on getting innovative industry-leading products out the door and creating consumer demand for them — requires relentless company-wide focus.”

- John Gruber