THOUGHTS ON DESIGN, COMMUNICATION AND THE DIGITAL SPACE FROM THE BRAIN OF MATTIAS KINDELL

Curiosity is the most Powerful thing you own

Mattias — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:52:22 +0000

Watched James Cameron (TED) talking us through his curiosity for science and fascination with the fantastic. Somewhere at the end he coins the above quote, brilliant. And finishes with “Failure is an option, but fear is not”. I will go ahead and use my new favorite word for this, awesomeness! Go ahead and enjoy below.

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Making happy business happen and awesomeness

Mattias — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:56:14 +0000

Stubled across this brillianze from being followed by Kansas City’s @dustinj on Twitter… following the trail to Shake Gently (great reading) … reading about how tuff it can be to explain what you do in the ever eveloving digtial space at Made by Many (good stuff)… picking up awesomeness as a word that is used way to little… to a new service (to me at least) called Posterous, awesome… to the What Consumes Me blog (don’t miss this) and this brilliant venn diagram and article.

We’ve found things we want to do, and can be paid for, but we’re not the best game in town. Mediocrity is not a sustainable strategy. Being able to recognize your own weakness is a profound strength, and acting to improve what you do is key to any kind of long term growth and stability. Find the best talent and steal them. Learn how your competitors run their businesses, and copy what works.

What a journey! What awesomeness!
Seriously, isn’t it awesome what you can find through social technology, great content, brilliant people and the greater internet – it still just blows my mind.Similar Posts:

What advertising and culture can do to numbers

Mattias — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:26:45 +0000

Like the numbers and how Pingdom has made them interesting through good design. Via @jowyang.Similar Posts:

Need to move… problem solved

Mattias — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:49:00 +0000

On the topic of getting things done… here is a great example of creative problem solving. Two students from the Hyper Island school put this site together to aid their move. Got to love the power of the web for getting stuff done.
(Thanks c9 blog for the link.)Similar Posts:

Make change happen

Mattias — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:36:17 +0000

One just have to admire people with enough energy and drive to blow the hats of most and enough perseverance to make stuff happen. Jamie Olive is defiantly that. A pure passion for food that borders on the obscene, right where it should be. Attach a true cause to that and we now have our first food crusader. This video make one think, what happened to our priorities? Let’s make change happen.Similar Posts:

It’s beautiful, but do we really need another one?

Mattias — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:17 +0000

A very nice interface, some nice integration of features, got games, got music, got movies… Sounds kinda main stream now a days, right. Question is, do we really need another closed platform and content property? Is this driving innovation or just making islands out of it? I would spontaneously say no, lets go open and make the user make the decision on their terms.

Non the less, this thing is gorgeous – but will it make me move all my stuff… Similar Posts:

The Parts of the Equation

Mattias — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:31:41 +0000

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The way to learn …

Work, read, interact, play and most importantly create with your fingers

Mattias — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:26:17 +0000

Welcome iPad!

If you missed the hype by the brand with the ability to milk every rumor out of the worlds tech community, aka Apple, here is the link to the next step in mobile computing / interaction – Apple iPad. (warning: a lot of unbelievably, incredible, exciting, absolutely the best in there;) Got to love innovation!

I am gonna go and drool over this shiny new gadget a little more, lets discuss more later…

(A more sober view form Harvard Business Review worth reading after the drooling found here.)Similar Posts:

Eat it, I knew it.

Mattias — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:34:53 +0000

Sometimes you find answers to those vital questions in life. Finally I say!

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Let’s get over Social Media and go back to the internet

Mattias — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:58:54 +0000

We had web 2.0, we now have Social Media. What happened to the internet / the web? Both of the mentioned are evolution of the internet, as a technology and as a communication channel. Think Hugh (Gapingvoid) make a good point “the main point of the internet is to remove “barriers to socializing”. Everything else is secondary“.

Let’s go back to the internet and make it more social as intended.

Thanks Judith for the point.Similar Posts: