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A good reputation takes years to build, but just one bad experience can destroy it. So when balancing between tactical easily measurable goals like more clicks, and long term goals like trustworthiness, it’s essential to listen carefully to your instincts.
instinct vs data, via the google ventures library.
egypt hires PR firm, then arrests them.
FADE IN: EXT. OCEAN - CLOSE UP: WATER - MORNING LIGHT We are at the delicate interface between ocean and air...liquid and gas...the event horizon where molecules evaporate. This interchange is ethereal. Then, low frequencies rumble through depths...louder...closer, now... And the ocean surface is torn by a 46-foot catamaran and the ROAR of 2,700 horsepower, rocketing at us at 140 knots... OFFSHORE RACER: "BORN TO WIN" in PROFILE. AERIAL: "BORN TO WIN" ...has a canopy, low like a B-1 bomber and extends a half mile. It launches off two-foot swells, goes airborne, pushes to 150 knots with another 1,100 RPM left... .. A DEEPLY-TANNED PLAYER named NICHOLAS in Vuarnet wraparounds and buzz-cut white hair glides by... NICHOLAS (low) Burnett, what's crackin'? CROCKETT Nothing. TUBBS Maxin' and relaxin'. NICHOLAS (doesn't believe them) Sure. Change your mind; get inclined? Let me know... Whatever Nicholas is soliciting, Crockett and Tubbs don't want. (Nicholas brokers "go-fast" runs, moving loads from offshore into South Florida. Among guys who pilot offshore race boats, there are one or two who've never run a load, but no one's found them yet.) Meanwhile... CUT TO: [etc]
hannah höch. (took a kitchen knife)
FADE IN: We are in the belly of a wave. Light refracts in a constant collision of water. SLOW MOTION, the hallucinatory prisms, like liquid diamonds taking flight, dreamlike... EXT. OCEAN - DUSK Backlit against a flaming sun a solitary SURFER glides across the green glassy peak. TIME IS STRETCHED until his movements gain a grace and fluidity not of this world. Total Zen concentration. Body weight centered, eyes forward and on the next section. EXT. URBAN STREET - DUSK SLOW MOTION ON a black sedan. Creeping along store fronts. Past a Winchell's. PEOPLE splash steps down rain-washed sidewalks in DREAM MOTION. The sedan turns past the FIRST VIRGINIA BANK and into an alley. INT. BLACK SEDAN TWO MEN and ONE WOMAN in SUSPENDED TIME put on overcoats and hats. Under their hats strips of Scotch tape stretch taut from the base of their nose to their forehead, hideously distorting their features. Makes them look like human PIGS. the old | the new
2013 year end recaps:
an interesting confluence.
the west front.
(a million first steps)
The first known calculation of the (inverse) golden ratio as a decimal of "about 0.6180340" was written in 1597 by Maestlin in a letter to Kepler.
Although he primarily taught the traditional geocentric Ptolemaic view of the solar system, Maestlin was also one of the first to accept and teach the heliocentric Copernican view. Maestlin corresponded with Kepler frequently and played a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system. Galileo Galilei's adoption of heliocentrism was also attributed to Maestlin.[via]
Geometry has two great treasures: one is the theorem of Pythagoras, the other the division of a line into mean and extreme ratio. The first we may compare to a mass of gold, the second we may call a precious jewel.
_Johannes Kepler
cuban propaganda posters. (via the guardian)
john maeda leaves RISD to become the first design partner at kleiner perkins.
the way we're headed.
why you should move that button 3px to the left: trust increases when we get the details right.
(via)
'I guess it depends on how much one values human life, as against the inconvenience of having to look in the rearview mirror more often.' (via the economist)
Obama loved the new tech during his campaign, but now, in trying to reconcile two radically different operating structures (gvmt & tech) while being shielded from the harsh realities of the dev schedule and product status, he sure got burned.
They broke the page into its component parts and prepared a handful of alternatives for each. For the button, an A/B test of three new word choices—”Learn More,” “Join Us Now,” and “Sign Up Now”—revealed that “Learn More” garnered 18.6 percent more signups per visitor than the default of “Sign Up.” Similarly, a black-and-white photo of the Obama family outperformed the default turquoise image by 13.1 percent. Using both the family image and “Learn More,” signups increased by a thundering 40 percent.
(via wired)
vs
O: OK. On the website, I was not informed directly that the website would not be working the way it was supposed to. Had I been informed, I wouldn’t be going out saying “Boy, this is going to be great.” You know, I’m accused of a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m stupid enough to go around saying, this is going to be like shopping on Amazon or Travelocity, a week before the website opens, if I thought that it wasn’t going to work.
(via the wp)
In the early days of print, you had to understand the tech to run the organization. (Ben Franklin, the man who made America a media hothouse, called himself Printer.) But in the 19th century, the printing press became domesticated. Printers were no longer senior figures — they became blue-collar workers. And the executive suite no longer interacted with them much, except during contract negotiations.
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Like all organizational models, waterfall is mainly a theory of collaboration. By putting the most serious planning at the beginning, with subsequent work derived from the plan, the waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work. Instead, waterfall insists that the participants will understand best how things should work before accumulating any real-world experience, and that planners will always know more than workers.
Clay Shirky on Healthcare.gov
how to clearly indicate to the world that you've raised more money than you know what to do with (and that your product markup is too high).
design is increasingly an exercise in consensus building (with a few super-votes).
or does it secretly involve doing all the research, running user interviews, thinking hard about it independently, pre-conceiving an optimal proposal and recognizing a few false starts and dead-ends to avoid, and then slowly steering a client to that same conclusion such that it seems like a foregone conclusion, using cycles of user testing, feedback, and refinement to optimize the product? good designers can make you feel smart; great designers can make you forget them entirely?
sans & serif, old & new.
les frère frere-j.
the cost of convenience.
got €650K? now you too can become an EU citizen.
a serious plan.
built!
President Barrack Obama is one of 1.4 million Americans who take their dogs to work.
nick veasey.
(⌘-I)
conde nast is sued, closes intern program.
any architectural interns with good lawyers?
jan gehl quits and denounces sydney barangaroo waterfront development.
sounds like politicians and developers colluding to fill their coffers while flaunting 'people first design'.
kudos to him for shining a light on it before final permits are issued - hopefully the attention causes positive change.
with 90M users, flipbook raised 50M on an 800M valuation.
there is value in personalized news aggregators.
wish the whole album was this good.
ps: not produced by joaquin phoenix.
julie mehretu earned $5M for the goldman sachs mural.
production costs were, apparently, $4M.
this feels like a very sad story in the unravelling. woman has car accident at the wrong place, or is confused and angry and makes compounding bad decisions as she gets scared and runs away, police kill her with her daughter in the back seat. the whole congratulatory tone to all the quotes about the 'security apparatus working perfectly' and threaded through the reporting is a little disturbing.
