"When you cherry pick, you lose integrity. You lose the below-the-surface aspects of what makes something great. You cut the invisible strings that hold the whole thing together. You wind up with a mash-up instead of something that’s got soul."
Matt Linderman, Cherry picking is the enemy of the soul (via davidkaneda)
"If you work on something for five years, that’s more than 20 percent of your productive work life. Most people don’t think about that, but it’s the main thing I think about. I think about it all the time, much more than money. Because the only thing we can’t make more of is time."
Dean Kamen, in the fascinating fly-on-the-wall book by Steve Kemper, Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition (via jackcheng)
(via tmblg)
“It happens when nobody is watching”, a high-tech anti-domestic violence advertising for Amnesty International, by ad agency Jung von Matt. It includes an eye-tracking camera that makes the image change from a scene of domestic violence to a photo of a happy couple when someone looks at it. (Via copyranter.)
I hate how the Vista advertisements rave about how parents can limit their kids’ time spent on the internet. One parent says, “…because sometimes I catch them up at 2:00 in the morning still surfing the web.”
I attribute 100% of my web and graphic design skills to the fact that I spent an insane amount of time on the computer in my youth. I wasn’t playing. I was learning.
Startups in 13 sentences
- Pick good cofounders.
- Launch fast.
- Let your idea evolve.
- Understand your users.
- Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.
- Offer surprisingly good customer service.
- You make what you measure.
- Spend little.
- Get ramen profitable.
- Avoid distractions.
- Don’t get demoralized.
- Don’t give up.
- Deals fall through.
(Via factoryjoe.)
Twicker Experiment
Twitter trends with Flickr photos (built this while procrastinating for more important things)
"Do what you’re about. Please."
Gary Vaynerchuk (via simplebliss)
"Don’t bullshit, build shit."
via mikehudack
via davidkaneda
(via mikehudack)
