January 2011
What Your 16-Hour Workday Says About You!
jessiechar:
You’re a really hard worker
Your time is poorly managed
You don’t know what to do with your life
Your boss knows you’re gullible
At least 40% of your diet consists of pre-packaged food
You send out work emails at inappropriate hours
You have no perspective on life
You don’t sleep enough for proper brain function
You have very little self-respect
Your salary should be higher,...
from Dan Ariely: "Social hacking" →
attention industry: The internet is not made of... →
attentionindustry:
This is my manifesto for 2011, and I’ve been putting off writing it.
It’s going to bother some people, and it might even change a few opinions of me. But it’s important, and not just because it’s been driving me nuts for six months.
The internet is not made of hugs.
By this I mean, it’s time…
I’m either here to piss you off, or to get you off your ass,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-16) →
Daft Punk (26)
Bloc Party (17)
Arctic Monkeys (17)
Jay-Z (16)
Das Racist (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
attention industry: The experiential uncanny... →
attentionindustry:
The current state of ‘intelligent’ websites is buried in the uncanny valley.
Similar to how computer animation has a point of extreme creepiness when it is close, but not quite accurate to replicating human gestures and expressions, technology has the same curve.
When services like Google…
Inspiration
Lots of people seem to use the word “inspirational” to refer only to things that motivate them, remind them of their positive potential, and increase their hope for their future.
That’s a limiting definition.
I’m often inspired by things that make me angry, make me sad, make me ill. By small, mundane things that I just hadn’t noticed before. By things that scare...
A Biopunk Manifesto →
Time vs. Money vs. Usable Time.
For most of my life, I’ve been nonstandard in my view of time vs money, especially given the relatively limited amount of money I’ve ever had available to spend. I’m almost always willing to put conservation of time (and at times effort) ahead of conservation of money.
Meaning, I’ve never been very good at saving money, because for me, it was something collected to pay...
“Ambition can be misread as impatience.”
– Arnold Rothstein (via nedhepburn)
I will need to learn this at some point.
"Death of the Phone Call" regarding "glanceable"... →
New Marketing Firm to Target Coveted Comic Geek... →
Nike Better World →
DAMN fine brand site. Beautiful, and focused on all of the stories that ACTUALLY need to be told, because we all know they make running shoes.
attention industry: Calling Bullshit on... →
attentionindustry:
I resolve to stop being impressed by comments about gamification unless we all agree that games need more than points and a leader board and awards.
Points are great for tracking progress, but the number in the corner of my book goes up the closer I get to the end. A book isn’t a game, regardless of that rising number.
A leader board is a great way to tell who’s winning,...
“i have a daydream that we will one day be judged by the content of our...”
– fighting my twitter stream via my tumblr stream (conflicted social hive mind syndrome)
Last night, my mother asked me what Pete...
And I couldn’t answer coherently, other than ‘seriously, everything’.
Now, I SHOULD have mentioned that he was in Inception and the Town last year, and was great in both of them. I also should have mentioned Usual Suspects, Romeo + Juliet, The Constant Gardener, and any of the other things I’ve seen him in.
But he disappears into movies. And that’s the talent and...
