Ideas I want to write about
Remaining in the context of New York, it could look like this... The Right is fear-mongering about the dangers of everyday life in the city, while the Left doesn’t want to admit that the city has gotten progressively more dangerous. The Right doesn’t want to admit that police officers aren’t doing their job, and the left doesn’t want to admit we de... See more
Reggie James • Political Expectations
To opt out, though, is to be excluded.
Adam Aleksic • how the algorithm keeps you under control
Magritte's work feels like permission to get weird, to surrender to fantasy, to wear fewer clothes—or no clothes at all—to experiment, flirt, be curious, and get a little unhinged. It is a time to mingle with the mythical creatures that exist in perpetual summer, unicorns and nymphs endlessly trapped in a lush dreamscape. And doesn't summer always ... See more
René Magritte, Gertrude Abercrombie, and Alex Katz Feel Like Summer
@shreyas IMO the best product will stem from a very strong mental model of the domain and the users. UXR can help you *get* to such a model, and validate it along the way, but it's important to view the syllogism as UXR -> model -> product, not UXR -> product.
Patrick Collisonx.comWhat brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.
Reggie Casagrande • The evolution of Energy Marketing from Street Culture to Main Street
Who does your business work for? If your only goal is profit, then it seems to serve only one group — the shareholders. But they’re only a part of the ecosystems your business belongs to.
Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:
And they’re all equally important. Tha... See more
Every company — big or small — serves six stakeholder groups:
- Customers
- Employees
- Shareholders
- Business partners
- Society
- Regulators
And they’re all equally important. Tha... See more
We Threw Out Our Bold Vision — and Only Then Did Growth Begin
Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says nothi... See more
Miguel • Issue #341: How to Earn Money from Your Writing
In America the best image wins. The President can’t be brat, and we love a survivor. It’s that simple sometimes.