Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
Algorithms today feel similar — we’re given little ability to choose where we’re going. We’re being fed content, post after post, pushed in directions predetermined by an amorphous representation of your interest. We get the dopamine hits, and we find ourselves entertained but are often left with a tinge of emptiness at the end of a binge. A... See more
River
Influence by Robert Cialdini, what you realize is that many things are successfully sold by opposites. Everybody has one of these, so it must be good. Or: not many people have one of these, so it must be good. You can achieve the same emotional effect with opposite messages. There are two great ways to check into a hotel. One of them is totally... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
What is important in my opinion is that the room is honest, so there is no patronising.
*Niklas Maak
*When is a room honest?
*Charlotte Klonk
*Well, as soon as what is being aimed for becomes obvious to the viewer. What remains too subliminal, for example, are the colour nuances in the new display of the collection in the Nationalgalerie. If visitors
Niklas Maak • The white cube and beyond Museum display
research: history of the white cube
Love this idea that we spend time optimising and finding the right background colour to show work
Steve Jobs - Look at each person as % of hiring. If 3/10 are not great that’s 30% of your company. Why would you start a company like that?
Just as you are there to nurse the dough in the window it requires to get the result you want. You can’t do steps 1-8 of a recipe, then decide you’re tired, leave it for 2 days and come back to do steps 8-10 hoping for the same result. This sounds so ridiculous you wouldn’t even try it! Because you know it wouldn’t work. And yet this is how many of... See more
Revisit and you must strike when the iron is hot
I do love this baking metaphor. It doesn’t match properly but it’s close enough. You know that when you write or do something you must first create leave it and come back not too long after to review the work, taste adjust remove before doing the final steps. You have to strike while the iron is hot and follow through
