Streaming
A compilation of thoughts and ideas since my computer seems to crash all the time.
Dec 22
» Sage Advice
They’ll tell you that it’s the biggest day of your life. Don’t fall for it. They’ll sell you dreams in red and glitter and fairytales and gold. Don’t pick them up. They’ll add events and standards and expectations and examples to your plans. Don’t latch on. They’ll tell you that it’s the biggest…
(Source: mansitrivedi)
Dec 17
“ Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
— Iris Murdoch (via tokyohanna)
Dec 07
You Want a Social Life, With Friends
You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
To work hard every day. What’s true
Is of these three you may have two
And two can pay you dividends
But never may have three.
There isn’t time enough, my friends—
Though dawn begins, yet midnight ends—
To find the time to have love, work, and friends.
Michelangelo had feeling
For Vittoria and the Ceiling
But did he go to parties at day’s end?
Homer nightly went to banquets
Wrote all day but had no lockets
Bright with pictures of his Girl.
I know one who loves and parties
And has done so since his thirties
But writes hardly anything at all.
- Kenneth Koch
Dec 03
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“ A $20,000 increase in spending on leisure was roughly equivalent to the happiness boost one gets from marriage.
— National Institute on Aging, Professor DeLeire
(Source: The New York Times)
Jan 15
“ This whole crisis is like a big spring housecleaning — both moral and physical. There is no creative evolution if you don’t have dramatic moments like this. Bling is over. Red carpety covered with rhinestones is out. I call it ‘the new modesty.’
— Karl Lagerfeld (via NYT)
Mar 27
- Crowdsourcing
- Lifestreaming
- Social Shopping
- Portability
- Continuous Partial Attention
Is there any room left for new Web 2.0 applications or is just about finding widgets within an existing system?
Are you sticky or slippy?
In the world of web 2.0 ideas should be SLIPPY, not STICKY.
Sticky websites use lures and hooks to get people into the sites and lock them in.
Slippy ideas enable wide distribution of the brand in everyday life.
Everyone is a designer today.
