February 2012
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Globalization: More than a MBA buzzword
In today’s economic climate, one would be hard pressed to deny that we have a global economy – just follow the NYSE each day as news regarding Greece’s debt crisis is released. Yet money is not all that ties the world together. More and more goods and services are coming from more and more foreign countries; our classrooms are filled with more and more international students and our offices with...
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“But what makes it really fascinating is that it’s the democracy of the Internet...”
– Chris Sims at Comics Alliance marvels at the power of fans.
As of this moment, Order of the Stick has raised over $331k and is on track to become one of Kickstarter’s 10 Most Funded projects of all time.
Mind. Blown.
(via ensignau) Ours, too. (via kickstarter)
What can we learn from...
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“Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep...”
– The Hill Approach – Seth Godin on the secret of career success. See also this timeless advice on overcoming fear in creative development. (via)
January 2012
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How Evernote Rethought Their Service, And Invented... →
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IKEA Urbanism: A New Era In Urban Design? — The... →
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Will the new era of architecture be the era of IKEA urbanism? IKEA has proposed to build a complete neighborhood in East London. The Swedish furniture giant tries to implement its ideas and concepts in new fields of knowledge and urbanism. After its injection of each single family’s interior with cheap design furniture and the introduction of the IKEA standard house by...
December 2011
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Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing... →
Kickstarter is funding an era of product development uncompromised by focus groups and committees.
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Elasticity of Water
I teach innovation workshops. Often. I stand at the front of an auditorium and shake corporate audiences out of their stupor. I remind the middle-aged that their minds are elastic. If only they chose to stretch them. I assign homework: drive home a different route; talk to your spouse about a difficult subject; read a religious text that is not your own.
But here, sitting in the lobby of my...
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November 2011
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The Myth of Monotasking - HBR IdeaCast - Harvard... →
Sarah Green from HBR interviews Cathy Davidson from Duke, who has written a book about the science of attention. A fascinating discussion about the perceived impact that technology has on our attention span, and why multitasking is actually good for our brains.
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Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker →
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Malcolm Gladwell reviews Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It suggests that Jobs was much more of a tweaker than an originator. He suggests that Jobs’ genius was making something better, not necessarily new.
“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. The tweaker inherits things as they are, and has to push and pull them toward some more...
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What Makes a Brand Meaningful (and does it...
A new study about how brands are perceived around the world reveals information worth considering. Turns out, most people don’t care about the brands they buy and wouldn’t even notice if 70% of the brands didn’t exist. But, what is interesting is this:
“According to the survey, 85 percent of consumers worldwide expect companies to be tackling major problems, whether...
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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Choose Your Bullets →
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Monterrey-based industrial designer Jorge Diego Etienne has crafted Choose Your Bullets - a pen holder in the shape of a bullet chamber of a gun. Etienne describes the desk accessory…
“Choose Your Bullets reminds us that corruption and bad decisions can be more harmful than violence….
July 2011
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“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense...”
– Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut (via kateoplis)
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WatchFreelance designer Robert Hoffman has created a modular lighting system called… Modular Lights. Quite the minimalist. Via designer Carl Barenbrug:
“Designed for the Karena Schuessler Gallery, the lights comprise of flat aluminium square sheets, which are jointed to create a cuboid form. By turning and tilting the flat surfaces, one can direct and spill lines of light across a wall or...
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Keeping Language Alive Through Texting →
(via Kottke.org)
Young people in Chile, the Phillipines, and Mexico are using endangered regional languages to communicate and express themselves online and via text messaging.
Herrera also discovered teens in the Phillippines and Mexico who think it’s “cool” to send text messages in regional endangered languages like Kapampangan and Huave. Almost as soon as text messaging...
June 2011
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Here's What Happens At a Busy NYC Intersection(via... →
Ron Gabriel lives in NYC and wants “to show our interconnected role in improving the safety and usability of our streets.” Instead of writing some tired editorial, the visual artist pointed a camera at a busy New York City intersection and recorded what happens when cars, bikes and pedestrians…