Seriously what is the like button all about?! (Taken with instagram)
Secret Stash (by yiting cheng)
via @purplesime
“The three orders of reality:
* 1st order: The reflection of a profound reality
* 2nd order: The simulacra masking the absence of a profound reality
* 3rd order: The simulation No relation to reality whatsoever, it pure simulacrum”
“It increasingly turns out that the Twitter I signed up for – the Twitter in my head, as it were – is the MVP of something else. And now, the MVP is fading away and the something else is taking over… But my mental model is stuck around five years ago, when I signed up.”
Infovore » The point of Twitter
Hear hear!
TEDxDubai 2011 | The Beauty of Small Things | Main Titles (by METAphrenie)
Mesmerizing…
Zimoun : Compilation Video V2.8 | Sound Sculptures & Installations (by ZIMOUN)
‘A Study Of Time’ by rAndom International 2011 (by rAndom International)
“The Critical Engineer observes the space between the production and consumption of technology. Acting rapidly to changes in this space, the Critical Engineer serves to expose moments of imbalance and deception.”
dadaBox - making dadaism tangible (by jifei ou)
“As a distributor we have to do what is best for our labels. The majority of which do not want their music on such services because of the poor revenues and the detrimental affect on sales. Add to that the feeling that their music loses its specialness by its exploitation as a low value/free commodity. Quoting one of our labels “Let’s keep the music special, fuck Spotify.”
Tea a 16 column grid and a pencil - ideas imminent (Taken with instagram)
"Our Unpaid, Extra Shadow Work"
The other night at the supermarket I saw a partner at a downtown law firm working as a grocery checker, scanning bar codes. I’m sure she earns at least $300,000 per year. Even so, she was scanning and bagging her purchases in the self-service checkout line. For those with small orders, this might save time spent waiting in slower lines. Nonetheless, she was performing the unskilled, entry-level jobs of supermarket checker and bagger free of charge.
This is “shadow work,” a term coined 30 years ago by the Austrian philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich, in his 1981 book of that title. For Dr. Illich, shadow work was all the unpaid labor — including, for example, housework — done in a wage-based economy.
In a subsistence economy, work directly answers the needs of life: gathering food, growing crops, building shelters and fires. But once money comes into play, a whole range of tasks arises that do not address basic needs. Instead, such work may enable one to earn money and buy both necessities and, if possible, luxuries. To do the work requires extra jobs, like commuting. The commuter often has to own, insure, maintain and fuel a car — and drive it — just to get to work and back. These unpaid activities ancillary to earning one’s wages are examples of shadow work.
(via notational)
Social Space
Well worth the read, nice collection of social principals
(Graham Brown) Social Space View more presentations from Graham Brown (mobileYouth)
A good rule of thumb for every brand: don’t talk about great service, do great service (Taken with instagram)
Dom's 9 Thoughts on Building Great Products
A nice tight list of guide to making great products, read it in full at domgoodrum
- Observations FTW
- Create loops
- Finding your form
- Deliverables eat babies
- Fast is better than accurate
- Design for surfaces
- Avoid ugly baby trajectory
- Your first guests
- Believe in the comeback
