June 2009
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The Feast Salon
dihard:
Yesterday I attended alldaybuffet’s The Feast Salon and was quite inspired by all aspects of the event.
First – The space: MEET at the Apartment.
Located at 101 Crosby Street, Meet is a highly stylized loft created to provide an intimate space to hold events and business meetings. It is “intuitively outfitted with idea-generating essentials,” and is really just beautiful. What a great...
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Toward a theory of information relativity →
People will also believe that they understand something when they don’t really understand it. Have you ever left a meeting where everyone seemed to be in agreement, yet their later actions made it clear that they didn’t agree after all? It’s common to see nodding heads in a room when people don’t agree – they think they agree but in reality they don’t. This is because when an explanation is...
was going cleaning up some of my contacts
stammy:
in my address book, adding their emails, websites, etc, so i could sync across mobileme, import to google voice, etc, etc. and this dude whose vCard i have.. has 5 phone numbers! okay i have 4 phone numbers but 5 is just pushing it jratlee!
haha sorry man! i’m on par with you now and only have 4. got rid of the land line you prob have in there. i’ll shoot you a note w/ the...
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“Word of mouth is a byproduct of a remarkable culture.”
– Ben McConnell
this is the beginning and the end. it has to start somewhere. if you don’t have it - find it, create it, foster it. there is no shortcut here. if you can’t take the heat, get out of the fucking kitchen.
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“Increasingly the choice of whether to adopt, or opt-in to a technology is one of...”
– Practices Around Privacy - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect (via slantback)
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“For me, experimentation is not about the technology. In an ever-changing...”
– Ze Frank. He seems to be hinting at this: maybe your efforts are better spent trying to make something within existing technology, instead of chasing after the next big thing. (via dailymeh)
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sharing, not caring.
consider it the minor leagues for things that interest me:
google reader
tumblr
btw, tom’s wedding was pretty awesome.
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“So folks on Twitter have been turning their avatars (little profile photos)...”
– Signaling and Solidarity (via josephweisenthal)
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Questions for Buzz Aldrin →
You gave yourself communion on the surface of the moon. Are you still a churchgoer? No. My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
pretty interesting read about his personal life, Pixar shorting him some cash, and - most importantly - how the U.S. isn’t focusing space exploration correctly.
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it's a shame
tratlee:
So i went to the movie theater with my sister tonight to watch the hangover. Hilarious movie by the way. What got on my nerves though is the fact that people talk so much in the theater, myself included. People are talking, cell phones are out, and i can literally feel the lack of connection between the viewer and whatever is on the huge ass screen that STILL can’t command your...
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Benefit-Driven Metrics: Measure the lives you... →
Thus we come back to the title of the post. Most people are using standard analytics packages that are commoditized to focus inwards on metrics like pageviews and revenue. To use an analogy, that’s akin to the idea of measuring the # of life preservers that you sell, and trying to optimize for that, rather than optimizing for the benefit, which is the # of lives saved.
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By/Association | Manifesto →
It’s not about getting help with your current need or project. It’s about connecting to people that make you better — to inspire more action, better ideas, and new ways of seeing the world.
via tina
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bermuda was a nice, relaxing vacation. i still need to take some more steps to reconnect with myself a bit more. some of that will be reflected here.
more to come when my personal computer resumes functioning.