(via Facebook Changes – Everybody Panic! — TweetFindTV)
So true: WE are the content of Facebook the broadcaster- it’s free but they sell our information!!
(via thenextweb)
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Startup people are generally optimists about new ideas. They get excited about an opportunity to solve a problem - even if the solution doesn’t work or there isn’t really a problem. Most of the time they’re wrong.
Normal people are pessimists. They often see no reason to try something new. Most of the time they’re right.
They don’t realize that being wrong 99% of the time is just fine. You only need to be right once.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
—William A. Ward (via skillshare)
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/the_four_phases_of_design_thin.html
In a business setting, asking basic “why” questions can make the questioner seem naïve while putting others on the defensive (as in, “What do you mean ‘Why are we doing it this way?’ We’ve been doing it this way for 22 years!”). But by encouraging people to step back and reconsider old problems or entrenched practices, the designer can begin to re-frame the challenge at hand — which can then steer thinking in new directions. For business in today’s volatile marketplace, the ability to question and rethink basic fundamentals — What business are we really in? What do today’s consumers actually need or expect from us? — has never been more important.
At the recent The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Dave Wiskus, designer and Creative Officer at application developer and design house Black Pixel, took to the stage to discuss the crucial importance of understanding your user when it comes to technology design.
Design is often the first thing to get cut from a budget, but Wiskus argues that in an increasingly competitive market, you need to care about it to stand out and make something truly great. He believes that design shouldn’t just be the domain of designers and developers – it should be an ethic that permeates entire companies.
You can watch his talk in full below and catch our interview with him here. Don’t forget to catch up with all the Conference videos and all of our coverage.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It is easy, of course, to fear happiness. There is often complacency in the acceptance of misery. We fear parting from our familiar roles. We fear the consequences of such a parting. We fear happiness because we fear failure. But we must overcome these fears. We must be brave. It is one thing to speculate about what might be. It is quite another to act in behalf of our dreams, to treat them as objectives that are achievable and worth achieving. It is one thing to run from unhappiness; it is another to take action to realize those qualities of dignity and well-being that are the true standards of the human spirit.
—Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato (via modernhepburn)
(Source: gaws, via cognacandcoffee)
joel.is: Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom
Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that perhaps by looking at the founders behind these “overnight successes”, it will become clear that…
