September 2009
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“At its core, our vision is based on a very simple principle: that sometimes...”
– Barry Wacksman, Chief Growth Officer, R/GA
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“Traditional marketing is about pushing messages out to people who don’t...”
– Me
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“It’s interesting to note that there are no robot plumbers or robot baristas....”
– “Robot ad executives are coming”, Alex Bogusky’s Posterous
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Watchbenjaminpalmer:
Protect Insurance Companies PSA (feat. Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, Thomas Lennon, Donald Faison, Linda Cardellini, Masi Oka, Ben Garant, Jordana Spiro, lauren, Drew, and chad_carter)
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“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because...”
– Seth Godin (via ambivalence) (via infoneernet)
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“One man who has suggested that more American troops are not the answer is...”
– How Many Troops to Secure Afghanistan? - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com (via buyhercandy)
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“If I had to pick one decision which played the pivotal role in the financial...”
– From this fantastic blog post by the Epicurean Dealmaker.
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I went to see The Whitlams at the Corner Hotel a...
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“The problem of consulting is the problem of the “knowledge economy”...”
– “Masters of illusion: the great management consultancy swindle”, The Independent. Thanks to somethingchanged for the link!
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Dreams from my life
I’ve been spending some time today thinking about how I can achieve my three major goals in life:
Get myself an appearance on the The Sartorialist
Go on a date with Audrey Tattou
Submit a winning New Yorker cartoon caption
Anyone got any brilliant ideas?
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“Today we still have the same amount of debt, but it belongs to governments....”
– Nassim Taleb, “We still have the same disease”
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“Stephen Fry once said that he didn’t much have an opinion on corporal punishment...”
– I spent my teenage years attending a rather brutal Australian boarding school, closely modeled after Eton and Harrow. I agree with Stephen Fry - I don’t know whether I think it’s good for kids to grow up in that tough environment. But I do know that it leads to a toughness and confidence...
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“But Barack Obama, bourgeois in every way that bourgeois is right and just, will...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates in “Flip and Pop My Collar Like The Fonz” (via britticisms)
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Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction →
minimalmac:
I was recently reminded of this gem of an article, written by Cory Doctorow, offering his favorite tips on getting writing done in our ever connected, ADD world. Love this part:
Kill your word-processor Word, Google Office and OpenOffice all come with a bewildering array of typesetting and automation settings that you can play with forever. Forget it. All that stuff is distraction,...
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“I don’t care what you fuckers think! You can get fucked!”
– Prime Minister of Australia Kevin Rudd. This is how I would talk to parliament if I had to deal with them all day.
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Goldfrapp to score John Lennon biopic | News |... →
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“It was less like West Wing and more like The Office.”
– Matt Latimer on working for President George W. Bush. Writer reveals Bush’s barbs (via indefensible)
“I’d like to advance a hypothesis: awesomeness is the new innovation.”
– Umair Haque, The Awesomeness Manifesto (via vasta) (via benkraal)
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“When executives at a healthcare provider wanted to improve the experience for...”
– From a Forrester report on ‘Experienced Based Differentiation’ (making customers happy)
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“See if you can catch yourself complaining, in either speech or thought, about a...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via michaeltrounce)
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“Happiness doesn’t come only from having deep, heart to heart talks. It comes...”
– “Can I Catch Happiness from my Twitter Community?” via @madebymany
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“Trading in Lehman Brothers stock continues apace, with the opportunistic and...”
– The inmates are running the asylum (via FT Alphaville)
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Delaying Your Social Media Marketing: Lose... →
wongobongo:
Social media vs. email: (Nielsen) In an eye opening finding “Visiting social (media) sites is now the 4th most popular online activity- ahead of personal email” Social networking is instant communication with real time engagement and discussion-something email will never emulate
Social networking accounting for 10% of all internet time: (Nielsen) time people spend on social networks...
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“Most people don’t think of themselves as gamblers; they prefer to think of...”
– From this fascinating post by Scott Locklin.
“On Hipsters: “I’ve always found that word [“hipster”] is used with such disdain,...”
– Gavin McInnes (Vice magazine) (via nebraskabean) (via withabang)
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“Reform Suggestion Seven: Eliminate Tax Deductions for Health Care Expenses.
Do...”
– From Philip Greenspun’s plan for U.S. health care reform. It is depressing reading something that makes so much sense, on such an important issue, yet understanding that implementing it would be so fundamentally impossible because of the politics of the situation.
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“Every critic has (or should have) her or his own favorite critical joke. Mine is...”
– Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
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“Unfortunately, nothing will ever be the same because the art and passion of...”
– Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, from the chapter rather dramatically titled “An Elegy for the Canon”