May 2013
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The wake
I’m not sure if it has to do with today’s big purchase, but I’ve already seen two of the blogs I love close their doors.
Maybe it’s just made people think a
lot about their blog’s place in the world. Either way, you’ll be missed.
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Just applied, for this super cool job over at Photojojo. Fingers crossed it works out. Would be quite the adventure to give both Photojojo and SF a shot :)
Wish me luck!
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“I should not be this sad about the sale of a website. I should not be this sad...”
– Laura Olin
Everything’s going to be OK. (via kateoplis)
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“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time...”
– Haruki Murakami (via hellanne)
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The Day Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion →
parislemon:
Allison Fass reporting on Peter Thiel’s talk at SXSW this year where he recounted the time in 2006 that Mark Zuckerberg turned down Yahoo’s $1 billion offer to buy Facebook:
His only partial rationalization at the time was that in the history of Yahoo, it had made two $1 billion offers that were also turned down. And those were to eBay and Google. “At least I could actually make a...
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Just being honest...
I’m rather depressed this weekend at the notion that Yahoo is in the process of buying Tumblr. The rumored reason is that Yahoo wants to buy the 18-24 market. News flash, I’m not for sale. You can’t buy me. (and I’m not even in that market anymore ;D)
Tumblr as a product is very nice but nothing new, there’s a ton of blogging platforms. There’s nothing overall...
“Whatever happens, this place was something special for me, and continues to be...”
– SoupSoup on Tumblr’s [upcoming] sale (via msg, tiffany)
Ditto.
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“Some of the most consistent innovators of the modern era have also been among...”
– Thomas Frank on the bullshittery of the “creativity” industry (Thx, jndevereux!)
1.1 billion eh?
le sigh
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There’s something about a spider racing at inhuman speed up the front of your shirt.
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Open iTunes. Don’t have iTunes? Download it.
Go to the iTunes Store. You’ll find it if you are determined enough.
Search for “Random Access Memories”. Yeah, that’s right.
Click on that shiny metal robot face.
Hit the “stream” button.
Find a project to crush for the next 75mins.
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“While much can be said for self-improvement, there comes a time when it is more...”
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“Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you...”
– Erma Bombeck (via thisisteariffic)
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“WordPress is great for designing client sites and blogs, but so many designers...”
– Naked Wordpress (via jonathanmarcus)
So many of these ‘designers’ aren’t actually designers, they’re copy-pasters and button pushers with inadequate development skills who just want to make something “pretty”, and so they rush into it and start building without bothering to dig into the codex.
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Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468... →
staff:
One of our Tumblr favorites is now a book! Congratulations, Kelly. :)
Join us in NY tomorrow night to celebrate and hear tales of failure from grown-ups like our own Caragh Poh.
Props to Kelly for getting the book out. She’s a lovely person, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with her on her current blog theme/design. There’s some solid advice in that blog, and...
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“A filmmaker who prefers ideas to images will never advance above the second rank...”
– 8 1/2 Movie Review & Film Summary (1963) | Roger Ebert (via merlin)
The same could be said for writers in regards to ideas vs. words/sentences/paragraphs.
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CS6 is the last Adobe suite you'll "own". From... →
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Where to publish my thoughts and writings?
It seems silly, but I have this continuous battle over where I should be publishing. All my options have their own pros and cons when it comes to “ease to publish” and “possible audience”.
I’ve narrowed it down to the following options,
My personal site/portfolio.
My tumblr (this one).
A separate tumblr just for long form writing.
Yes, I’m over thinking...
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the...”
– Stephen R. Covey (via creatingaquietmind)
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Why do so many artists care so much about what others think of them and their work?
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“On the flights to games, I read history books. Basically, I was a secret nerd...”
– This article “20 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 30” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is pretty cool. (via jayrobinson)
Good stuff.
April 2013
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“The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via epikhi)
Mmmmm…
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Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: “We’ve... →
cameronmoll:
Frank Chimero: One of the problems with the prevalence of solutions is it overvalues invention and undervalues behavior. We look for a gizmo, when changing how we act can have the desired effect. It seems like we’ve been hoodwinked into a trap of technological dependency. But, technology is…
I couldn’t agree more, and it’s certainly a topic of thought that has...
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Dear people that make me lose faith in mankind,
Be thankful for all the people that let your shitty, selfish, impatient, or otherwise difficult-to-be-around self slide today. They have helped you have a better day. Tomorrow, consider being a decent human being.
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March 2013
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“Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about...”
– Taken from a piece in The New Yorker by Christoph Niemann detailing the experience he had creating an app, Petting Zoo. Via Jason Kottke. (via simpledesks)
To put it another way.
“Simplicity in execution is the art of exposing the soul of something.”
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