In case you were wondering. Being president is hard.
Author: Kanyi
gjmueller: A little off topic here, but eye-opening on your kid’s/students’ perceptions of marketing and branding. Does her opinion give insights into parent choices? My favorite: “That is on a controller that you use to control the TV at Ryan’s house.” When a five-year-old girl recognizes your brand logo, you’ve done it right. Of course, when your dad is in the logo design business, you might have a leg up. Adam Ladd’s daughter knows her […]
You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends.
bufr: I won’t name names, so we’ll call her Jane. Jane’s five closest friends are two engineers at Google, an engineer at Eventbrite, an architect, and her father (which is so cute), who is the president of a national soccer team in Jane’s home country. Jane graduated with a degree in Business… You Are the Average of Your Five Closest Friends.
The people who we perceive to be the happiest are those who go about their lives as if unfazed by failure, and who strive with an astonishing regularity towards improving themselves while in the presence of negativity. Not to mention the fact that not only do they appear to be getting better at whatever it is that they are doing, but they also seem to stop and help others along the way. twitter.com/heycheri
Xmas came from India, powered by @Etsy! (Taken with instagram)
Mark Zuckerberg gets tagging lessons from David Choe. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Communicating Community.
I used to think of communication in one-dimensional terms: using language to represent our empirical observations to each other. The Internet has taught me some incredible things about how we communicate with each other, and what creates community. We have ideas, we need a medium of expressing them. The most popular medium is language, which engages our intellect using shared conventions (logic, cultural context, etc.). With the widespread adoption of sites like Instagram, Pinterest, Path, […]
For Hollywood to be killed, the Internet needs to focus on a metric other than eyeballs. It’s not about mass, it’s about good. That’s absolutely anti-YouTube and anti-Farmville and any other content which we expect to be rapid, mass and disposable. Disposable content isn’t bad, it’s just not everything. And as long as that’s all that the Valley is putting out, we won’t kill Hollywood. Killing Hollywood Will Require Learning Hollywood’s Game | PandoDaily (via […]
I was in the mood for a mash-up. So sue me. Cut Copy and The Dream. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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