http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/521165580/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l0uprdKhPC1qatcg0?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fearbuds.popdose.com%2Fwill%2FKylieMinogue%2FNickCave%2520-%2520Where%2520The%2520Wild%2520Roses%2520Grow.mp3 Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave. One of the oddest pairings ever. I find this song so satisfying, though.
Author: Kanyi
On Why Family Works.
*DISCLAIMER* This is very much a freewheeling random post. Don’t read it if you want something data-driven or “productive”. Also, none of this takes into account the fact that there are genetic traits that may or may not lead to compatible dispositions. I’m more interested in the notion of circumstance. I’m also using zero data to back up these claims. Just musing. If a number of people are trapped in an elevator for long enough, […]
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/520130567/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l0uqcjtTHJ1qatcg0?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carnivalsaloon.com%2Faudio%2Fmacktheknife.mp3 I first encountered this song watching “Un Prophete” an excellent Audiard movie that some call the “anti-Shawshank”. I said out loud, when I heard it. “Wow. Jimmie Dale Gilmore? Get outta town.”
Groupon just raised a round at a $1.2B valuation. http://tcrn.ch/dg8DHo That is so not small.
This is just perfect. (Hat tip @adampritzker) (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
putorti: blech: “Infographic” (by Phil Gyford, repurposed under a by-nc-sa Creative Commons licence). Previously. no offense to my infographic creator friends (you know who you are). this is just funny.
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/512637127/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l0pd2iBeXC1qatcg0?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fkanyi%2F512637127%2Ftumblr_l0pd2iBeXC1qatcg0 100th Tumblr post is in honor of one of the greats, Jackie Wilson. Here’s “To Be Loved.”
On Design in Business
I was talking to a friend earlier today about how design thinking, and designers in general, are so incredibly critical to addressing the dynamic needs of consumers in a market where we’re getting increasingly inundated with products, not all of which solve new problems. As the iPad has proved – well, is proving – and as I’ve mentioned before, there isn’t necessarily a convergence where a panacea product emerges to solve all of our fire […]
http://kanyi.tumblr.com/post/511467421/audio_player_iframe/kanyi/tumblr_l0njywzjEM1qatcg0?audio_file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fkanyi%2F511467421%2Ftumblr_l0njywzjEM1qatcg0 Marvin Gaye and the Pixies. Like Disney movies, I usually think mash-ups are the easy way out. And like Disney movies, I nearly always find them enjoyable. This one especially so.
Bruce Lee playing ping pong. ’[this video’s] so dope, it shoulda came with two syringes.’ (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Musings 