July 2010
13 posts
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A series based on Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles of... →
“Look at your marketing campaign, now back at Old Spice’s. Sadly, your campaign...”
– via The Atlantic Blog (via margolatka)
“There are many orthodox explanations for today’s great jobs crisis. All...”
– umair on the The Construction of Unemployment
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn...”
– Art Linkletter
American Drink: Rules for My Born Son. And You. →
1) Be polite and smile your brains out, but let the bartender flirt first. Always provide a number, never ask for one. 2) Decide what you will order on the drive to the bar. Eye contact is key, never wave money to get attention. 3) Vodka and Coke? That better be a joke. 4) If a song is longer than five minutes, save it for the blacklights and the basement. If the song is Meatloaf, congrats on...
Take a Moment and Think
“The realtime web has become a habit. It’s a twitch. I do it without thinking. More importantly, when I succumb to the reflex of checking it every few minutes or seconds, I do so at the expense of thinking. When is the last time you stood in line at a bank without checking your iPhone? What about waiting for a long stoplight or sitting at a restaurant counter? Those moments, now dominated by...
“To know how good you are at something requires the same skills as it does to be...”
– John Cleese on creativity (via simmy)