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All posts by ling
- February 3, 2014
Europe’s Tech Hub?
It helps you warm up with fresh ideas, encourages you to become an entrepreneur. A whole team of cheerleaders is present at the start. And after the first kilometer, with 41 to go, you are on your own. The system bashes you, the entrepreneur, with taxes, asks you to pre-finance VAT, expects you to know […]
- January 30, 2014
Do What You Love?
Interesting piece in Slate.com: In the Name of Love DWYL is a secret handshake of the privileged and a worldview that disguises its elitism as noble self-betterment. […] DWYL is, in fact, the most perfect ideological tool of capitalism. If we acknowledged all of our work as work, we could set appropriate limits for […]
- January 29, 2014
Exceptionalism
When second chances are only handed to the exceptional few, it exacerbates inequality and creates resentment. We are witnessing this more often than we care to admit: Ivy leagues, Wall Street and increasingly, Silicon Valley. William Deresiewicz, a former Yale faculty member, explains the difference in culture between elite private schools and more open public […]
- January 28, 2014
Product Management
1. Your job is to deeply understand the problem that your product aims to solve then chase the moving goal of solving every nuance of that problem. 2. Being a product manager is about making compromises between what your team can accomplish within a given period of time and what your customers absolutely need. 3. […]
- January 27, 2014
Failure(s)
In a world where 99% of startups end in failure, there’s a wealth to be learned from this deadpool. It’s prolly a hard truth to swallow, but most people who fail don’t succeed in the end And failure is only ‘marketable’ for a very small number of times. Your big break is your first movie, […]
- January 26, 2014
Twitter, in short
It feels as if we’re all trying to be a cheeky guest on a late-night show, a reality show contestant or a toddler with a tiara on Twitter — delivering the performance of a lifetime, via a hot, rapid-fire string of commentary, GIFs or responses that help us stand out from the crowd. We’re sold […]
- January 25, 2014
World’s Best Father
This series of picture is priceless! Can I hear an awwwwwwwwww? (source)
- January 24, 2014
Content Marketing
Source: How to Create Faster Relationships with Influencers Written by Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute 1. Social Media 4-1-1 For every six pieces of content shared via social media (such as Twitter): – Four are pieces of content from your influencer target that are also relevant to your audience. This means that 67 percent of […]
- January 24, 2014
From Fixed to Fluid Information
“What if the real attraction of the internet is not its cutting-edge bells and whistles, its jazzy interface, or any of the advanced technology that underlies its pipes and wires? What if, instead, the attraction is an atavistic throwback to the prehistoric human fascination with telling tales?” – The Cluetrain Manifesto Not having a paper […]
- January 23, 2014
Medium
Just wanted to say one for the record: I freaking love the design of Medium‘s website. And they have just outdone themselves with this latest series of visual storytelling. They talk about the best strategies for visual stories and the content is pretty solid. Read up. An example of a fictional photo story: The Visitor […]