Blog
- February 14, 2014
Career Lessons from Don Draper
“You are too young to be counting your ideas” “Everything is an opportunity to you” “… that’s what the money is for!” Mad Men is gold.
- February 12, 2014
Adaptive Content
One of the most insightful talks on content strategy. Karen McGrane on Adaptive Content Content should be designed for reuse and ‘platform agnostic’ (forget web first or print first). The idea that you are not in the magazine publishing business, you are not in the web publishing business, you are in the content publishing business, […]
- February 11, 2014
Philanthropy by the Wealthiest
Fact: The richest eighty-five people in the world have the same combined wealth as the poorest half of the population. (source: Oxfam report) With wealth distribution so perversely skewed, does philanthropy by the most affluent among us make up for the negative consequences of inequality? Peter Buffet, Warren Buffet’s son, wrote: As more lives and […]
- February 7, 2014
The Only Interview Question that Matters
“What single project or task would you consider your most significant accomplishment in your career to date?” And some follow-up questions: What were the 3-4 biggest challenges you faced and how did you deal with them? Where did you go the extra mile or take the initiative? Walk me through the plan, how you managed […]
- 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 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 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 […]
- January 22, 2014
Coca-Cola Small World Machine
Nevermind it is from a corporation that I am indifferent to, this ad campaign is pretty cool. “[Coca Cola] connected two vending machines to each other—one in India and one in Pakistan. These machines allowed people to talk, “touch” hands, trace drawings together, and dance with each other. That Coca-Cola had the audacity to connect […]
- January 22, 2014
Maths for Love
This story is yet another example of the power of data. How a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find True Love. “I think that what I did is just a slightly more algorithmic, large-scale, and machine-learning-based version of what everyone does on the site,” McKinlay says. Everyone tries to create an optimal profile—he just had […]