Apple under siege
I recently experienced a small epiphany: I think the never-ending worry about Apple’s future is a good thing for the company. Look at what happened to those who were on top and became comfortable with their place under the sun: Palm, Blackberry, Nokia…
In ancient Rome, victorious generals marched in triumph to the Capitol. Lest the occasion go to the army commander’s head, a slave would march behind the victor, murmuring in his ear, memento mori, “remember you’re mortal”.
Excellent analysis by Jean-Louis Gassée. The doomsayers have been wrong for about 6 years.
An app that saved 10 000 lives
An app that saved 10 000 lives
This week, the start-up heard from its 10,000th user who said the site saved her life.
It’s a wonder no one every thought of that before. It’s a free startup idea for countries outside the US, by the way.
An app that saved 10 000 lives
bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/0…
This week, the start-up heard from its 10,000th user who said the site saved her life.
It’s a wonder no one every thought of that before. It’s a free startup idea for countries outside the US, by the way.
The Twitter bio is a postmodern art form, an opportunity in 160 characters or fewer to cleverly synopsize one’s professional and personal accomplishments, along with a carefully edited non sequitur or two. It lets the famous and the anonymous, athletes and accountants, surreal Dadaists and suburban dads alike demonstrate that they are special snowflakes with Wes Anderson-worthy quirks.
The art of Twitter bios dissected in this NYT piece.
The Twitter bio is a postmodern art form, an opportunity in 160 characters or fewer to cleverly synopsize one’s professional and personal accomplishments, along with a carefully edited non sequitur or two. It lets the famous and the anonymous, athletes and accountants, surreal Dadaists and suburban dads alike demonstrate that they are special snowflakes with Wes Anderson-worthy quirks.
But as Grignon drove north, he didn’t feel excited. He felt terrified. Most onstage product demonstrations in Silicon Valley are canned. The thinking goes, why let bad Internet or cellphone connections ruin an otherwise good presentation? But Jobs insisted on live presentations. It was one of the things that made them so captivating. Part of his legend was that noticeable product-demo glitches almost never happened. But for those in the background, like Grignon, few parts of the job caused more stress.
This is the story behind the unveiling of the first iPhone on June 9th, 2007. A nice read on the NYT.
Here is the video if your memory is failing you.
But as Grignon drove north, he didn’t feel excited. He felt terrified. Most onstage product demonstrations in Silicon Valley are canned. The thinking goes, why let bad Internet or cellphone connections ruin an otherwise good presentation? But Jobs insisted on live presentations. It was one of the things that made them so captivating. Part of his legend was that noticeable product-demo glitches almost never happened. But for those in the background, like Grignon, few parts of the job caused more stress.
This is the story behind the unveiling of the first iPhone on June 9th, 2007. A nice read on the NYT.
Here is the video if your memory is failing you.
Can you tell the difference between modern art and children art?
Can you tell the difference between modern art and children art?
Buzzfeed published a quiz ABCNews commissioned in 2005. It asked artists and an art historian to tell apart modern art and art by children.
Can you tell the difference between modern art and children art?
Buzzfeed published a quiz ABCNews commissioned in 2005. It asked artists and an art historian to tell apart modern art and art by children.
Each car is fitted with around 100 sensors throughout the vehicle. The sensors gather data about temperature, g-forces, spin—and other things—and feed it back to the garage off to the side of the track, where it is analyzed by a team of engineers.
Combining speed of the car and speed of communication seems to be a winning duo for Red Bull Racing, the team that has been dominating Formula 1 since 2010.
Each car is fitted with around 100 sensors throughout the vehicle. The sensors gather data about temperature, g-forces, spin—and other things—and feed it back to the garage off to the side of the track, where it is analyzed by a team of engineers.
There is a lake in Tanzania with a pH level so toxic, it essentially turns any animal that touches it into stone. Photographer Nick Brandt captures the horrific beauty of these petrified animals in his book Across the Ravaged Land.
Whoa.
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There is a lake in Tanzania with a pH level so toxic, it essentially turns any animal that touches it into stone. Photographer Nick Brandt captures the horrific beauty of these petrified animals in his book Across the Ravaged Land.
Whoa.
“Breaking Bad”, whose finale airs on September 29th, takes place in a recession-ravaged America where most people are struggling to get by on stagnant incomes but a handful of entrepreneurs live like kings. The hero, Walter White, is a high-school chemistry teacher with a second job in a car wash. When he is diagnosed with cancer he is also shaken out of his lethargy: he decides to go into the highly lucrative methamphetamine business to pay for his cancer treatment and leave his family a nest-egg.
Business lessons from Breaking Bad, courtesy of The Economist.
“Breaking Bad”, whose finale airs on September 29th, takes place in a recession-ravaged America where most people are struggling to get by on stagnant incomes but a handful of entrepreneurs live like kings. The hero, Walter White, is a high-school chemistry teacher with a second job in a car wash. When he is diagnosed with cancer he is also shaken out of his lethargy: he decides to go into the highly lucrative methamphetamine business to pay for his cancer treatment and leave his family a nest-egg.
Five cognitive distortions of people who get stuff done
Five cognitive distortions of people who get stuff done
Interesting list, although I am quite skeptical of people’s capacity for correct overgeneralization; making universal judgements from limited observations and being right a lot of the time.
Five cognitive distortions of people who get stuff done
www.farnamstreetblog.com/2013/09/t…
Interesting list, although I am quite skeptical of people’s capacity for correct overgeneralization; making universal judgements from limited observations and being right a lot of the time.
The journey of guitar solos.
