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November 11, 2009
October 29, 2009
The Wire is like Shakespeare. No matter what you’re experiencing, you can find a line or a scene that makes sense of what you’re going through. Obviously the parallels here only extend as far as the first line - ‘I feel old’. But you get where I’m going.
October 24, 2009
"Strategy needs to be flexible: it needs room to move. You can’t think of every single outcome, every possibility, but you need to build it out to allow for you to change tack at any given moment if things aren’t going in the right direction."
— Kripy
October 22, 2009
This album was my whole life in 1996. I listened to it on my Dad’s walkman on the school bus every day.
October 20, 2009
Julieta Venegas
When I was living in Mexico, this was a really big chart album. I first heard it playing on a stereo in a cemetery on the night of the El Día de los Muertos. ‘Lento’ was the first song I’d heard in Spanish where I could instantly make out every word of the chorus.
When you’re learning a new language, there some moments like that, where words just becomes clear.
The chorus is really simple:
“Ser delicado y espera
Dame tiempo para darte
Todo lo que tengo”
It means: “Be delicate and wait, give me time so I can give you all that I have.”
Anyway, I was checking referrer stats in We Are Hunted’s analytics recently and one of our top referrers via Twitter has been @julietav - which is none other the the Julieta Venegas. She has music taste too. Through her Twitter, I discovered this amazing cover of ‘My Girls’.
The world gets smaller when you’re online.
October 18, 2009
Taken By Trees - My Boys (Animal Collective cover)
October 17, 2009
Georges Polti's 36 Dramatic Situations
This is an exhaustive list of enduring and real human dilemmas.
October 16, 2009
https://www.getdropbox.com/
From Y Combinator to Sequoia. This looks like the start of a great story.
October 15, 2009
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In advertising, and also editorial, when people have 2 days, the briefing is much better, and the discussion is much better. It’s not that people just sign off on anything because they’re in a hurry. They’re just really looking at what they have, and trying to make the best product, and get it done.
If the anxiety is about the deadline, then the energy really focuses on the result. If there is not anxiety about a deadline, all of the anxiety goes right to the creative part.
"— The 99%
October 14, 2009
How artists conduct business.
(via stellavista & letters of note)
When I’m rich, I will have this framed in my bathroom.
October 13, 2009
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it."
— Steve Jobs (via hrrrthrrr)
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
— Ghandi (via davemorin) (via tedr) (via mikehudack)
"The messages that received the highest scores had three things in common: they contained something of substance, were timely, and provided the kind of information that users expected from the source company or organization. "
— Jakob Nielsen on user satisfaction with corporate communications via social media.
Vonnegut' 8 rules for writing a short story.
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
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