March 2011
3 posts
“There’s something to be said about a glass half full. About knowing when...”
– “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005) - Memorable quotes
February 2011
6 posts
“You don’t create a culture. Culture happens. It’s the by-product of consistent...”
– You don’t create a culture - (37signals)
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch on Creativity - Max Kiesler – Designer
“Children don’t choose their parents,” he once said to me....”
– Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior - WSJ.com
“If you love someone, you should love them for who they are.
both the good and...”
– via khemacitto
January 2011
6 posts
“Twitter makes me love people I’ve never met and Facebook makes me hate...”
– Derek Bertelsen
“Singapore has based its educational system on the expectation that its graduates...”
– Made-in-Singapore Entrepreneurs
Dakota - A Promise I Make
December 2010
2 posts
“Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience...”
– Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, in 1.0 Is The Loneliest Number
“At Apple they refer to their brand as a person in the room, “Apple...”
– http://twitter.com/johnmaeda/status/11714001939464192
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
1 post
April 2010
2 posts
July 2009
5 posts
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“If you wait long enough, people will surprise and impress you. When you’re...”
– Jon Snoddy
June 2009
31 posts
“说了又不听,
听了又不懂，
懂了又不做，
做了又做错，
错了又不认，
认了又不改，
改了又不服，
不服也不说，
那叫我怎么办?”
http://you-talking-to-me.com/ →
“If I Flickr your YOUTUBE, will you Twitter my Yahoo?”
– #geekpickuplines
Design Skills for Strategy: the short version
Here’s an abridged version of four core design considerations that provide unique value to strategic decision-making:
Pattern Recognition: allows us to identify relationships within information. (the data).
Story Telling: gives us a way to organize data into something meaningful by focusing on a big idea and supporting messages (the synthesis).
Visual Hierarchy: gives us a way to tell the...
What are you optimistic about? →
The Optimist Conspectus is simply a survey of optimism; a series of answers to a deceptively-simple question: What are you optimistic about?
It bears no commercial viability. It has no lofty world-changing goal. Rather, it is a series of snapshots that aim to paint a larger picture. How that picture looks will depend both literally and figuratively on your own perspective - and whether you choose...
