"In any organization, you rarely receive power. You take power. You wield power. The most powerful people will things to be done they don’t order them to be done. That is real power."
Monday 1/30/2012
Sunday 1/29/2012
So I created a room in the middle of the cafeteria, where everybody could see them in a glass-enclosed conference room. There are four standup positions, and when a vendor came in with a PowerPoint presentation, they plugged in this clock that starts at 30 minutes. When it counts down to zero, the green light flashes red, letting everyone know you’re wasting their time. (via Theodore S. Hammer - NYTimes.com)
"Unplugged from media’s live wires, however, our originality and rigour can come into play in a different, older sense that’s found in our capacity to make decisions, to act on our own initiative, to think freely, without fear of pre-emption. Much as we hunger for connection, we need to keep some sense of ourselves separate from the constant capacity to broadcast. We need tenses other than the present."
"So Apple, which claims to use the ePub format exclusively, has now created an incompatible, proprietary version of that format. And with iBooks Author they’ve added licensing terms that restrict what an author can do with the generated content."
"That’s right, two exclamation points because this blows my mind. John Tyler was the 10th President of the United States. He was born in 1790 and took office in 1841. His son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853, when Tyler was 63 years old1. Lyon had six children with two different wives2, two of whom were Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. (born 1924 when Lyon Sr. was 71) and Harrison Ruffin Tyler (born 1928 when Lyon Sr. was 75). They are reportedly both still living in their 80s."
"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."
Wednesday 1/25/2012
Obscura Digital, the creative tech agency behind this crazy live-action data visualization and this (even crazier) animated building facade, has unveiled surprisingly un-crazy headquarters in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood. (via Obscura Digital’s Stunning Headquarters Mix Techno Chic And Cali Woodsiness | Co.Design)
