May 2012
6 posts
“A large budget should define how well a problem is solved, never how many...”
– Where to Draw the Line | The Intercom Blog
“People who want to join society will do so through an increasingly lengthy...”
– Print - The War Against Youth - Esquire
“The goal is great delivery, not great deliverables.”
– Intercom.io
“This isn’t conservatism: It’s a going-out-of-business sale for the Baby Boom...”
– Print - The War Against Youth - Esquire
“Once there is no revenue, there is no science, and it all just becomes finger in...”
– Disruptions: Start-Ups Keep Revenue at Zero to Cash In on Acquisition - NYTimes.com
“Customers do not do what they say they do.”
– Would You Do This To Boost Sales By 20% Or More? - Forbes
April 2012
1 post
“If you can’t convert a prospect in a 20 minute face-to-face meeting, it’s much...”
– The 10x Product Launch
March 2012
2 posts
“The truth though, is that doing what you’ve been doing is going to get you...”
– Seth Godin
“To combine new words with old words is fatal to the constitution of the...”
– Words: Craftsmanship - Virginia Woolf
February 2012
2 posts
“We think content is that which we make because we are content people – we see...”
– Jeff Jarvis
“In this view, deleveraging Wall Street means killing the goose. The next decade...”
– The End of Wall Street As They Knew It
January 2012
3 posts
“It’s really simple to explain: things are complex.”
– An economist somewhere
“The Net Generation is one I feel truly sorry for. Somebody born in 1980 would...”
– The Evolution of the American Dream
“This idea of Colour is a problem for communication between those of us who work...”
– What Colour are your bits? - Ansuz - mskala’s home page
December 2011
3 posts
“We find that things we look at—even in a casual, off-hand manner—are the things...”
– What To Fix
“There’s a fourth option: Start a company, build a great product, sell your...”
– Jason Fried
“No medium has ever survived the indifference of 25 year olds.”
– Institutions, Confidence, and the News Crisis « Clay Shirky
November 2011
3 posts
“Some liberals suspect that the conservative changes of mind since 2008 are...”
– When Did the GOP Lose Touch With Reality?
“An Apocryphal tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the...”
– The Economist
“The designs in these concept videos are free from real-world constraints —...”
– John Gruber
October 2011
3 posts
“I think we are reaching a point where as much as we need to ask “Will it fax?”...”
– Brand New
“Jobs’s “first go-round at Apple, the company used to pride itself on being the...”
– Print - Steve Jobs and the Portal to the Invisible - Esquire
“Our problem is not that we don’t have enough stuff — it’s that we don’t have...”
– Are jobs obsolete? - CNN.com
September 2011
3 posts
“Mark Zuckerberg wants you to share. He doesn’t much care if you want to...”
– Slate
“But there’s a dark side behind the advance of productivity: Cheaper goods need...”
– The Greater Recession: America Suffers from a Crisis of Productivity - Derek Thompson - Business - The Atlantic
““During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British...”
– Marginal Revolution
August 2011
8 posts
“Minsky, who has followers on both the left and right, argued: socialise the...”
– BBC News - What to do if the double dip is real?
“Minimum viable products are about learning what you need to build.”
– Ryan Singer
“It’s a bad idea to raise taxes on working Americans in a weak economy and with...”
– Marginal Revolution
“So let’s review: We are increasingly taking easy credit, routine work and...”
– A Theory of Everything (Sort Of)
“The institutions of advanced economies are being ever more perfectly tuned for...”
– Umair Haque
“A young person could be forgiven for believing that the way in which economic...”
– Generation F*cked
“The best money during the nascent years of a business is patient for growth but...”
– Clayton Christensen
“That was what the currency union always implied: entire peoples had to change...”
– It’s the Economy, Dummkopf! | Business | Vanity Fair
July 2011
2 posts
“Interesting & Interested
… it helps to be both. These are the two...”
– Seth Godin
“Iteration is not an excuse to release a crappy product.”
June 2011
3 posts
“Stuck is a state of mind, and it’s curable.”
– Seth Godin
“The information is true enough. It is slanted. It is propagandistic. But it is...”
– True Enough
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
– A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
May 2011
1 post
“Jobs imagines his garbage regularly not being emptied in his office, and when he...”
– http://www.macstories.net/news/inside-apple-reveals-steve-jobs-anecdotes-apples-little-known-facts/
April 2011
1 post
Game theory is essentially the mathematics of incomplete information.
March 2011
1 post
“The next time you’re puzzled by the behavior of a colleague or prospect,...”
– Seth Godin
January 2011
1 post
Politics in its purest sense is nothing more than resource allocation.
September 2010
1 post
“What gets measured, gets managed.”
– Peter Drucker
July 2010
8 posts
““American cities, New York is the best example, are designed to...”
– New Geography
Capital Gains
Even though capitalism is based on the concept of equality, it’s the concept of inequality that makes it successful.
Dreamy
We are so intimately intwined with advertising that it has invaded our intimate relationships.
“We don’t really keep secrets, our secrets keep us.”
– Carroll University COM203 class
“Advertising relates to our dreams, not our lives.”
– Carroll University COM203 class
Demographics v. Psychographics
Demographics don’t matter anymore. Psychographics are what’s important to the marketer. Why can’t people understand this.