August 2011
14 posts
“As we have tried to come up with a strategy and a vision for Apple, it started...”
– How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997) - garry’s posterous (via Faruk Ateş)
“The most important thing this site does for me is give me a creative outlet to...”
– Five & Ten | Jason Santa Maria
Reprogramming Digital Distraction →
Douglas Ruskkoff’s latest book, Program or Be Programmed, declares that technology has biases that reinforce certain behaviors over others. To help correct for these biases, he proposes ten principles to live by when we engage with digital media. Two of them resonated with me as they relate to digital distraction: 1) don’t always be on, and 2) program or be programmed.
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“Before starting on a design, Mr. Cuervo sometimes will force himself to write...”
– Facebook’s Soleio Cuervo: The Man Who Got Us to ‘Like’ Everything | Creating - WSJ.com. I do this. You should do this, too. (via timoni)
“Do you come here often? I do. I’m the Foursquare mayor, actually, which means I...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: List: Ineffective Pick-Up Lines for the Modern Internet Persona. (via secondverse)
