Mocassins Berluti - the Andy Warhol model
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And the highest paid public employee in your state is…
Just be you, Vermont.
my friend Travis had an awesome quip about that today.
Iconic 1987 Braun calculator designed by the legendary Dieter Rams to be re-released this year
Landmarks of industrial design should be timeless. It’s fitting, then, that Braun will re-release one of its most iconic products, the ET66 calculator from 1987.
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Google is trying to shrink Motorola into success -
Tero Kuittinen of BGR:
It is hard not to admire Sanjay Jha’s cool genius in handling Motorola’s sale to Google. He leveraged Motorola’s old sales contacts in Asia and Latin America to push nondescript models into sales channel, creating an illusion of international traction during 2010 and early 2011. He created a shadow play of a healthy AT&T relationship, feeding expectations of substantial sales growth for Motorola’s business in the United States. For a brief time, Motorola seemed like a company in healthy shape.
Then Google announced its intent to buy Motorola in the summer of 2011 and the glamor flaked off like glitter lipstick from a Chicago prostitute in dawn’s cold light.
Then Google announced its intent to buy Motorola in the summer of 2011 and the glamor flaked off like glitter lipstick from a Chicago prostitute in dawn’s cold light.
HAHAHAHA
Signs of unusual journalistic dedication: A reporter was having her wedding when the quake hit Sichuan. (Chris Blattman)
“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.” — Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via lurah)
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“all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed the human soul, but they would not understand the need to escape the oppressive lethargy of choicelessness” — Americanah - Chimanda Ngozi Adechie
12 Great Articles by Paul Graham -
tetw:
A Tetw reading list
Paul Graham, one of the guys behing Y Combinator, has published a great collection of essays on his website. These are a few of our favourites:
Is It Worth Being Wise? - A wise person knows what to do in most situations, while a smart person knows what to do in situations where few others could.
Keep Your Identity Small - A Politics, like religion, is a topic with no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.
Good and Bad Procrastination - The most impressive people I know are all procrastinators.
The Submarine - The PR industry lurks like a huge quiet submarine beneath the news.
The Age of the Essay - What an essay really is, and how you write one. Or at least, how I write one.
Taste for Makers - “A lot of them seem smart,” he said. “What I can’t tell is whether they have any kind of taste.”
What You Can’t Say - There is almost certainly something wrong with you if you don’t think things you don’t dare say out loud.
How to Disagree - If we’re all going to be disagreeing more, we should be careful to do it well.
The Acceleration of Addictiveness - As far as I know there’s no word for something we like too much.
Post-Medium Publishing - Consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers weren’t really selling it either.
Writing, Briefly - As for how to write well, here’s the short version:
Writing and Speaking - Having good ideas is an alarmingly small component of being a good speaker.
“We own your 5 to 10 closest friends,” argues Livingston. “Around that we can build apps, games, photosharing—[social networks] let you do all these things with the next 490 most important people in your life.” —
Ted Livingston, Founder - Kik.
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