Posts Tagged ‘Seth Godin’

Hindsight Links for Jun 17, 6:00 am

// June 17th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • Academic e-book usage survey, M Cummins @ Australian Policy Online:
    Creator:  Chan Li Creator (other):  and others In 2008…
  • Maps to Real Life, Brendan Lewis @ One Sock:
    I know a guy that has moved his family to Italy, so his children would grow up with a bit of culture in them. The driver was his increasing belief that his kids were evolving into something he’d like to shoo off his lawn. And no, he’s not o…
  • The last minute (a case against brinksmanship), Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    Putting your demands on the table at the last minute is traditionally a successful negotiating strategy. It’s at the last minute that people are focused, that the stakes are higher and that you’re the most likely to extract concessions. There…
  • Numabookface, Roman Espejo @ Cool Hunting:
    No offense to bookmobiles, but Numabookface—part installation, part bookstore—ups the ante on mobile libraries. A collaboration between design collective Nam and specialty publisher Numabooks, the whimsical pop-up shop launched earlier this year as part of Nam’s “A Fantasy in Life” solo exhibition at Public/Image 3D in Toyko. Made of…
  • Lights Out, Ami Kealoha @ Cool Hunting:
    Hibernation might be a bear thing, but getting serious shut-eye is key to not just more pleasant and productive days but longterm health benefits too. While I’ve tried a few gadgets designed to help you sleep, nothing quite beats the simplicity of a good mattress and sleep mask. One…

Hindsight Links for Apr 15,6:00 am

// April 15th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • Lessons from my Daughter’s Laptop, Scott Anthony @ HBR.org:
    Over Christmas, my wife and I were shopping for a present for our three-year-old daughter, Holly. “She seems to really…
  • Failure Isn’t Enough, Team @ HBR.org:
    The notion that innovation and failure go hand-in-hand has become popular of late. It begins with the argument that many…
  • Roofer, Paolo Ferrarini @ Cool Hunting:
    Established in 1961, Italian lighting specialist Fabbian has developed a cult following for its technical expertise, constant innovation and in-house manufacturing. Their repertoire of remarkable collaborations (among them Karim Rashid and Marc Sadler) now includes one with young British designer Benjamin Hubert, who just showed their ironic “Roofing” lamp…
  • Cut & Paste Global Championship 2011, Graham Hiemstra @ Cool Hunting:
    The annual Cut & Paste digital design tournament, back for its sixth year, is bigger than ever with 30 reigning champs from ten cities around the world converging on NYC to face-off head-to-head. Under the judge’s watchful eyes (culled from the design community, members include influential figures including graphic…
  • Why you might choose to be in favor of transparency, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    Thousands of doctors have signed up for a service that, among other things, they can use to try to prohibit patients from posting reviews. You can read a bit about it here. In Iowa, in a surprisingly similar move, the…

Hindsight Links for Apr 8, 6:00 am

// April 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • M?ori designed, developed and delivered initiatives to reduce M?ori offending and re-offending, A Zammit @ APO.org:
    Early evaluations of M?ori designed, developed and delivered initiatives to reduce crime have shown promising results. Justice read more
  • Urban water in Australia: future directions, P Aitken @ APO.org:
    Calling Australian governments to consider new directions to reinvigorate the way we manage water in our cities and towns, this report aims to encourage discussion and provide a platform for change. Social Policy read more
  • Perfect vs. interesting, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    There are two jobs available to most of us: You can be the person or the organization that’s perfect. The one that always ships on time, without typos, that delivers flawlessly and dots every i. You can be the hosting…
  • 360 Reviews, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I’m a fan of 360 reviews for companies of all shapes and sizes. I was talking to the CEO of one of our portfolio companies yesterday about his company and he said “we have about 50 employees. is it time…
  • Godspeed, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    When close friends Casey Diebold and Adam Devarney both graduated from Pratt University their journeys as artists naturally took them to very different places. Devarney returned to the serenity of his native Burlington, VT, while Diebold stayed in Brooklyn to work as a commercial storyboard artist. Their diverging paths…

Hindsight Links for Feb 25, 6:00 am

// February 25th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • True size of Vatican City, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:True Size vatican

    We saw the true size of Africa, relative to the world’s largest countries, by Kai Krause last year. Taking it in the other direction, xefer shows the true size of Vatican City, world’s smallest state, with an area of approximately 110 acres. That’s just big enough to house a handful …

  • An atomic theory of business size, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    The magic of the periodic table is that every atom is one thing or another–there isn’t a stable element that’s sort of oxygen and sort of nitrogen. If there were, there would be millions of elements, not a few hundred….
  • Wow, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I came upstairs to my office at 5:15am this morning with a simple plan. I was going to read through the comments to yesterdays post and select one and write a blog post. 5am to 7am is my writing/thinking time….
  • Design Indaba: Pecha Kucha, Karen Day @ Cool Hunting:
    From the seven recent design graduates highlighted for their distinct talents at Cape Town’s Design Indaba conference on creativity, three particularly stand out for their innovative viewpoint and compelling demonstrations. While the others—Camille Blin, Dirk Van Der Kooij, Lindsay Kinkade and Christine Goudie—all presented well-founded concepts in their respective fields,…
  • Gibbon Slacklines, Evan Orensten @ Cool Hunting:
    From its origins in the 1970s—when it was used by climbers for practising their moves in parking lots and eventually to bypass terrain that was hard to climb across—Slacklines have more recently also become a great training tool to strengthen your core and improve your balance or just fun…

Hindsight Links for Jan 28, 6:00 am

// January 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • Failure, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    Given the amount of startup activity we’ve been witnessing the past couple years in the web space, we are in for a bunch of strikeouts this year. We should not avoid talking about failure. Words like roadkill and deadpool should…
  • Why I don’t sell Kimchi, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    Years ago, I put together a really cool plan to get into the artisinal kimchi business (with a tofu sideline, of course). What, you didn’t know there was an artisinal kimchi business? Here’s the first draft of our packaging (click…
  • So It Turns Out Technology Really Does Empower Us, Team @ HBR.org:
    It started with a car ride in Munich on Monday night. I was leaving a big party put on by…
  • Is Obama Gaining Power with Every Speech? (Are You?), Jeffrey Pfeffer @ HBR.org:
    Everyone thinks President Obama is a great orator. I think he has moments of greatness but often misses important opportunities…
  • Case Study: A Rush to Failure?, Team @ HBR.org:
    Editors’ Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from…

Hindsight Links for Nov 26, 6:00 am

// November 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • Are we there yet? Ten years on from the decade of reconciliation, paitken @ Australian Policy Online – Research:
    Creator:  Jacqueline Phillips Creator:  Kate Aubrey-Poiner Calling o…
  • Happy Turkey Day, Nathan Yau @ FlowingData:
    Happy Thanksgiving! Eat lots and lots and lots. Rest. Then eat more.
  • A modern thanksgiving, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    Wherever you are, you could celebrate Thanksgiving today. Not the Thanksgiving of a bountiful harvest before the long winter, the holiday of pilgrims and pie. That’s a holiday of scarcity averted. I’m imagining something else… A modern Thanksgiving would celebrate……
  • Why a Happy Brain Performs Better, Sylvia Ann Hewlett @ HBR.org:
    Featured Guest: Shawn Achor, CEO of Aspirant and author of The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That…
  • Thanks For Entrepreneurs, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    It’s Thanksgiving. And I woke up thinking about entrepreneurs. It was probably this awesome Steve Blank blog post that caused that. Steve says: I believe that we will look back at this decade as the beginning of an economic revolution…

Hindsight Links for Nov 19, 6:00 am

// November 19th, 2010 // No Comments » // Digests, Hindsight

  • Embracing the upcycle instead of the downcycle, Seth Godin @ Seth’s Blog:
    Does a stressful event start a cascade that ends up making even you more stressed? If an authority figure corrects your behavior, does the intervention lead you to push back and make the behavior worse? Does a failure set you…
  • Giving Every Person A Voice, Fred Wilson @ A VC:
    I had the pleasure of watching John Battelle interview Evan Williams to wrap the Web2 conference yesterday. John’s a great interviewer and it was a memorable talk. But the thing that stayed with me through the night and was on…
  • Pact Festive Holiday Collection, Team @ Cool Hunting:
    The new Festive Holiday Underwear Collection from Pact brings light not just to your skivvies but to those who need it most. Featuring three festive patterns designed by Yves Behar and his team at Fuseproject , with every purchase the brand donates a handheld, solar LED lantern to Haitian…
  • Money! Power! Fame! (And Other Ways to Fail), Team @ HBR.org:
    One of the silliest ideas I’ve heard in this very silly political season is the just-floated trial balloon of an…
  • Will Focus Make You Happier?, Team @ HBR.org:
    A November 15 article in the New York Times cited a recent study from Harvard happiness experts Daniel Gilbert and…
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