Ideas I want to write about
Literature is at once the most intimate and the most articulate of the arts. It cannot impart its effect through the sense or the nerves as the other arts can; it is beautiful only through the intelligence; it is the mind speaking to the mind ... if it fails to express precisely the meaning of the author, if it does not say HIM, [sic] it says nothi... See more
Miguel • Issue #341: How to Earn Money from Your Writing
Now the point of this myth is the fact that men at once become fascinated by any extension of themselves in any material other than themselves.
- Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media - The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis
In Search of New Software Cultures
What brands have realized is, you can create a “halo effect” around this that drives revenue for your brand. People line up to buy the limited edition stuff, and if they don’t get it, they still buy something less exclusive because they have already decided that your brand is cool and desirable and they want to advocate.
Reggie Casagrande • The evolution of Energy Marketing from Street Culture to Main Street
Marketing is about identifying and meeting human and social needs. One of the shortest good definitions of
marketing is “meeting needs profitably.”
Caring what other people think is human and often learning and getting feedback on how one can improve is key to success so not living in other people’s minds does not mean not listening to or caring what other people say or think.
It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.
If nobody was lookin... See more
It means stopping using their metrics and their rulers of success to rule the way we live our life.
If nobody was lookin... See more
Exercising Belief.
“We should not forget that maybe not everybody only wants a camel cashmere turtleneck,” Olivier Rousteing remarked. Beyond the cyclical nature of fashion, Rousteing’s observation captured a mash-up of trends that has been solidifying into a durable aesthetic.
The age of functional maximalism
Fashion
“Why isn’t it an app?” This argument feels like the make change from the inside. We know that’s not how the world works, but it’s hard to see that you’re in water as a fish.
But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.
But what’s hanging in the balance is the image-cultural environment of the future. One not dominated by a format monopoly.
In Search of New Software Cultures
from Reggie James