February 2012
3 posts
“The trouble usually arises when, under the guise of efficiency, people stop...”
– BRYCE DOT VC: Early Warning Signs of Startup Trouble
In my experience, this is a very real problem. Culture and communication are difficult to retrofit into an organization once it’s grown to a certain size but most growing companies don’t take it seriously enough until it’s too late. (via buzz)
“We played the spot once, and when it finished, Jobs said, “It sucks! I hate it!...”
– Behind the Scenes of Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign (via implodr)
The biggest thing that bothers me about the “Cult of Jobs” is that people often seem to mistake the unfortunate, frequently counterproductive, side effects of the personality that made him great for the very cause of his...
January 2012
4 posts
1 tag
“The vast amount of choice that we have is meant to be helpful and part of our...”
– David Bazan on The Great Discontent
This is probably my favourite quote in a very long while.
“The King’s Speech was a superb film, but it’s essentially Rocky for stammerers....”
– Charlie Brooker on why David Cameron’s plans for the British cinema industry are misguided (via guardiancomment)
December 2011
13 posts
“Whenever you go out of doors, draw the chin in, carry the crown of the head...”
– Elbert Hubbard, quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (via lukeleighfield)
‘To think rightly is to create.’
“While they voiced some concern about the proximity of July’s Armageddon, in...”
– Highlighted by Aaron Kelly in The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
“The real secret is the salt.” As a veteran of the movie exhibition business, he...”
– Highlighted by Aaron Kelly in The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
“In my version of the English language, when one member of a club uses his veto,...”
– Britain and the EU: Britain, not leaving but falling out of the EU | The Economist (via jonheslop)
Blog – Readmill: Open house! →
readmill:
This is a special day for us. We’ve been hard at work during the fall, trying to get all the pieces together. Today we’re extremely excited to announce that Readmill is now open for everyone.
This means that anyone using an iPad, Kindle or Android phone can sign up and start sharing highlights, reading data and other cool things around books. But just opening up isn’t enough, we’re...
Blog – Readmill: Ryan Essmaker on Readmill →
readmill:
Ryan Essmaker on Readmill
With so many interesting and talented people on Readmill, we thought it was about time we featured a few of them here on the blog. We asked Ryan Essmaker what he’s been reading, and what’s been keeping him busy.
Ryan, what have you been reading recently?
I recently finished The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it quickly became one of my all-time...
2 tags
November 2011
19 posts
“I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house
which I had...”
– Highlighted by Aaron Kelly in Walden
“I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing...”
– Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism (via seriouslyamerica)
boyattractions:
Robag Wruhme — Tulpa Ovi
This...
2 tags
“I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at...”
– Highlighted by Jorge Zapico in Walden
Volcano Choir - Sleepymouth
I was doing some food...
“Perhaps I can take a little solace in knowing that even Linnaeus, the father of...”
– Highlighted by erin kissane in Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages
“Britain came close to being outvoted on March 16th, though it had signalled that...”
– The Economist
Reason #1,584,306 why I am more French than British.
“Pitchfork: Your friendship with Jay-Z is kind of fascinating to me. I’m curious,...”
– Interviews: Chris Martin | Features | Pitchfork
“CM: The way we differ from Radiohead— who are unquestionably brilliant— is that,...”
– Interviews: Chris Martin | Features | Pitchfork
October 2011
22 posts
“It was me and my sidekick
He was drunk and I was sick
We were caught up in a...”
– Crawling Back To You by Tom Petty
Maybe some of my favourite lyrics.
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.”
– G. K. Chesterton (via zachklein)
“So let’s get this straight…
Spain owes Germany $200 billion, so borrows $100...”
– Confused.Eu
Introducing Readmill →
longform:
Readmill is a social platforn for e-book reading that we’ve been keeping tabs on. Basically, you add ePub books in iTunes (or, even more easily through Dropbox) and you can read them back on their impressive iOS app.
At this juncture, you can’t buy books from Amazon or the iBooks store and have them jump straight into Readmill, so the primary book sources are free/public domain or...
“None of this has been, during the 60-year post-colonial period since 1947, the...”
– Let’s end the myths of Britain’s imperial past | Books | The Guardian
“The clincher, Peterson says, came from the wife: “She turns to me and she goes,...”
– The Rise of the New Global Elite - Atlantic Mobile
“According to the economists Emmanuel Saez of Berkeley and Thomas Piketty of the...”
– The Rise of the New Global Elite - Atlantic Mobile
