(Source: The Atlantic)
i dream of electric sheep. I like irony and peanut butter.
(Source: The Atlantic)
Perhaps ‘defective’ is a middle-aged person’s default setting. Like the life cycle of a pear we go unripe, unripe, ripe, off. Except the men I meet seem to go adolescent, adolescent, adolescent, old, with no ripe bit, no wise bit, no emotional maturity before they wither.
(via The Last Chess Shop in New York City - YouTube)
(Source: youtube.com)
These scooters are absolutely meeting a user need, but at the expense of a societal need.
Adding value, by adding values – Public Digital
(Source: public.digital)
After years of sharing their working lives, duos sometimes develop a private language, the way twins do. They imitate each other’s clothing and habits. A sense of humor osmoses from one to the other. Apportioning credit between them becomes impossible.
Most of the fragile insights that laid the foundation of a new vision emerged not when the whole group was together, and not when members worked alone, but when they collaborated and responded to one another in pairs,
If the traditional startup narrative once followed the outlines of “identify a need, scale the solution,” the modern version looks something more like “identify a need, scale the solution, and deal with the unintended consequences and regulatory backlash.” It’s no coincidence that Juul, like Uber, has become a verb.
(Source: vulture.com, via notational)
But GCF isn’t just a stripped-down clone of The Wirecutter or Consumer Reports–its design springs from an entirely different philosophy on shopping.
The feeling was so common that entomologists developed a shorthand for it, named for the way many people first began to notice that they weren’t seeing as many bugs. They called it the windshield phenomenon.