"financial results of the likes Apple delivered yesterday serve as an affirmation of all that energy spent telling their story. Believing in the underdog. Like your favorite home team who couldn’t get into premier league while growing up just won the Superbowl, the Stanley Cup, and the World Series all together for the 10th time in a row — and you were the only one to believe in them. It’s an immensely satisfying feeling."
Watching Apple win the world - (37signals)
I was absolutely giggling yesterday afternoon when I saw Apple’s results. Every success they have is a strike against lowest common denominator thinking, following conventional wisdom, and expediency over excellence. And it was an alarm bell for any conversation I’m in that includes the phrase “good enough.”
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The Joy of Quiet - NYTimes.com
… joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as “that kind of happiness that doesn’t depend on what happens.”
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Sometimes you need a 6-year window.
Nice.
Digg retains an outsize news reference volume compared to the steep decline in search volume, though.
Graphic Design: Now in Production
“This major international exhibition explores how graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed tool. ”
Video of speakers on the show here.
Tour Schedule
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
October 22, 2011–January 22, 2012
• Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Governors Island, New York
May 16–September 2, 2012
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
September 30, 2012–January 6, 2013
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas
July 19–September 29, 2013
• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina
October 24, 2013–February 24, 2014
The difference between selling hardware based on software, and hardware based on hardware.
All images taken from Spacesuits: The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection, by Amanda Young, photographs by Mark Avino
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You Can Do It on a Couch, You Can Do It on a Table
Image: Content shifting trends with tablets as reported by Google. Via ReadWriteWeb.
