Mouli's thoughts and musics over two decades
Great talk by Sean Wes.
Slideset on Slideshare for those who want to flip through this quickly. Great set of informative, simple, yet very powerful slides. The slides are all black-and-white. They all have the same font. They all have 2-3 bullets or numbers per page. But the message is delivered.
He also gave this talk at Creative South. You can view the video here.
I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s.
An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously agrees that we can’t possibly go to McDonald’s, and better lunch suggestions emerge. Magic!
Read the full article here.
My key two takeaways are:
(via daringfireball)
This is just awesome. The store looks exactly like an iStore. The sales folks look and act like the iStore sales folk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Y3rNQ2pTyAY
My favourite where two people clink their glasses, and the sales guy says – “One click, and you are connected!”
(via GAS)
I have been following Jeff Weiner on his LinkedIn influencer feed for a while. He is a pretty darned good writer, and his posts are very insightful. In fact, some of them are so down to earth and pragmatic, that you wonder, if this guy is really a CEO.
In his post on the best advice he ever got, he goes over some pretty deep stuff. Three things that stood out to me are:
You can do anything you set your mind to — My dad
My wife keeps telling me this, and I kept refuting it until recently. To put this to practice, I applied it to an extremely simple thing such as ‘waking up early’. You ‘really’ can do anything you set your mind to.
Everything that can be converted from an atom to a bit, will be — Nicholas Negroponte
This is deep. Very deep. Especially in the current world and time. How many times a day, do you hear – “there is an app for that.”. Be it tracking the mileage my car gives per liter of petrol, to remembering to buy a few groceries on the way back home, to figuring out the best seat in a plane, to anything that you can think about. Just anything that can be digitized, … will be.
If you could only do one thing, what would it be? — Steve Jobs
This is the one thing that I have always admired in Apple. Do one thing, and do it so darned well, that you are the best. Nothing short. The story that Jeff shares in the post is that of, how Apple had started on the iPad first. At some point in time, when they realized the iPhone makes sense to be done first, they actually shelved the iPad project. They moved to the iPhone. Delivered it. And then moved back to iPad.
The story that comes to my mind is the famous quadrant that Jobs drew when he first came back to Apple. The four quadrants were laptop for consumers, laptop for business users, desktop for consumers, desktop for business users. Thats it. They focussed on one product in each quadrant. They trashed every other variant that was introduced during Sculley’s time.
Wisdom without compassion is ruthlessness, compassion without wisdom is folly — Fred Kofman
This is so deep that it took me a few seconds to digest this. But once you understand it, it is so true.
Read the original post from Jeff here.
http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf
No words to describe this one. Just watch.
Haha. ClientsfromHell has this amazing piece, which is too good not to share.
The Forbidden Fruit
Client: Hey, just one final question before I send the deposit. Do you use a PC or a MAC?
Me: I use a MAC.
Client: That is a problem. Do you have access to a PC? I am not a supporter of Apple products.
Me: No, I don’t have access to a PC, but this will have little to no effect on the work itself.
Client: I am a Christian and Apple products are sinful, I do not want our website to be created by a product made by this corrupt group. You need only look at their logo, an apple with a bite taken from it. Do you not know the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden? If I allowed you to create my website on a MAC I would be just like Adam, taking a bite of the forbidden fruit.
[Silence]
“Take my advise, destroy your mac and repent for when judgement day comes. It shall be you who is cast to hell for your sins.”
Me: [Block Contact]
Original piece is here.
Wow, after Senator Ted called the Internet a series of tubes, this is the next interesting description. This time it comes from a judge in Milan, Italy. In her description of her judgement against Google, for an objectionable Video case which made its way into Google Video.
“With images of the Wild West evidently in mind, Judge Oscar Magi wrote in a 111-page explanation of his decision to convict the Google executives: “There is no such thing as the limitless prairie of Internet where everything is permitted and nothing can be prohibited, on pain of a global excommunication by the people of the Web.”
Wow. Read the article on MacWorld here.
Image courtesy: Library of Congress (Creative Commons) on Flickr.
Wow. Just when we thought, people are atlast, going back to analog productivity systems,
like to-do-lists on paper, and 3M postits for reminders, researchers at MIT come up with this brilliant system.
To summarize:
Read the full post here at Discovery news.
Or, visit the MIT project page here.
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“Barriers break … when people talk“.
Just beautiful. Kudos to Rediffusion DY&R, the ad agency, which conceptualized and shot this ad. Apparently the ad was shot in Morocco. The children in the ad, had never been before a camera, to bring about the authenticity.
Gina Trapani at lifehacker.com has a wonderful how-to on how to tweak your XP setup for better performance (both the computer and yours). She did this after she had to reinstall windows after reformatting her hard drive. She shares her ‘gyan’ (knowledge in hindi) on how to best tweak XP. Great stuff. I am going to do this. Will update on this blog how it went.