Going to have to change my way of grabbing a beer off the bar.
Ghost in the Shell version:
Akira Kurosawa version:
Archive for Blog – Page 2
Just go there. Just read it. Just laugh. That is all. Link.
Two of my favorites: Missing Missy and Please design a logo for me. With pie charts. For free.
(Thanks Isaac for reminding me!)
From “Everything I Know About Business in One Minute.
(Link)
- Focusing on making a partnership work is more profitable than focusing on making money.
- Love your employees more than you love your clients.
- The best new business is your current business.
- Price projects by asking yourself what the client’s lawyer would charge.
- It’s better to be hired for your work than for your price.
- When it comes to getting paid, the first of the month is better than the thirtieth.
- Making money off mechanicals, printing and computers turns your business into a commodity.
- The books in your library are more important than the numbers on your balance sheet.
- In order to love your work, take vacations.
- Power, in business, comes from sharing money and valuing love.
More predictions for the new year. Link A few notable quotes:
The age of indiscriminate sharing on social networks is rapidly changing.
Faraday Zones… will become a ubiquity in 2014.
…there will be a counter-movement of user-controlled data ownership… ‘‘If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer—you’re the product being sold.”
So predictable.
Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2014 (Link)
Awesome, well-written synopsis of the year by two science fiction authors. Damn fun to read. To wit:
Old-school Digital Bolsheviks scattered hapless in every direction, as Big Data Killer Bot Commissars scoured the darkening landscape, and Trotsky went to ground in Ecuador.
An extraordinary atmosphere of sullen, baffled evil, as the year opens. I don’t know what to compare 2014 to – except for many other glum post-revolutionary situations, when the zealots succeeded in toppling the status quo, then failed to install a just and decent form of civil order. The world in 2014 is like a globalized Twitter Egypt.
Yep, that pretty well describes it.
Suppose the entire US Congress came to your house in a body, to you, as a citizen, and they told you, well, anything at all — in their collective wisdom — something minor maybe, say they recommended a roach insecticide, for instance. Would you take that act at face value? Would you listen to the Congress with the respect due legally elected officials, and do what they said?
“Hey,” you might say, “the US Congress is the legitimate, elective legislative body of a superpower; so they can’t be that bad! I’d better buy that aerosol can and spritz it around some!” Would you do that? Really? Wouldn’t you pull an NSA, and pretend to do it, and then lie to them, lying as minimally as you could?
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. And Yep.
Another New Year’s Resolution – The Builder’s High (Link)
Why am I spending so much time consuming other people’s moments?
Please, please stop posting pictures of your damn ugly dog.
You’re fucking swimming in everyone else’s moments, likes, and tweets and during these moments of consumption you are coming to believe that their brief interestingness to others makes it somehow relevant to you and worth your time.
I don’t really want to know what you just ate for lunch.
I don’t care what kind of beer you just drank.
I don’t want to hear your latest partisan political rant.
I don’t want to know the latest Celine Dijon (sic) music track you just listened to.
I don’t want to join you in your “narcotically addictive” use of Farmville.
Please, please stop.
Is there a Facebook update that compares to building a thing?
No. (A prime example of Betteridge’s law of headlines!)
Turn off those notifications, turn your phone over, turn on your favorite music, stare at your blank slate and consider what you might build.
Precisely.
Then share that.
Well, maybe more of an “anti-resolution.” (NSFW) Link
I’m not sure why, but this really cheered me up. And I definitely lol’d.
1. Becoming a Morning Person
I’ve always hated mornings. I hate getting out of bed, hate getting out of the shower, hate finishing my coffee. I pretty much just hate everything and everyone who crosses my path prior to 10 am. I’ve tried to ‘fix’ this issue multiple times, trying to schedule in an hour of exercise or writing prior to embarking on my day. Fuck that. The only thing worse that getting out of bed in the morning is getting out of bed to torture yourself on a treadmill or stare at a screen. So keep all your “10 Things Successful People Do Before 5 am” motivational posts to yourself come 2014. I’ll be successfully asleep.
Yeah, I wake up hard. I always relate it to that scene in Alien where the crew slowly crawls out of hyper sleep. That’s me, every day. But did you know that people who swear are actually more trustworthy and honest? They are.
6. Swearing
My ex used to hate it when I would swear. And I get that — believe it or not, I’m not a huge fan of constant vulgarities either. That being said, some situations simply call for foul language. Come on, no one is going to stick to a Screw It list or an Eff It list. What’s more, studies have shown that people who swear are actually more trustworthy and honest. Which, by my count, means I’m kind of exceptional. Fuck it? Don’t mind if I do…
Thank you. You made me feel rather exceptional today.