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- By Scott Berkun on February 17th, 2010
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Wednesday linkfest
Here are this week’s good links:
- Ethos, Pathos, Logos: 3 Pillars of Public Speaking – I mention these core ideas in Confessions, but the six minutes blog does a nice job digging in deeper.
- This American Infographic – Do you like This American Life? And you love graphics? this is for you. And if you like cocktails, you’ll love this.
- How America Can Rise Again – The Atlantic (January/February 2010) – One of the best essays I’ve read in weeks. Asks all the tough questions about the future of the U.S. and doesn’t pull its punches.
- YouTube – Everythings amazing nobodys happy - Innovators out there can learn from this comedian. When your idea is successful, it means it will be forgotten.
- Interview With Steve Jobs from 1994 – In many ways this is more interesting than anything he has to say now, as a the time his company, NeXT, was falling apart.
- NYC Subway maps through history - Everyone gives all the attention to the London Underground Maps, but I’ve always loved the NYC maps too.
- Reportcard on U.S. Public Education – Nicely done. Surprised to see U.S. teacher salaries comparable to other nations.
- By Scott Berkun on January 20th, 2010
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Wednesday linkfest
Here are these week’s links:
- Designing for panic - The idea of help in software has always had the vague intention of being there in emergencies. But almost never has it provided the simple set of usefulness Uday suggests here (hat tip d&i daily)
- The science of expectations – Interesting little summary of how expectations impact the release of dopamine. On the positive side this means controling your expectations can make you happier. But it also means you are vulnerable to being addicted to intermediate variable rewards (Slot machines and video games).
- How to use an apostrophe – I get this wrong all the time, I know. But for me it’s not the rules, which I know, it’s the challenge of diligently reviewing my own work. Which believe it or not I’m much better at that I used to be.
- How to train the aging brain – This is surprisingly simple article in the NYT that basically says if you question your assumptions and consume diverse ideas that challenge you, your brain works better. But there isnt much evidence this is any more important at age 70 than it is at age 20.
- Stats for fiction rejections - An agent tallies up her reasons for rejecting manuscripts. I talk about the essential nature of rejection for creatives in What to do if the world hates your idea.
- Maybe next time you’ll buy the cookies – Oh come on. How can you not laugh at this?
- Small by choice – article in the NYT about small businesses that intend to stay small. Also see Small and special a recent event run by the folks at Jackson Fish, that solidifies this ideas a verifiable movement.
- By Scott Berkun on December 30th, 2009
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Wednesday linkfest
Here are this week’s links:
- Terrorism on airlines is overstated - In a simple argument of reality vs. perception, terrorism on airplanes, even if there was an event every month, are so small in the spectrum of fatalities as not to warrant the dramatic attention and worry people seem to have. If these numbers are right (which I can’t verify), one incident per 16,553,385 departures, even if there were 10x more terrorist incidents it’d still be a ridiculously small number.
- Tyler Durden’s rules for writing – The first rule of writing club, is do not talk about writing club.
- Cool building in Dresden – when it rains, musical instruments play. Reminds me of Hundertwasserhaus.
- Top 30 innovations of last 30 years – It’s an interesting list, but I think open source is high (11), and not sure RFID, Large scale wind turbines, or Social networking belong on there at all. I also believe you can’t make a list like this until some time has passed – we can’t yet separate the things that only have short term effects.
- Visual guide to Dim Sum – Now if only dim sum places would ever provide a guide like this. Although of course since often the ladies at the carts don’t speak much English, pointing always works.
- 96 square foot house - Square footage is a lousy measure of value. I’ve seen many 2500 sq foot houses that feel less useful and comfortable than 1000 sq foot, well designed homes (via gongblog)
- By Scott Berkun on December 23rd, 2009
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Wednesday linfest
Here are this week’s links:
- Reverse ignite – In a variation of powerpoint karaoke, where people are forced to present with someone else’s slides, Reverse ignite does it with ignite format presentations.
- Bike friendlyiest city in the world – Copenhagen – Well done little video about how they redesigned Copenhagen with bikes taking priority. Amazing to watch. I was there this year and it’s amazing to walk on streets with more bikes than cars.
- New Interview with David Simon, of the Wire – Won’t make much sense unless you saw the series, which, if you like yourself and your brain, you really really should go watch.
- Subway architecture – Man, someday I will finish writing that book about the London Underground. Meanwhile, here are some amazing photos of underground subway stations around the world.
- Diagram of old world buildings (hat tip Ario)
- Donald Barthleme’s syllabus – Famed author of the classic short novel The Dead father, made a reading list for a writing class that was dug up recently. Some I’ve read, some I’ve heard of, many I’ve never seen before.
- By Scott Berkun on December 16th, 2009
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Wednesday linkfest
Here are this week’s links:
- College student brings typewriter to lecture hall – Seems legit and not staged – the professor eventually asks him to stop.
- A better rating system – 5 point scales are the standard on yelp, amazon and elsewhere. Interesting to think if there’s a better way to do this. My biggest gripe is they rarely show the distribution – some things are love/hate in nature. I might see a film or read a book that was highly polarized, but had a 3 average.
- NYC subway filled with apples - Amazing little video for a good cause. Don’t miss the making of video below ( read the comments for a very funny, and impressive, complaint).
- 33 selected blogs about project management and innovation – I’m on the list somewhere, and you can vote for your favorites.
- IDEAS and STEMs – interesting little graphic/acronym combo for comparing/contrasting different kinds of thinking.
- Disney’s Org chart – Interesting piece of flow/hierarchy design, circa 1940s Disney.
- By Scott Berkun on December 10th, 2009
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Thursday linkfest
Here are this week’s excellent links and the only stuff I managed to read this week while on the road:
- On press reporting: MSFT and black screen of death - Anyone who has an article written about them, or their work, and discovers the gap between what they are and how they are portrayed, never reads the news the same way again. Here’s an interesting tale of reporting gone wrong.
- InnovationParkour - Great presentation (slides only) comparing innovation with the street sport of Parkour. Wish the actual presentation was somewhere.
- Top 10 Conferences – My favorite events are ones that hit cross discipline. That’s where the big leaps and connections come from. Here’s a solid list of ten conferences that will give you want more bang for your training/event dollar. (I’ve written about GEL before)
- How a web design goes to hell - Very funny for any creative who works with clients. (But does beg the question, perhaps you should pick better clients to have).
- McNeil/Leher rules for news - Didn’t get all the way through this, but made me wonder what other shows would say their rules are, and how wide the gap is between their ‘rules’ and their actual practices.
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