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A new year always holds the promise of new opportunities. It's hard to know what those opportunities will look like, yet with great hope and excitement we embrace the uncertainty of each year. 2014...

#opportunity #2015

Technology is what we share. I don’t mean “we share the experience of technology.” I mean: By my lights, people very often share technologies with each other when they talk. Strategies. Ideas for living our lives. We do it all the time. Parenting email lists share strategies about breastfeeding and bedtime. Quotes from the Dalai Lama. We talk neckties, etiquette, and Minecraft, and tell stories that give us guidance as to how to live. A tremendous part of daily life regards the exchange of technologies. We are good at it. It’s so simple as to be invisible. Can I borrow your scissors? Do you want tickets? I know guacamole is extra. The world of technology isn’t separate from regular life. It’s made to seem that way because of, well…capitalism. Tribal dynamics. Territoriality. Because there is a need to sell technology, to package it, to recoup the terrible investment. So it becomes this thing that is separate from culture. A product.

-Paul Ford in The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-computing

#paul ford #technology

The best — maybe the only? — real, direct measure of “innovation” is change in human behaviour. In fact, it is useful to take this way of thinking as definitional: innovation is the sum of change across the whole system, not a thing which causes a change in how people behave. No small innovation ever caused a large shift in how people spend their time and no large one has ever failed to do so.

#stewart butterfield #marketing #slack

Wilson Miner - When We Build

#wilson miner #design

At times of change, the learners are the ones who inherit the world, while the knowers will be beautifully prepared for a world which no longer exists.

Alistair Smith

#alistair smith #change #learning

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before.

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf in Happiness, Your Heritage

#creation #Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Tom Kelley, IDEO partner, talks about relaxed attention (i.e. daydreaming) and how to capture more of the value that comes from those moments.

He also reveals why the shower is an ideal location/moment for ideas to be born:

Lots of people say they have their best ideas in the shower and I think I know why: there’s no email in the shower!

#tom kelley #ideo #ideas

The entire prospectus is worth reading, but this part I loved:

DISNEYLAND will be the essence of America as we know it… the nostalgia of the past, with exciting glimpses into the future.

It will give meaning to the pleasure of children —- and pleasure to the experience of adults…

… And, mostly, as stated at the beginning - it will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.

#double_size #disney #disneyland #happiness

via brycedotvc

Ira Glass:

Nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish somebody had told this to me — is that all of us who do creative work … we get into it because we have good taste. But it’s like there’s a gap, that for the first couple years that you’re making stuff, what you’re making isn’t so good , OK?

... And the most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work — do a huge volume of work. ... Because it’s only by actually going through a volume of work that you are actually going to catch up and close that gap. And the work you’re making will be as good as your ambitions.

Pavos Parson logo (circa 1975)

Illustrator isn't as overwhelming once you understand a few of its tools.

A brief chat about the importance of understanding/recognizing disruption, lessons learned from Netscape/Opsware and what makes great entrepreneurs (according to Marc and Ben).

I still wish that some of the idea people had learned how to program, or were willing to learn, so that they could implement their ideas. Then they, too, could know the superhuman strength of watching ideas become tangible.

Eugene Wallingford in "I just need a programmer"

From Moleskin to Marketplace: The Airbnb story

#double_size

Kyle Tibbitts:

Your rate-of-learning is a better proxy for how successful you will be than your current salary or stock compensation because it’s a leading rather than lagging indicator.

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