Mohamed Diabi

my little space to write, review, rant and think out loud.

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Common Projects Achilles Low

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Mott & Bow Premium Denim

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Leila Alaoui: The Moroccans

The Moroccans is a photographic series of contemporary live size portraits, shot in a mobile photo studio across Morocco. Its images are an attempt to bear witness to the rich cultural and ethnic diversity of Morocco, an archival work on the aesthetics of disappearing traditions through contemporary digital photography.

In Muslim countries it is generally frowned upon to depict the human figure as per an approach called aniconism. Aside from the striking visual beauty, this belief makes French-Moroccan artist Leila Alaoui’s series of portraits The Moroccans all the more interesting and thought-provoking.

[seinfeld]

“NO SOUP FOR YOU!”

‪#‎TheSoupNazi‬ is streaming free on Crackle!

http://crackle.watch/Seinfeld

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Roc-A-Pads infromercial - Chappelle’s Show, S01xE5

[humansofnewyork]

“I don’t remember deciding that I didn’t want kids. I just always knew. I expected to have a solitary and philosophical life. It had nothing to do with the noise or the responsibility or the diapers, I just didn’t feel qualified. I couldn’t figure out my own life. How was I supposed to be responsible for someone else’s happiness and sense of self-worth? I pictured fatherhood as a quiet living room where everyone was unhappy and nobody knew why. But I was wrong. They made me so much happier, and it was so much easier than I thought. I didn’t realize how much of being a father is just about doing things together and being where they are.”

[deadpresidents]

Wagna Moura is going to get an Emmy for playing Pablo Escobar in “Narcos”, right? Even Benicio del Toro wasn’t able to pull off playing Pablo, and this dude nailed it!

[blindedbytruth]

[rickwebb]

This is the essence of the focusing illusion, which can be described in a single sentence: Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

 Kahneman, Daniel (2011-10-25). Thinking, Fast and Slow (p. 402). Macmillan. Kindle Edition. (via rickwebb)

[prepaidafrica]

Entrepreneur Spotlight

Christelle Vougo,  Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire 

The war lasted until April 2011. I came back with the girls as soon it was safe because Franck and I had already bought the property for the first restaurant. We didn’t have a choice at that point; we told ourselves that’s what we were going to do. We opened in July, three months after the war ended and the president was sworn in. The first six months were really slow. We were out on the street with flyers telling people to come to our restaurant. People looked at us like we were crazy.

Our first restaurant serves American food:fried chicken salad, burgers, fajitas. It really helped us take off when people from the US embassy started coming. This gave us credibility. People started saying, “If the Americans are coming so often themselves . . . ” Word spread. We changed the perceptions of American food in Abidjan. People used to think it was just hamburgers and meals for kids. From there we were able to open a restaurant focused on Ivorian food, the kind people make at home, but dressed up a little bit and made with a twist from my own experimenting. I invented a dessert, crème de baobab, after my girls came home from school with their lips all white from eating baobab powder. It reminded me that I used to love it, too. And I have a secret recipe for cassava frites; my trick keeps them soft inside, crispy outside.

There are not many women running restaurants in this town. It took me a while to establish myself but now they respect me. My husband and I are opening our third restaurant here in August — it’s going to be Thai, one of my favourite cuisines. Later this year we’re also opening a traiteur to cater for all the business and social events in the city. If we had known how well this was going to work, we would have come home sooner.

[stoweboyd]

God, geek, hack or fraud?

A 2 x 2 analytical framework for identifying who you’re dealing with. Doodled while trying to explain the difference.

[theverge]

Jennifer Jason Leigh looks insane, Tim Roth looks tanner/happier than usual, Kurt Russell’s facial hair is out of control, and Samuel L. Jackson is Samuel L. Jackson. Is it Christmas yet? 

[businessinsider]

There’s a big difference between the wealthiest men and the wealthiest women in tech

[motherjones]

Yikes. Now go read some good news about women in tech. 

[mdiabi-blog]

Interesting chart! First things first though, 100% of the men are founders, 0% of the women are. If the chart were the top 5 wealthiest non founding men and women executives in tech, it'd still be as skewed but also right.

[parislemon]

Jony Ive: 5,000. Thomas Edison: 2,332.

In an exclusive interview - in which Ive's promotion is revealed for the first time - Stephen Fry meets Jony Ive, and his boss, Apple chief executive Tim Cook, to talk spaceships, design and Steve Jobs.

Stephen Fry:

With control over both, Ive has been able to migrate the mobile and desktop operating systems from their old-fashioned skeuomorphic rendering of app icons as real world representations (ring binders and even torn page effects on the contacts and calendars apps, for instance) into a brighter, clearer set of exquisitely designed images that speak for themselves. Ive’s inventiveness can perhaps most starkly be expressed by revealing that he has nearly 5,000 patents to his name. To give you some point of comparison, Edison was granted 2,332.

One such patent: the brilliant new UK power plug. 

As for the matter of this being a promotion or a “promotion” for Ive, my view is that this sums it up pretty well.

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(via W.H. Auden’s 1941 Literature Syllabus Asks Students to Read 32 Great Works, Covering 6000 Pages | Open Culture)

Work harder. 

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