Mikaela Waxin

Digital PR Pro, currently working with finding and selecting briefs for Hyper Island students. Connecting companies with tomorrows most wanted!

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

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Healing injuries with ultrasound pulses and super designed 3D printed casts is hopefully in the near future thanks to designer Jake Evill and Deniz Karasahin. So far I have been lucky not to have had fracture but if this is in place I will not mind, too much anyways. 

Turn to IFL Science to read more about 3D Printed Cast Speeds Bone Recovery Using Ultrasound.

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I've preordered Tiles a few months ago and hope they will start shipping soon. When I placed the order the shipping information said Winter 2013 but now it seems to have been pushed to Spring 2014.

There are a few similar trackers out there, e.g. Swedish based uFinder (not mentioned in TNW article). I ordered my Tiles before uFinder launched and asked uFinder what differs them from Tile. I got no reply so I think I'll wait for my Tiles to arrive before testing anything else. I especially like the community aspect of Tiles that I haven't seen from anyone else.

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Frilansare kan vinna Spinnguld

"Pr-tävlingen Spinn glömde bort kategorin sociala medier. Här är de nominerade. Bland de nominerade finns byråer som Prime och M&C Saatchi. Men även Mikaela Waxin, frilansande pr-konsult, är nominerad för sitt arbete med SVT-serien Portkod 1321."

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Spinn-nominerad i kategorin årets sociala medier med Portkod 1321 för SVT. 

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Dr Ieropoulos said: “The beauty of this fuel source is that we are not relying on the erratic nature of the wind or the sun, we are actually re-using waste to create energy.”

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McDonald’s Theory

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!

It’s as if we’ve broken the ice with the worst possible idea, and now that the discussion has started, people suddenly get very creative. I call it the McDonald’s Theory: people are inspired to come up with good ideas to ward off bad ones.

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Following are emails between a high school student in Jeju, Korea and Steve Wozniak. I could only find the korean version of the student’s email, which I’ve translated into English. 

  Mr. Wozniak! I’m a high school student in Korea. I am in second year of Se-Hwa high school in Jeju. My name is Yeon-su Yang.

I worked as a volunteer for Jeju forum in Mar. 31. I saw you from far away back then. I am a reporter for my school’s English newspaper, and also a Jeju student diplomat for Chinese department. My English isn’t very fluent since my major is Chinese. Please understand if some of my writing isn’t clear. I’ve helped preparing and guiding guests for your special session at Jeju forum.

However, I couldn’t receive your autograph. After your special session was over, I gave you my card through your attendant. Did you receive it? Although I couldn’t receive your autograph, I could listen to your talk.

At the talk, you gave some advice for teens. I was impressed by those advices. Since Mar. 31. 2012, you’ve became my role model. I’d like to share your excellent stories with the friends at my school.

My school is located in a rural area in Jeju, Korea. So we don’t get a lot of opportunities to communicate with successful people. If you could send some hopeful messages for the students in my school, I would share it with my friends by publishing it in the school’s English newspaper. I hope you’d accept my request.

I wish for your happiness. Have a good day!

    Sent: 2012-07-01 Sun 08:43:10

Subject: Re: Hello. Steven Wozniak! I‘m one of the korean high school students:-

First, I would be happy to send you a signed card of mine. Just send me a request for it and include your mailing address.

As for the students on Jeju island…

I look back to my own days as a student. It was a fun time where everything was provided for my entertainment in life. Our socialization was with friends at school, not via mobile tech devices as it is today. The best I can remember is that, like myself, most students found by accidental encounters what they enjoyed and wanted to do in life.

Near the end of high school and early college years I did a lot of internal thinking. This is the age that I hear a lot of students talking about right and wrong and what values are good and exploring religions if they haven’t had one pressed upon them by their parents.

First, I came to the conclusion that I would rather be an average person joking all the time than a powerful businessman stressing over work every day. I also decided for myself that I‘d want to be ’in the middle‘ in almost every way. I looked hard and the extreme ends of politics and values and wealth were not desirable and led to corrupt behaviors for many. Early on I decided that I would never want to tell one story in different ways. The truth always comes out one way. I decided that telling 2 versions of the same thing is often hypocritical. The teller doesn’t feel that the truth about how they are and how they act is not good, so they hide it with deception and falsehoods. It‘s like having 2 different personalities in your head and can lead to psychological problems and neurosis. I did not want to be like that.

I also decided that I did not have to convince others of my views for those views to be good. They only needed to be good to me. I didn’t have to argue and win points. Arguments rarely have ‘winners’ anyway. I could tell what I believed (even how to make a computer) and if others didn‘t agree, they were not bad. They just thought differently. I would have the belief that my thoughts were good and were inside my head and that’s all that mattered.

Also, my dad had told me that how far you go in a company usually is determined by how well liked you are. So I‘m always very nice to everyone. There’s no need to make enemies. You are recognized by your own skills and good work, and you don‘t have to criticize others for not doing good work. Just worry about your own skills.

One accident that happened to me was that I taught myself, with no books, how to design computers in high school. I loved doing it and designed computers all the time, from descriptions of them in manuals by the companies that made them. I designed the same computers over and over and made a game out of trying to use fewer and fewer parts, coming up with tricks to accomplish my task that could never be in a book. They were ’tricks‘ in my own head. I felt that some of these tricks would be used by probably no other computer designer in the world. In my game world, on paper, where I could never afford to build my designs, I felt I was one of the best in the world.

The best things I did in my young years leading up to the early Apple computers were done because I had little money and had to think deeply to achieve the impossible. Also, I had never done those technologies or studied them. I had to write the book myself. Being self-taught, figuring out how to design computers with pencil and paper, made me skilled at finding solutions that I had not been taught.

Every aspect of our lives and our companies will be changing and improving based on mobile technology. Young people are already ahead in this game and have good ideas of how any operation can be improved. Always focus on good human interface, user interface. Computer apps are not to be judged by what they do or how well they do it. Rather, it is more important that they feel natural to normal humans and they are led to the right actions. An ultimate example is when you speak what you want. If you don’t have to worry about having the right computer words, but just speak it as you would to a human, then the computer has totally gotten out of your way. Finding ways to do this will be very important in the future. The smartest approaches come from understanding normal people.

And every action you take on a smartphone has the ‘other end’ - the servers and storage in data centers. They are doing more calculation and organization and presentation of information than your handheld device, which is mainly displaying the results these days. The cloud represents the information content of the world, which could never be put on the storage [disk] in your mobile device, or even your personal computer. It‘s easy to see a world of job opportunities writing apps but don’t forget the importance of implementing the data center side of those apps. There‘s a lot of work to be done at that level too. Apps are like furniture. There are infinite variations until we have a few standards that change little. So this is a huge opportunity in the future.

If you are not technical, you have many opportunities in your future just knowing how people do things. Do listen to elders. They are mentors who have been in this world working with other humans doing the important things that make life work a lot longer than you students. The world needs all kinds of human effort to work and to progress. It doesn’t need for everyone to be a computer programmer, for example. We need mathematicians, scientists, archaeologists, writers, and every capacity of job for things to work.

Look at companies that you might someday work for. The hot products suggest some of these companies. But pay attention to how good the companies are to employees. Do they respect the employees? Do they allow them a large amount of decision making at the bottom of the org chart? Are responsibilities moved down rather than coming as orders from above. Is there room for growth and advancement in a particular company? Does the company consider employees as family? Will they take care of you if at some point your job is not working out? Will they find a better role for you? It‘s a bad thought that companies easily fire employees and leave them with no income to support a family and home.

best,

ʞɐıuzoʍ ǝʌǝʇs

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Love the Karen Walker Forever campaign with four women you usually don't see as fashion models. Content is queen!

"Introducing the Karen Walker Forever collection, a celebration of eternal optimism, complete with campaign shot by the inimitable Mr Ari Seth Cohen of Advanced Style [www.advancedstyle.blogspot.com]  With four models – Joyce Carpati, Linda Rodin, Lynn Dell and Ilona Royce Smithkin – aged between 65 and 92, Ari has set about capturing each lady in their own New York homes wearing Karen Walker Eyewear providing undeniable proof that personal style advances with age. These ladies are interesting, inspirational and beautiful and share a remarkable outlook on life."

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OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TO: Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016

"The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We're working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.

The Administration does not support blowing up planets.

Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force."

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Greg Petchkovsky makes creative 3D prints. This is a contribution to the contest "Make it real".

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A few quick thoughts:

1) That’s a shit ton of phones in three days.

2) We’re already seeing a meme about the record sales being “disappointing” because, as usual, some analysts shit the bed in making their Apple predictions.

3) The subsequent stories about the “disappointing” iPhone 5 sales are even more laughable. Repeat after me: “Demand of iPhone 5 exceeded the initial supply…”

4) Anecdotally, some local stores remained in stock of the iPhone 5 this weekend, but elsewhere this wasn’t true. This was the story at many outside retailers, which were especially constrained by Apple (presumably to ensure that Apple could meet demand in their own stores). Also, pre-orders that haven’t arrived yet do not count in these sales. Again, anecdotally, that’s the situation with about half the people that I know.

5) Reports around slowing growth of first weekend sales are perhaps the most ridiculous. Newsflash: iPhone sales, even if they weren’t constrained, cannot go to infinity. Apple sold an absolutely insane 37 million iPhones in Q1 of last year, jump started by the iPhone 4S initial sales. Did people really think Apple was going to sell 70-100 million iPhones this next quarter? If you extrapolate out the 8-10 million initial sales numbers some were hoping for, it sure seems like it. Did people expect Apple’s quarterly revenue to hit $100 billion (as it would with such sales)? It’s absurd.

6) Now that we’ve calmed down, some perspective from Benedict Evans: Apple sold more iPhone 5s in a weekend than Nokia sold Lumias in a quarter.

7) The truly staggering number is that over 100 million iOS devices have already been updated to iOS 6. That’s roughly one quarter of all iOS devices in a few days. Google released Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) just about a year ago. It still doesn’t have 25% penetration.

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Cannot stop looking at this computer

THIS IS A COMPUTER

This is how they did it.

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I'm in total awe of this kid. Maybe you have to be a 15 year kid, oblivious to any  obstacles, with enough passion to convince people in believing in you to cure cancer. Not only did he came up with an idea to change cancer treatment, it looks like he will commercialize the nanotube test strips and turn the idea into reality. 

“No one will be excited about your work if you’re not excited about it.”

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Get paid to go to the gym, how sweet is that? I like the idea of GymPact anyways. Now integrated with RunKeeper.

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Now how cool is this?! Two Swedish geek girls invented the impossible - an invisible bicycle helmet. Smart fashionable design solving a huge problem. Watch the video to see how.

"The product and company named Hövding began as the industrial design master’s thesis of two students, Anna Haupt and Terese Alstinat, at Sweden’s Lund University. After five years of research and $10 million in funding, they’re now selling the invisible bike helmet." via TechCrunch

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Best review ever. Chris Brown hits women. Enough said.