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Harvard Business Review (via DF):

Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, "Success hides problems." It's an insight Google should acknowledge and act on. Google's leadership admirably tolerates failure on side-projects (and big projects as well), but what Pixar has that Google does not is a culture where the fear of complacency is a strong motivator, where new problems are identified, discussed, and addressed openly and honestly, all of which requires humility.

Paring down to ≤100 personal items is perhaps taking it to an extreme, but there are a lot of great points in here. Especially the one about how paying for experiences (e.g., travel, concerts and events, etc.) is far more fulfilling than paying for "stuff".

Tangentially related to my recent post about The Shallows (at One Thin Tumbl).

at Stubbornella, and w/r/t/ my recent post about The Shallows — Nicole Sullivan manages to say more of substance in this blog post than Carr does in 250 pages. (Perhaps because of its more personal nature?)

at SPIEGEL ONLINE, and w/r/t/ my recent post about The Shallows:

He'd never dream of keeping a blog. Nor does he know anybody else his age who would want to. And he's certainly never tweeted before. "What's the point?" he asks.

Whitney Hess at A List Apart:

My client says, “I want to build a spaceship!” I say, “No, we need to make a kite.”

at msnbc.com (via B²)

at Mother Jones:

I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there's a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life's earnings, and you are collateral. We are all collateral for the banks. I have this look like, "What the heck are you talking about?" I'm trying to hide that look and look clueless. I figured clueless was better than argumentative. So they said, "You don't know this?! You are a member of Congress, and you don't know this?!" And I said, "Please forgive me. I'm just ignorant of these things." And then of course, it turned into something about the Federal Reserve and the Bilderbergers and all that stuff. And now you have the feeling of anti-Semitism here coming in, mixing in. Wow.

at Theresa Neil

at markitechture:

Marissa Mayer had a question – the right question – and she answered it by testing. ¶ “If you make links less blue, do we lose money as a business?” ¶ Yes, yes you do.

via lifehack.org

via macosxhints.com