Lives Of Our Days

DJ Zeph & Raashan Ahmad “Floorwax”

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:37:06 +0800

DJ Zeph & Raashan Ahmad “Floorwax”

Jason Fried: Connecting The Dots

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 19:33:01 +0800

When you look back on events, it’s pretty incredible how things come together. Nothing happens independently. Everything is tied to something before it. Sometimes the links are more obvious than others, but it’s healthy to take a few moments to reflect on how many things – and people – had to come together in order for another thing to happen.

You just never know.

SBTRKT “Gloss” Loving the percussion track…...

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:41:26 +0800

SBTRKT “Gloss”

Loving the percussion track… Now, more keys pleeeease!

Strategy Matters More Than Ever

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 22:36:05 +0800

Strategy Matters More Than Ever:

Seth Godin:

When everyone is playing the same game, your execution is critical. Your store is like their store, your bread is like their bread, so we care very much about the care and skill you put into your product or service.

Of course, that still matters, but the revolution of the web means that the way you go to market, the structure of your offering, the model of your business—these are sufficient to cause you to lose, regardless of how you play the game. (And able to give you a huge post if you plan right).

Sam Walton was a huge success, largely because he developed a new retail strategy, not because he was better at running a store than anyone else. Local bookstores are in trouble, not because they don’t work hard or care a lot, but because they are saddled with expenses that used to be smart (rent for a local storefront) in a world where they are merely ballast.

Running a business with the wrong strategy in the wrong place at the wrong time is possible, but it’s an uphill battle. The alternative is to think very hard about your model, your costs and the benefits you offer to the people you’d like to serve.

You could change from a product to a service offering, from free to expensive, from low service to high service, from storefront to web, from large to small, from spam to permission, from acquiring new customers to delighting old ones, from wide open to invitiation only, from dirty to green, from secret to transparent, from troll to benefactor, from custom to mass, or for any of these, vice versa.

Not changing your strategy merely because you’re used to the one you have now is a lousy strategy.

"Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve."

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:16:44 +0800

“Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve.”

- Robert Lewin

The ocean never ceases to amaze me… Infinite yet local....

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:15:41 +0800

North Point

Rabbits

Home

The ocean never ceases to amaze me…

Infinite yet local. Loud but tranquil. Deadly yet cleansing. Timeless but transitory.

Always changing, yet always the same.

Gregory Porter “1960 What?” As the top comment...

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:09:22 +0800

Gregory Porter “1960 What?”

As the top comment says:

Faith in nowadays music: restored.

Soften The Fuck Up

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:02:00 +0800

Soften The Fuck Up

"I don’t think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it’s OK to talk about..."

Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:59:00 +0800

“I don’t think people talk about mental illness a lot, but they need to know it’s OK to talk about how they are feeling. People are afraid of telling the truth because they think it’s going to hurt everyone around them. I’ve kept so much inside that I’ve literally lost it. I wish more people would get help when they feel like they need it—not just to look to medicine, but to the support of others.”

- Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos opens up about his own mental health struggles in our feature “Rite of Passion”, by Larry Fitzmaurice.

Machinedrum - U Don’t Survive (SBTRKT Edit) Musical...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:00:36 +0800

Machinedrum - U Don’t Survive (SBTRKT Edit)

Musical perfection!

Aaaaaand… If I never hear the word Z****e again I’ll die a happy man.

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:45:51 +0800

Aaaaaand… If I never hear the word Z****e again I’ll die a happy man.

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Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:41:34 +0800

Zara McFarlane “Until Tomorrow” (Ogris Debris...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:31:17 +0800

Zara McFarlane “Until Tomorrow” (Ogris Debris Remix)

It's Easier To Love A Brand When The Brand Loves You Back

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:21:34 +0800

It's Easier To Love A Brand When The Brand Loves You Back:

Seth Godin:

Worth thinking about that the next time you’re annoyed at a customer.

Or when you’re dreaming up a policy designed to punish a few outlier customers while it actually annoys all of them.

Tell me again why the gift certificates you sell have an expiration date?

Photo

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:20:35 +0800

"Your job as manager is to be a clock, your job as leader is to be a compass, and your job as founder..."

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:11:14 +0800

“Your job as manager is to be a clock, your job as leader is to be a compass, and your job as founder is to be a swiss army knife.”

- Aaron Levie

taylordavidson: Where one begins and the other ends. (Taken...

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:06:16 +0800

taylordavidson:

Where one begins and the other ends. (Taken with Instagram)

The xx “Angels”

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:24:57 +0800

The xx “Angels”

"Your company’s culture is not what it is because of what you say, but because of what you do."

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:21:00 +0800

“Your company’s culture is not what it is because of what you say, but because of what you do.”

- From the brilliant mind of Aaron Levie, this quote is right up there with

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” - said the company just about to be disrupted.

via Bijan Sabet

Mr Fingers “Can You Feel It”

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:18:00 +0800

Mr Fingers “Can You Feel It”