Bill Watterson, Creator of Calvin & Hobbes from his commencement speech at Kenyon College, eighteen years before David Foster Wallace’s famous “This is Water.”
TheBadPrince
Let's resuscitate individuality before it dies.
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2013-05-21
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2013-05-20
There is no way to fake hustle.
— Gary Vaynerchuk, Co-founder of Vaynermedia
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Two strategic choices: do what everyone else is doing, only better, faster, cheaper. Or do something different and truly distinctive.
— Professor Ron Sanchez, Copenhagen Business School.
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Sir Ken Robinson: How to escape education’s death valley (by TEDtalksDirector)
For the guy who has the most watched TEDtalk of all time, his second one just might be better.
If there is anything I’ve shared that should be watched, it’s this.
Source: youtube.com
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2013-05-16
FUCK COMMITTEES
(I believe in lunatics)It’s about the struggle between individuals with jagged passion in their work and today’s faceless corporate committees, which claim to understand the needs of the mass audience, and are removing the idiosyncrasies, polishing the jags, creating a thought-free, passion-free, cultural mush that will not be hated nor loved by anyone. By now, virtually all media, architecture, product and graphic design have been freed from ideas, individual passion, and have been relegated to a role of corporate servitude, carrying out corporate strategies and increasing stock prices. Creative people are now working for the bottom line.
Magazine editors have lost their editorial independence, and work for committees of publishers (who work for committees of advertisers). TV scripts are vetted by producers, advertisers, lawyers, research specialists, layers and layers of paid executives who determine whether the scripts are dumb enough to amuse what they call the ‘lowest common denominator’. Film studios out films in front of focus groups to determine whether an ending will please target audiences. All cars look the same. Architectural decisions are made by accountants. Ads are stupid. Theater is dead.
Corporations have become the sole arbiters of cultural ideas and taste in America. Our culture is corporate culture.
Culture used to be the opposite of commerce, not a fast track to ‘content’- derived riches. Not so long ago captains of industry (no angels in the way they acquired wealth) thought that part of their responsibility was to use their millions to support culture. Carnegie built libraries, Rockefeller built art museums, Ford created his global foundation. What do we now get from our billionaires? Gates? Or Eisner? Or Redstone? Sales pitches. Junk mail. Meanwhile, creative people have their work reduced to ‘content’ or ‘intellectual property’. Magazines and films become ‘delivery systems’ for product messages.
But to be fair, the above is only 99 percent true.
I offer a modest solution: Find the cracks in the wall. There are a very few lunatic entrepreneurs who will understand that culture and design are not about fatter wallets, but about creating a future. They will understand that wealth is means, not an end. Under other circumstances they may have turned out to be like you, creative lunatics. Believe me, they’re there and when you find them, treat them well and use their money to change the world.
Tibor Kalman
New York, June 1998Source: youmightfindyourself
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Barack Trek: Into the Darkness segment from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Sigh. Motherf*&#!^$.Source: youtube.com
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I have not failed. I just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
— Thomas Edison
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David Beckham’s Goal that Shook the World (by Wouter Haringsma)
Only right to share this video today on his retirement.
Source: youtube.com
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2013-05-15
The Social Revolution - Remember Me (by devinsupertramp)
LOVED this!WE are the greatest computers ever and will always be greater than all that comes after us combined. WE are on the brink of a revolution unlike anything before it. WE are at the foot of the greatest social and technological frontier in all of history. WE are the generation that will change everything. WE are NOW.
Source: youtube.com
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2013-05-14
Amazing Career Advice For College Grads From LinkedIn's Billionaire Founder
“The 3 Secrets Of Highly Successful Graduates”
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If You Think You Can’t… Think Again: The Sway of Self-Efficacy | Psychology Today
Henry Ford said it best, “Whether you think that you can or you can’t, you’re usually right.” But few of us realize the veracity of his statement. Fortunately, there’s science (and a little bit of fiction) to back it up – so listen up and learn!
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2013-05-13
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The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment. The future is a mental projection that you are having in the present moment.
— Eckhart Tolle
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And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you, to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say “No. This is what’s important.
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
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“…There are moments on the brink, when you can give in to self-doubt, uncertainty, and admonishment, or not; dive into a different culture, or not; set sail for the unknown, or not; walk out onto a stage, or not. A moment only a few seconds long, when your future hangs in the balance, poised above a chasm. It is a crossroads. Resist then, and there is no returning to the known world. If you turn back, there is only what might have been. Above that invisible crossroads are inscribed the words: Give up your will, all who travel here…”
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