Marketers have been talking (and working) on the 5 Ps for centuries, but Marketing gurú Sean Godin considers that something disturbing has happened. Remarkable Marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Purple Cow is about why you need to put a Purple Cow into everything you build, why TV and mass media are no longer… View Post
Video of the day: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, professor of psychologist and author of Flow, talks about the state of total immersion in a task that is challenging yet closely matched to one’s abilities. So my research has been focused more on — (…): where — in everyday life, in our normal experience — do we feel really happy? And to start those… View Post
Quote of the day Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore? ~MARCUS AURELIUS CREATIVITY To be creative is to stay hungry, Creative Something SCIENCE Why the scientist who unravelled DNA is selling his Nobel Prize, The Atlantic BOOKS Writers pick the best books of 2014,… View Post
If the English language lives inside you, and if you live inside your language, The Glamour of Grammar invites you to embrace grammar with glamour. Avoid speed bumps caused by misspellings But if spelling has the power to express, misspellings have the power to distract and confound. British spellers prefer programme, centre, cheque, and humour to the conventional American spellings…. View Post
Quote of the day The voice you hear in your head, the language you speak to yourself–that’s not just your voice or your language. Writing is less about finding your own voice than about figuring out how to say something someone. ~NOAH BERLATSKY, author of Wonder Woman CAREERS The magic of dreaming big, 99u TECHNOLOGY Now, anyone can buy a… View Post
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), an influential Russian painter and art theorist, contains two parts and twelve illustrations. This short book tries to answer the question What is he trying to do?, question some of us formulate when we stand in front of an abstract painting. They say, ‘Kandinsky paints music’; he actually breaks down the barrier between music… View Post
Quote of the day If we let our own skills fade by relying too much on automation, we are going to render ourselves less capable, less resilient and more subservient to our machines. We will create a world more fit for robots than for us. ~NICHOLAS CARR, author of The Shallows and The Glass Cage ECONOMY The battle between Netflix and… View Post