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"When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible...."

Wed, 09 May 2012 15:11:58 -0700

“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.”

- Ernest Hemingway, in a terrific 1958 interview with George Plimpton

When someone cancels a meeting at the last minute and I find myself with an unallocated hour, I'm like

Wed, 02 May 2012 16:48:23 -0700

runningastartup:

Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:32:31 -0700

Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing:

The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?” and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. On top of this, they layer the discipline of direct marketing, with its emphasis on quantitative measurement, scenario modeling via spreadsheets, and a lot of database queries. If a startup is pre-product/market fit, growth hackers can make sure virality is embedded at the core of a product. After product/market fit, they can help run up the score on what’s already working.

AirBnB getting sneaky on the supply side?

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:30:38 -0700

AirBnB getting sneaky on the supply side?:

Yesterday AirBnB announced that they raised $100M at a $1B valuation. This is a huge, huge accomplishment – but a lot of entrepreneurs are probably asking how they did it. Was it their awesome design? Excellent idea? Was it their uncanny business acumen? Just dumb luck?

My Answer: Craigslist Spam!

I believe AirBnB used multiple gmail accounts to spam craigslist and grow their site to a one billion dollar valuation.

newyorker: Shouts & Murmurs: Honest Pinterest Boards Stuff...

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:01:22 -0700

newyorker:

Shouts & Murmurs: Honest Pinterest Boards

Stuff I Want
Things I Super-Need
Presents I Want You to Want Me to Have
Dear Christ, Please Let These Items Go on Sale
Décor for My Pretend House
Seed Husks in Mason Jars
Cute Crafts for Three Pounds of Waxed Acorns I Ordered Online
I Am TOO Going to Keep Chickens, David
When I Get an Embosser…
Crushingly Expensive Ribbon
For No Reason: Jean Shrimpton

- For the rest of Ann Hodgman’s honest Pinterest boards: http://nyr.kr/IJ8C4w

new-aesthetic: “The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a...

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:54:15 -0700

new-aesthetic:

“The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene.”

Descriptive Camera, via Tom T

(Uses Mechanical Turk to create human descriptions of photographs.)

Bearded: Mocking Up Is Hard To Do

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:45:32 -0700

Bearded: Mocking Up Is Hard To Do:

beardedstudio:

Recently at Bearded we made a pretty drastic decision in terms of our web design process: we’re not creating mock-ups anymore.

Your Signature Dish Sucks

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:57:04 -0700

Your Signature Dish Sucks

Chuck Close

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:51:11 -0700

Chuck Close

ftff: AIGA NY Fresh dialogue poster from 1996 by Stefan...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 21:30:47 -0700

ftff:

AIGA NY Fresh dialogue poster from 1996 by Stefan Sagmeister. Jan Wilker walked into the office as I was photographing this and stared at it as if he was looking at an ancient religious artifact.

If you are wondering, those are cow tongues shot by photographer Tom Schierlitz. Also note the sad, sad tear in the upper left corner.

Made with Paper

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:52:15 -0700

Made with Paper

jacob: I was playing with Font Bureau’s Neue Haas Grotesk font...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:00:37 -0700

jacob:

I was playing with Font Bureau’s Neue Haas Grotesk font specimens (SVGs!) and accidentally created one of the greatest things I’ve ~~made~~ seen all year.

A quick sketch of what a certain app might look like with the UI...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:46:00 -0700

A quick sketch of what a certain app might look like with the UI so popular with the kids these days.

thechoicesthops: Fantastic UI: Scorekeeper, app for Playbook...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:34:23 -0700

thechoicesthops:

Fantastic UI: Scorekeeper, app for Playbook and iOS (via Emil Olsson)

Made with Paper

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:40:56 -0700

Made with Paper

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:32:56 -0700

Made with Paper

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:43:53 -0700

Made with Paper

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:28:02 -0700

Made with Paper

JCP's Think different moment.

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:47:24 -0800

JCP's Think different moment.:

Photo

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:23:50 -0800