Warby Parker’s 2011 Annual report. The fact that it isn’t a Verdana infested report makes me want to read it.
Jeff Widener’s Tank Man is probably my pick of the bunch.
Modern workplaces, or, as I would like to pigeon hole them as “places where the over enthusiastic 20 somethings of today work”, like to sell the job by talking about a more social and collaborative work environment. Something like this. Nice and shiny! But I wouldn’t want to work at a place where I would have to take happy pills just to tolerate the half a dozen peers who are made to sit within 10 sq. feet of space around me.
Don’t get me wrong here. I am all for collaboration and using your co-workers as a sounding board. I believe it’s a necessity for any sort of content creation and curation. But taking away that personal space can be downright demoralizing to some.
Solitude can even help us learn. According to research on expert performance by the psychologist Anders Ericsson, the best way to master a field is to work on the task that’s most demanding for you personally. And often the best way to do this is alone.
If you don’t appreciate Wes Anderson’s simplicity, I am not sure why am I even friends with you.
This isn’t complicated; there are no shades of grey here. Do we disapprove of car bombings and drive-by shootings, or not? Do we consistently condemn state-sponsored, extrajudicial killings as acts of pure terror, no matter where in the world, or on whose orders, they occur? Or do we shrug our shoulders, turn a blind eye and continue our descent into lawless barbarism?
Since October, Google’s GKBO appears to have been systematically accessing Mocality’s database and attempting to sell their competing product to our business owners. They have been telling untruths about their relationship with us, and about our business practices, in order to do so. As of January 11th, nearly 30% of our database has apparently been contacted.
As I read through, I was amazed as to how detailed yet coherent the investigative analysis was. At the same time I was dumbstruck by what Google is turning into.
I would like to believe that this instance is more of an exception than the norm as Gruber vaguely suggests, but it highlights how Google seems to be loosing control over certain pockets within the company. Which by the way, is an unforeseeable thought at Apple.
It also gives some credence to the argument that Google has finally become Microsoftesqe in terms of it’s size so much so that it is loosing focus and the engineering single mindedness that gave us “Google Search”. Pity.
Update: What was I telling you about Google starting to loose control?
Update 2: Maybe I should rename this as Of Google and loosing control
I’ll be out back, I’m going to find a tree to chop down.
Yes Mr. Anderson, I will be eagerly visiting you, as always.
(Source: Gruber)
The symbolic doomsday clock is now 5 minutes from the proverbial _midnight_. It’s a direct resultant from a failure to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, act on climate change, or idiots clamering for presidency of a roman empire of today.
Nothing surprising.
But the interesting read is this,
While at Pentagram I designed the clock icon, and I had the dubious honor of preparing files for the clock to show ticking all the way down to midnight.
Prefect: “Application fees are a big scam, man. They charge me 1500 bucks as application fee!”
Dent: “I think it’s called “Application & Service Fee”.”
Prefect: “For what? It’s not like they come in and give me a _handjob_. It’s an online form. I fill it out myself. After which, I hop into the shower and wank off by myself.”
Dent: “Right.”
Prefect: “Right.”
Dent: “Right.”
Se7en probably stands out in this list. This is what he says about the movie…
I thought it was a structural… you know, it was as impressive to me that Kevin Spacey would show up spattered with blood at the two hour point of that movie as it is that Janet Lee gets slashed to death in the shower in Psycho.
(Source: kottke.org)
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