July 2010
5 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
Cut Copy (151)
Kurban (28)
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The Golden Filter (13)
Simian Mobile Disco (11)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18) →
Korn (55)
School of Seven Bells (38)
Danger Mouse (27)
Sting (16)
Nada Surf (13)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
Bob Marley & The Wailers (13)
Scissor Sisters (12)
Little Dragon (11)
The Mary Onettes (11)
Delorean (9)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
The Black Keys (35)
3OH!3 (14)
RJD2 (11)
Marilyn Monroe (10)
Frank Sinatra (9)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
The Chemical Brothers (21)
The Mary Onettes (16)
Sia (13)
The Herbaliser (5)
DJ Rap (3)
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June 2010
9 posts
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Delight
Great products do not come from simply listening to what customers ask for, but from developing a deep understanding of the customer’s world, discovering unmet needs, and surprising customers by catering to these needs. This is the way to create delighted customers.
-Kano
Plans vs Planning
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” - Dwight Eisenhower
“Plans change very easily. Worldly affairs do not always go according to plan and orders have to change rapidly in response to change in circumstances. If one sticks to the idea that once set, a plan should not be changed, a business cannot exist for long.It is said that...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-20) →
We Are Scientists (19)
Ratatat (19)
Morcheeba (10)
The Chemical Brothers (8)
UNKLE (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-13) →
The Mary Onettes (45)
Yeasayer (33)
The Chemical Brothers (33)
Rage Against the Machine (31)
Jane’s Addiction (29)
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2 tags
Lean Principles: The Balance Point
* Eliminate waste does not mean throw away all documentation.
* Amplify learning does not mean keep on changing your mind.
* Decide as late as possible does not mean procrastinate.
* Deliver as fast as possible does not mean rush and do sloppy work.
* Empower the team does not mean abandon leadership.
* Build integrity in does not mean big, upfront design.
* See the whole does not mean...
“Design is the fundamental soul of the company that expresses itself through an...”
– Steve Jobs
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-6) →
Trentemøller (41)
The Mary Onettes (24)
Stone Temple Pilots (23)
Miss Li (17)
Broken Bells (10)
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Ideas Are Worthless →
Execution is everything.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-30) →
Major Lazer (35)
Balkan Beat Box (28)
Toro y Moi (21)
The Cure (17)
Kraak & Smaak (17)
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May 2010
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-23) →
Gogol Bordello (13)
Moby (10)
Faithless (10)
Cold Cave (9)
Groove Armada (8)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-16) →
The Morning Benders (2)
Johannes Brahms (2)
Johann Sebastian Bach (2)
The Toxic Avenger (1)
The Cinematic Orchestra (1)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-9) →
Anoraak (3)
Ludwig van Beethoven (2)
The Whip (2)
Johann Sebastian Bach (2)
Flunk (1)
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Ghetto Code
A particularly inelegant and obviously suboptimal section of code that still meets the requirements.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-5-2) →
New Young Pony Club (1)
College (1)
Fatboy Slim (1)
Smoke City (1)
Flunk (1)
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“Perspiration is the best form of differentiation.”
–
Scott Belsky
April 2010
11 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Devo (18)
Caribou (9)
Broken Bells (4)
Bonobo (4)
Dan Deacon (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Groove Armada (23)
Broken Bells (20)
Gorillaz (14)
Xiu Xiu (12)
Toro y Moi (11)
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“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. And I don’t...”
– Steve Jobs
On Apples And Ideas
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-11) →
The Temper Trap (50)
Florence & The Machine (22)
Groove Armada (12)
Broken Bells (11)
Jónsi (10)
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“I skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
– Wayne Gretzky
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-4) →
Girls (24)
Goldfrapp (17)
Mux Mool (14)
She & Him (13)
Groove Armada (11)
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2 tags
WatchAmazingness from my camera last night. The Temper Trap - “Sweet Disposition” Live at Music Hall of Williamsburg.
1 tag
“The most powerful narcotic in the world is the feeling of belonging.”
March 2010
8 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Evil Nine (1)
Gorillaz (1)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow (1)
Bonobo (1)
Portugal. The Man (1)
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“While most people appreciate public acclaim and the occasional monetary award,...”
– Marty Neumeier
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Muse (22)
Moderat (15)
The Moons (12)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (12)
Josiah Wolf (11)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Gorillaz (59)
The Afghan Whigs (29)
Portugal. The Man (26)
YACHT (26)
Gogol Bordello (23)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Muse (13)
The Lemonheads (11)
Felix Cartal (8)
Evan Dando (7)
These New Puritans (7)
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The Innovation Funnel
More thoughts from Marty Neumeier…
The biggest hurdle to innovation is the corporate longing for certainty about costs, market size, revenues, profits, and other quantities, all of which can’t be known when an idea is new. Ironically, there seems to be no hurdle to investing in dying businesses, decaying strategies, and shrinking markets, all of which can be seen without a crystal ball. It...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
Morgan Page, Morgan Page (13)
Status Green (10)
Cornershop (9)
Riva Starr (9)
Efterklang (9)
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February 2010
16 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
Four Tet (37)
Editors (30)
The Antlers (22)
Juliana Hatfield (12)
Hot Chip (10)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14) →
Beirut (33)
Massive Attack (21)
PHANTOGRAM (20)
The Knife (19)
Yeasayer (19)
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“Doing a great job and not meeting the customer’s objectives is as useless as...”
– Thomas Faranda
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done...”
– Peter Drucker
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
– Albert Einstein
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Oh No He Didn't!
Bo Peabody wrote a controversial article titled “Facebook and Twitter Will Always Be Crappy Businesses”. He is the founder of the old “make your ugly page” company Tripod. Kinda like Geocities, which was also ugly. Anyway I guess they were reflective of their times.
So turns out Tripod is still in business and making like $350K a month. And Peabody uses that to write a...
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The Excel Crowd: Where's The Money in Eiffel?
I’m reading Designful Company by Marty Neumeier. Here is a section from the book that reveals a big shortcoming in today’s businesses. It also happens to be a subject I’m quite passionate about.
Unfortunately, most business managers are deaf, dumb and blind when i comes to creative process. They learned their chops by rote, through a bounded tradition of spreadsheet-based...
“When someone says ‘Be interesting to see how this pans out’, it...”
– Me
“It’s only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it. The rest is just movement.”
– Shigeo Shingo