You can do anything if you stop trying to do everything
. How ironic for me to re-post this.
Post by Oliver Emberton:
View Post on QuoraYou can do anything if you stop trying to do everything
June 2013
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Debunking The Myth Of Apple’s “Golden Ratio” →
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The Golden Ratio: just typing the words can make the clouds part. The most mathematical way of describing the ratio would be 1.6180 (read more here).
Imperfection is perfection.
April 2013
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March 2013
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February 2013
2 posts
The Url Project
Everyone who reblogs this will get their url written down on a scrap of paper and left in a public place. It may be resting along the shelves of a grocery store or in between the slats of a park bench. It will say something along the lines of “You found me! Now go here (insert your url) and tell them where I was.” Want this? Reblog!
Interesting. Let’s see how long this takes.
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Facebook is supposed to envelope us in the warm embrace of our social network, and scanning friends’ pages is supposed to make us feel loved, supported and important (at least in the lives of those we like). But skimming through photos of friends’ life successes can trigger feelings of envy, misery and loneliness as well, according to researchers from two German universities. The scientists studied 600 people who logged time on the social network and discovered that one in three felt worse after visiting the site—especially if they viewed vacation photos. Facebook frequenters who spent time on the site without posting their own content were also more likely to feel dissatisfied.
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The most common cause of Facebook frustration came from users comparing themselves socially to their peers, while the second most common source of dissatisfaction was “lack of attention” from having fewer comments, likes and general feedback compared to friends.
” —Researchers study why Facebook makes you feel miserable, confirming the basic tenets of Leon Festinger’s 1954 social comparison theory.
Remind yourself how to stay sane by revising your inner stories.
(via explore-blog)
December 2012
2 posts
“Can you believe that 40% of the top 100 brands (Interbrand, 2011) still have not made the switch to Twitter’s brand-friendly layout? Granted it’s still fairly new, having been released only at 2 ½ months ago, but given the benefits of the revised”
—The New Twitter Layout – was the hype worth it?
November 2012
1 post
Seesaw, A Decision-Making Service From CoTweet Founders →
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Matthew Panzarino, thenextweb.com
Seesaw is a new company from three co-founders of CoTweet, one of the first big Twitter business services. The new company lists Aaron Gotwalt, Jesse Engle and Kyle Sollenberger as its founders.
A Techcrunch report by Drew Olanoff no…
Seesaw, a new social decision making company from the founders of CoTweet http://flpbd.it/FI7LF Looking forward to this…
October 2012
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The Curse of Cow Clicker →
wired.com
tetw:
by Jason Tanz
Bogost launched Cow Clicker in July 2010. Within weeks, it had achieved cult status among indie-game fans and social-game critics. Every “I’m clicking a cow” newsfeed update served as a badge of ironic protest. And then something surprising happened…
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90s to present.
“To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people know about camera angles now, but not so many know about sentences.”
—Joan Didion on writing (via explore-blog) Brilliant.
Every 4 years, the #1 concern of the American people is the Economy →
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Yet we’ve never once even nominated, let alone elected, an economist to be the President of the United States of America.
Instead we keep electing lawyers. Now I don’t want to shit on lawyers, but I will. Lawyers are good at one thing, language. And their specific skill with language is to…
