“Features are Debt, not Assets”
http://berzniz.com/post/128267561586/features-are-debt-not-assets
Year: 2015
“…In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours before falling into a second four-hour sleep.
Though sleep scientists were impressed by the study, among the general public the idea that we must sleep for eight consecutive hours persists. “
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783
“…Mainly, Facebook happened. Constructing social networks by blogging takes work. You have to read, respond, post. You have to stay on top of the topics sweeping through what used to be called the “blogosphere.” Facebook is much better at building social networks for people. And you don’t have to spend serious time writing essays. Twitter lowered the character count further.”
“…In fact, blogs now often are where the most interesting ideas are surfaced, argued, and appropriated into a discipline’s discourse. Unlike the output in scholarly journals and magazines, in these webs of blogs we get to see ideas emerging from conversation among people sharing what in the old days we’d take as early drafts. These webs allow participation by people regardless of credentials, enabling voices to rise to their own level of credibility. “
https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/08/30/why-blogging-still-matters/JkzFdTxoySZZwsyrFw7yMI/story.html
#bostonglobe
“We confuse convenience with enrichment. Just because a product makes our lives more convenient does not mean it makes it better.”
“Products that make a person’s life better, that is allow them to do something they could never do before, are much more valuable than products that help them do what they can already do easier. ”
“Convenience products don’t make people want to go out and use the product, as there is no incentive to use it.”
https://medium.com/@wenqinye/making-people-s-lives-better-52db61cebf44
“We’re heading Straight for AOL 2.0”
“…just imagine a phone system where every number you call to may require a different telephone…”
http://jacquesmattheij.com/aol-20
Why Donald Trump’s 2016 candidacy is probably already doomed
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/donald-trump-2016-election-primaries-2008-2012/
“No One Cares, So Do What You Want” — By Melanie Pinola
http://lifehacker.com/no-one-cares-so-do-what-you-want-1078553998
How Being Non-Confrontational Has Held Me Back in Life — By Melanie Pinola
http://lifehacker.com/how-being-non-confrontational-has-held-me-back-in-life-1722685647
“…If you build it, they will come (but only if you do lots and lots of marketing). “
http://blog.joemoreno.com/2015/03/kickstarter-secrets.html
“…Finally, consider the things that people do want to spend their money on. The defining consumer product of our age is the smartphone. A smartphone is a good, and it takes resources to make and transport it. Still, it takes a lot less resources than, say, a car. Most of its value is in the software that is loaded onto it and the people, information and entertainment you can connect to with it. That’s a different sort of value creation than 20th-century resource-based value creation. If that’s the direction the global economy is headed in, the connections between growth, trade and resource consumption aren’t going to be the same as they have been. That is probably a good thing.” — Justin Fox
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-08-31/maybe-this-global-slowdown-is-different