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November 2011

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She resents, as well, the “survivor” label and the current emphasis on embracing breast cancer as a growth experience.

“This is ugly, this is nasty,” she says. “I want to know why it happens and stop it.”

” —ALL MY EYES: Breast Cancer Awareness, 1777

Oct 31, 20111 note

“The airlines will surely continue to tweak their formulas, searching for what Scott O’Leary, the managing director of customer experience at United, described as “the sweet spot between speed and a sense of order.” —Airlines Are Trying to Cut Boarding Times on Planes - NYTimes.com

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“His propaganda techniques were totally cynical: “That propaganda is good which leads to success, and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired result,” he wrote. “It is not propaganda’s task to be intelligent, its task is to lead to success.” —Joseph Goebbels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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“At some point, we, as designers, have to stand up and say, “This isn’t really doing what you think it’s doing. It’s just making our relationship with our users worse.” —The New Amex Biz Travel Site Thinks I’m An Idiot » UIE Brain Sparks

Oct 31, 20111 note

“The motto or tagline of Brooklyn Beta was everywhere: “Make something you love.” The design, by Workshop, emphasized “Make” and “Love,” and so, from a distance or with skewed or unfocused eyes, all you saw was “Make Love.” Sure you could snicker at that, but I latched onto the idea that we should be makers of things that make people feel loved.” —Weightshift — Memo: No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn Beta

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October 2011

“The nature of large teams is such that even when you do have wins, they come after long, tiresome and disproportionately many hurdles. And this takes all the wind out of them. Often when I shipped a feature it felt more like relief than euphoria.” —Dhanji R. Prasanna, Former Google Wave Team (via sefsar)

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“Better to figure out why you are a great orange, be able to communicate the value they get by choosing your orange and making sure you deliver the best orange possible.” —Use Competition As An Opportunity - DesignTAXI.com

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“Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!” —Hacker ethic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oct 26, 20111 note

“However infectious the excitement that permeates the mobile payment ecosystem, it apparently missed the merchants who argue that investments in new contact-less point of sale systems must be balanced by a reduction in the interchange fees that at times dwarf merchant profits.” —» Google Wallet – A missed opportunity? Drop Labs

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“Now, I also timed myself from the moment I entered the checkout line, up till the moment I took out my wallet to pay. That turned out to be about 15 minutes at Costco, 12 minutes at Walmart and about 8 minutes at our grocer. In an environment where mobile wallet adoption rides on the benefit to the customer, there is nothing offered today by Google Wallet (or ISIS from what I hear so far) that will help shave a combined 35 minutes off of my weekend trip that could have been well spent with my feet up on the couch and holding a cold beverage.” —» Google Wallet – A missed opportunity? Drop Labs

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“In fact, when your mission is based around creating customer value, around creating great products, cannibalization and disruption aren’t “bad things” to be avoided. They’re things you actually strive for — because they let you improve the outcome for your customer.” —Farnam Street – How Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator’s Dilemma

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“In the age of email, texting, iChat and Skype, baseball remains tied to the traditions established in the Civil War era of flannel uniforms. La Russa conveyed his decisions to the bullpen with a device born the same year as the National League: the telephone.” —2011 World Series — Tony La Russa of St. Louis Cardinals takes full blame for bullpen phone mix-up - ESPN

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“The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done — that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.” —Buckminster Fuller Quotes

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“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” —Romans 12:2 NIV - Do not conform to the pattern of this - Bible Gateway

Oct 25, 20111 note

“what I took away from Playful is that making things is still the best way to complain” —Occupy the future at Playful 2011 – Hubbub (via iamdanw)

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