June 2011
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“I like autonomous people who can take a project and figure out how to do it...”
– Tumblr founder David Karp
“Creativity comes from small groups. Small groups gave us the electric light, the...”
– Bruce Sterling, Islands in the Net
Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft →
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Peter Saville on his album cover artwork →
mkngyn:
Unknown Pleasures Joy Division (Factory, 1979) “This was the first and only time that the band gave me something that they’d like for a cover. I went to see Rob Gretton, who managed them, and he gave me a folder of material, which contained the wave image from the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy. They gave me the title too but I didn’t hear the album. The wave pattern was so...
Is a Well-Lived Life Worth Anything?
Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review
How would you define a good life? It’s a bafflingly tough question. An even tougher one: does the economy we have today value such a life? Does it help us create one?
Here’s what I see when I look not just at the surface, but deep inside the heart of the economy today:
Instead of an “energy industry,” I see a resource addiction that...
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