Category Archives: Good reads
Inspired and interesting text online … things worth reading.
Why Instagram Video Won’t Kill Vine
http://tribecafilm.com/blogs/vine-instagram-facebook-film-digital-artists
“Facebook has announced video for Instagram, and it will be popular – but it’s missing the limitations that make Vine the artist’s medium. In fact, it reminds us a lot of the film versus digital debate.”
The Curse of the Network Effect
“One way around the problem of completeness is to facilitate the transaction itself. Companies like oDesk, etsy and Uber, ensure they are in the middle of the money by processing the flow of cash. It’s much easier to justify taking a cut when you hold the gold, particularly when doing so adds convenience and security to the transaction.”
The Ongoing Story: Twitter and Writing
“My thoughts return to Salinger and his sense of writing as a mysterious ceremony whose secrets must not be disclosed. This philosophy would eventually mutate into the idea that writing is a mysterious ceremony made vulgar by the act of publishing.”
Things Entrepreneurs Never Confess To Their VCs
The Internet of Things …
Samsung’s new innovation fund could help health startups take over the Internet of things
Samsung’s new innovation fund could help health startups take over the Internet of things
The Secret Science Behind Big Data And Word Of Mouth
There’s a science behind word of mouth. It’s not random and it’s not luck why people talk about some things rather than others. Just like behavioral economists have studied why people make certain choices, or statisticians have pulled out insights about human behavior from “Big Data,” researchers have been hard at work analyzing the human behavior behind our decisions to talk and share.
I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script
There’s a great story about Pablo Picasso. Some guy told Picasso he’d pay him to draw a picture on a napkin. Picasso whipped out a pen and banged out a sketch, handed it to the guy, and said, “One million dollars, please.”
“A million dollars?” the guy exclaimed. “That only took you thirty seconds!”
“Yes,” said Picasso. “But it took me fifty years to learn how to draw that in thirty seconds.”
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2009/09/i_will_not_read.php
He was way more interested in telling his one story than in being a writer. It was like buying all the parts to a car and starting to build it before learning the basics of auto mechanics. You’ll learn a lot along the way, I said, but you’ll never have a car that runs.
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