What we’ve been reading
October 12, 2011
Steve Jobs.
- Remembering Steve Jobs | Statement by Apple
- Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 | Wired.com
- Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs (1985) | Playboy
- Steve Jobs in his own words | Engadget
- Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address | YouTube
- Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005) | Stanford
- “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” | Pocketmonstered
- The Steve Jobs I knew | WSJ.com
- Steve Jobs was always kind to me (or, regrets of an asshole) | The Wirecutter
- “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.” | curiosity counts
- What Steve Jobs taught us about advertising | The Ad Contrarian
Management.
- Become an extraordinary leader | Harvard Business Review
- The challenge of the average employee | Harvard Business Review
- Unsubscribe Monday | Made by Many
- Perfectionism: healthy or hurtful? | Harvard Business Review
- Why standardized rules about sustainability don’t make sense | Co. Design
- Designing the perfect elevator pitch: finding the turning point | The Atlantic
- How to be a truly global company: Skillful companies can integrate three strategies — customization, competencies, and arbitrage — into a better form of organisation | Strategy + Business
Innovation.
- Innovation Starvation | World Policy Institute
Technology.
Insights.
- Why TED’s ‘Ads worth spreading’ aren’t really spreading | Advertising Age
- Forever frugal: Retailers are coming to terms with a new reality: the consumer who traded down during the recession and never came back | WSJ.com
- The fragmentization of experiences | Influxinsights
- “…we’re witnessing the rise of a global Metamovement: a movement of movements | Umair Haque
- Welcome to the age of micro-planning | adliterate
- Kmart marketing boss: price is more important than brand | mUmBRELLA
- Patagonia’s “Buy Less” campaign may lead to more revenue | Harvard Business Review
- Minimum viable personality (for brands) | A VC
- How our online connectivity is making us better human beings | TNW
- It’s not only that cultural work is becoming algorithmic; cultural life is as well |The Late Age of Print
- Social enterprise employs immigrants to teach cooking classes and culture | Springwise
Creativity.
- Don’t count direct mail out | Brian Fetherstonhaugh
- Uncertainty, innovation, and the alchemy of fear | The 99 Percent
- Digital storytelling, statues and strata | smithery
- “IBM does just about the best advertising in the world” | Ad Aged–Will Madison Avenue Become Detroit?
- How having a baby made me learn to love comic sans | Co. Design
- Student, 22, founds company selling on-demand, 3-D printed eyewear | Co. Design
- What visual designers can learn from Biggie Smalls | design mind
Trends.
- (Re)Commerce: unlocking the value in past purchases | TrendWatching.com
- Research study: Google looked to its own employees to identify trends among longtime smartphone users around the world | Google Think Insights