If you know me, you know that every year around this time, I put together a compilation of the tunes that defined the year for me. I call it Wishlist. For the remaining days of december I will be counting them down.
Wish #1: Michael Kiwanuka ‘I’m Getting Ready’
I instantly fell in love with this new blend of soul, melody, and beautiful guitar songmanship when i heard it; it triggered memories of listening to “into the mystic” in my bedroom in the 5th grade.
Fast Company, I love you but you don’t need to tell people how to lead a creative life
The journey that is creativity -
beyond just being a great tribute to steve jobs, these remarks by apple design chief jonathan ive capture for me the challenges of the creative process in business today: the fragility of great ideas in an an overly rational world; not just having an idea, but the reality of building it; having the vision and balls to see and support the kernel of a great idea through the clutter of bad ones.
New Entry for Urban Dictionary: Spotify Rabbit-Hole
posted 3 months agoplaying around with spotify the last month or so i’ve discovered a new music behavior…
an awesome artist with huge catalog + spotify = “spotify rabbit hole”
i can’t stop
this is the best infographic illustration i have seen on all the different industries that amazon, apple, google, an facebook are disrupting/battling for king.
Online Check-Out
For all the talk about how integrated our real and virtual worlds have become, this video perfectly captures how in many ways they still are not.
you know memes have become mainstream when people start dressing up as them for a halloween party called “hallowmeme”
If you’ve ever read this blog, you know we’re pretty fascinated by the power of nostalgia. Here’s a pretty interesting find… celebrity letters to their younger selves. If you wrote a letter to your younger self, what would it say?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/interactive/2011/oct/14/dear-me-celebrity-letters-extract
