July 2011
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This house is very inspiring. →
House W | KRAUS SCHÖNBERG ARCHITECTS
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Just a little FF sample
Music Subscription Faceoff: How Does Spotify... →
When Spotify moored its boatload of music to U.S. shores last week, music lovers were faced with a conundrum: Should I switch to Spotify, or stick with my current music subscription service of choice? Or, for the non-early adopter set: Should I check out this Spotify thing at all? Well, as inv…
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I just got my forrst invite. →
Forrst is a community of passionate developers and designers focused on helping themselves and others get better at their craft, providing thoughtful critiques, and sharing their knowledge to build better applications and websites.
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“Slow down.
Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities...”
– by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Keep moving.
The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce...”
– by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Harvest ideas.
Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous...”
– by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Everyone is a leader.
Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge....”
– by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Begin anywhere.
John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common...”
– by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Drift.
Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment....”
– by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an...”
– by Bruce Mau©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Capture accidents.”
– The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Go deep.”
– The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.
by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child).”
– Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.
by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Process is more important than outcome.”
– When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Forget about good.”
– Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.
by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“Allow events to change you.”
– You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
by Bruce Mau ©1998 Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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Reflections on Bruce Mau's "Incomplete Manifesto...
So starting today, I’m going to begin a series of daily posts that reflect on a paper written by the design guru, Bruce Mau, in 1998 called, Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. I will post one quote a day as a means to reflect on this design process. If you’d like to skip ahead, feel free to read them all here.
EXCLUSIVE: Google to Retire Blogger & Picasa... →
Say goodbye to the Picasa and Blogger names: Google intends to retire several non-Google name brands and rename them as Google products, Mashable has learned. The move is part of a larger effort to unify its brand for the public launch of Google+, the search giant’s social initiative. Blogg…
