October 2007
8 posts
WatchJim Coudal speaking at the GDC/BC Salazar Student Design Awards 2006
Inspiring Ricardo Semler lecture at MIT →
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Pat Riley on “the disease of more”
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In his book ‘Showtime,’ Pat Riley unveiled ‘the disease of more’ and argued that ‘success is often the first step toward disaster.’ According to Riley, after the 1980 Lakers won, everyone shifted into a more selfish mode. They had sublimated their respective games to win as a group; now they wanted to reap the rewards as...
IX. Bad economics makes bad ethics.
ProcterThomson’s Laws
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”
– Warren Buffett
‘There’s definitely a lot of betting going on, and it’s not rational,’ said Tim O’Reilly, a technology conference promoter and book publisher. When the bubble inevitably pops, he said, ‘there are going to be a lot of people out of work again.’ Mr. O’Kelley, formerly of Right Media, said other entrepreneurs had begun to think that the financing game is best played by...
Good design is honest. It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept.
Dieter Rams
Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth... →
Classic network effect