RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • Build Apps, Not Businesses

    Build Apps, Not Businesses cameronmoll: Sahil Lavingia: David Heinemeier Hansson of 37Signals is known for lambasting businesses that seem oblivious to the concept of profitability. I don’t really agree with him. I think that you should spend time doing fun little projects. Many fun little projects. Recognize that most of them will die, but that…

  • We extol celebrity at a time when it has never seemed more fleeting or meaningless. A lot more people are famous now for doing, well, nothing—and, so what? Fran Lebowitz in her Empire HBO documentary (Produced by Graydon Carter! Directed by Martin Scorsese!) complained—and I’m paraphrasing—that what has really been lost in American culture is…

  • illillill: PEACE CORPS/Retro Corporate Logo

  • Now, five years down the line and all we seem to be talking about is brands and how they can leverage social media and all that. Not at all interested. I couldn’t give a shit what the Internet is going to do to L’Oreal or Snickers or Sony or Kleenex or The Gap. They aren’t…

  • What galls me about two-spacers isn’t just their numbers. It’s their certainty that they’re right. Over Thanksgiving dinner last year, I asked people what they considered to be the “correct” number of spaces between sentences. The diners included doctors, computer programmers, and other highly accomplished professionals. Everyone—everyone!—said it was proper to use two spaces. Some…

  • When was the last time you made a fine stack of cows? [via solipsistnation]

  • I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush – that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it. Bank$y (via artismyhustle)

  • bashford: Times Square to Art Square is a very complex project with a simple goal: to turn all advertising on Times Square into art. “We want to convince the world that advertising space should be about more than promoting goods and services, that those spaces could also be used for creative expressions. We will invest…

  • Can You Read the Smallest Legible Computer Font?

  • ‘Money for Nothing’ was a much bigger hit than anything that Dire Straits had done before; that is, Knopfler made himself into a successful rock star by way of a song about people resenting rock stars’ success. He also abandoned his own opposition to making music videos, so the song was marketed with an MTV…