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Horowitz offers startup entrepreneurs and established business leaders the following advice: “The CEO must be the keeper of the story. The CEO is responsible for getting the story right, that it’s up to date, compelling, and can move the hearts of men and women. That’s the fundamental responsibility of the chief executive.” ‘Your Story Is…
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materiallust: J O S E F A L B E R S i n k d r a w i n g s t u d y f o r t e n a y u c a 1936 married to textile designer anni albers, and best known for his homages to the square,…
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[July 21, 1882] You really have to understand how I consider art. To reach the essence of it, you have to work long and hard. I want to make drawings that will touch people. Either in a figure, or in a landscape, I would like to express, not something sentimentally melancholy, but sincere sorrow. In…
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IRS says free software projects can’t be nonprofits
mostlysignssomeportents: In a disturbing precedent, the Yorba Foundation, which makes apps for GNU/Linux, has had its nonprofit status application rejected by the IRS because some of projects may benefit for-profit entities. Read more…
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The biggest obstacle to creativity is attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you’re doing. And in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. I got a call from someone who wanted me to lead a workshop on creativity.…
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hijabiswag: friendship game strong
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engineeringhistory: Motorola T03 transistor, circa 1950s.
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We will not go out and get a ‘real’ job because, frankly, the real jobs don’t exist yet. Why We Should Stop Telling Millennials to Get ‘Real’ Jobs (via good)
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samueldelany: “The really subversive thing about sci-fi is making you ask the questions about what you consider to be human, what you think is worthy of respect or love or the right to life,” Dorney says. “Delany’s early novels are written before Stonewall, before the gay rights movement had articulated itself…
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Instead of training people to become marketers or to write the next useless phone app, we’re going to support people who want to see through the media, and use it to wage attacks on the status quo, this is media studies for Occupiers. -Douglas Rushkoff on his new master’s program in Media Studies at CUNY-Queens…