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Don’t Forget Haiti
Tent City
07/31/10
Part of a project my buddy Ryan Booth is working on called Don’t Forget Haiti. I don’t much about the project, but this film is incredibly powerful. I love his filming and post-processing style on this.
Ryan has an in-depth post on his blog about the project, along with another video called Slidewalk. It’s only a minute long and it will impact you.
ps – You can grab the music from it on Gatlin Elm’s website.
Haiti Earthquake Aftermath Montage
by Khalid Mohtaseb
02/22/10
Chilling and haunting, yet still beautiful. Shot with a 5d Mark II. Read more on Khalid’s Vimeo page.
This quote is an aside in the content of the article, but brilliant nonetheless.
Crowdsourcing is the future – however if you don’t trust your users to build/create/upload awesome work – they won’t trust you with their crowd capital.
Harper Reed, Exclusive Interview: Threadless CTO Harper Reed Heads to Rackspace
09/30/09
So true.
People my age (and younger) are taking a lot longer to “settle down” and figure out their lives. There are a lot of good reasons for this, and it always pains me to see someone in their 20s headed down the path someone else paved for them.
Beware of the lives that look too perfect in their 20s. Those are the people who will be a mess in their 30s. And it will be a quarterlife crisis.
Penelope Trunk, How to recognize bad advice about work
05/12/09
As a “closet introvert” who often feels like he’s trying to fake it as an extrovert, I loved this article. It’s a bit tongue-in-cheek, but has some great observations. I honestly didn’t know how few people were introverts. I thought it was more 50/50 rather than 25/75. I also don’t feel as bad knowing the author too needs a couple hours alone to recoup from every hour in highly social situations.
Science has learned a good deal in recent years about the habits and requirements of introverts. It has even learned, by means of brain scans, that introverts process information differently from other people (I am not making this up).
Jonathan Rauch, Caring for Your Introvert
04/16/09
I’m not entirely surprised by this study, but it’s worth noting.
In fact, I’m more surprised that the conventional science (decades of research) claims the opposite: that a group normally overcomes a “bad apple.” To me it’s common sense that a “bad apple” rubs off on other group members.
(via @billcarroll)
Even worse, other team members began to take on the bad apple’s characteristics. When the bad apple was a jerk, other team members would begin acting like a jerk. When he was a slacker, they began to slack, too. And they wouldn’t act this way just in response to the bad apple. They’d act this way to each other, in sort of a spillover effect.
Jeff Atwood, The Bad Apple: Group Poison
04/08/09
We’re All Gonna Die
100 meters of existence.
04/03/09
An ambitious photo project by photographer Simon Høgsberg. He took pictures of pedestrians from the same spot over 20 days and patched them into one longer 100 meter image. Click through to his site for the full experience. Some of the moments he captured are really fun.
Lack of conflict is present on teams where 1) someone isn’t speaking up, 2) the culture/structure doesn’t permit dissension or dialogue, or 3) everyone is in near persistent agreement. All three of these are detrimental to innovation on their own, and absolutely deadly in combination.
Joshua Blankenship, Stop Running from Conflict, It’s Where All the New Lives
01/09/09
Amen.
Who likes working with Downers anyways? Maybe some people do, but not me.
Nick Onken, Attitude is everything, in addition to talent.
11/25/08
A great essay. Well worth the read. People matter. Who you work with and for matters. You’d be amazed what you can do with supportive people around you—and on the flip side, how hard simple tasks can be with the wrong people.
So, as I sit here alone at eight in the morning, my advice to all of you with the power to hire is to find those players of character. They’ll be the ones who stay late to make sure the job isn’t just done, but done right. They’ll be the ones who clean up all the messes you make along the way. They’ll be the ones you miss the most when they’re gone.
Court Crandall, Players of Character
11/12/08
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