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Oct 5

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PLAYBOY: What’s the difference between the people who have insanely great ideas and the people who pull off those insanely great ideas?

JOBS: Let me compare it with IBM. How come the Mac group produced Mac and the people at IBM produced the PCjr? We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build. When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

” The Playboy Interview 1985 (via kevinthau)

May 5

loveitches:

nevver:

How to open a new book

#JustSoYouYouKnow :)

May 2

The Remedy Is a Dose of Apathy: Why I'm not celebrating Bin Laden's Death

doseofapathy:

While conservative media buzzes and complains that Obama gets credit for a project that started under Bush, I am unamused. Who cares? Such bantering between the left and right is not only typical and to be expected, but also indicative of how the stereotype that Americans think we’re better than…

Mar 15

Jul 29

I write like Stephen King

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May 16

(via loveitches)

May 15

seelondon:

Happy Mother’s Day to one rad Mutti! Ich liebe dich.

Feb 4

Reflections of a Newsosaur: Stop the exploitation of journalists

Oct 19

“The Distance to Your Customer Is Nil.” -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

That’s what I told my audience last week at the Inbound Marketing Summit held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. The distance to your customer is nil because the wave of new social technologies — blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. — has made it so easy, even frictionless, for customers to find out about your company, talk about it, and let you know what they think about it. We can fear this revolution, or we can embrace it as a chance to get back to our honorable roots as merchants, creating customers by discovering what they really value and then giving it to them.

How To Throw A Killer TweetUp « The Adventures of Reddsmitty

Have you ever wondered what your Tweeps are like in real life (IRL)? Ever wondered if they really look like their avatars? Why not host a TweetUp! No matter where you live or what you do there are others on Twitter nearby and there’s nothing quite like meeting your favorite Tweeps in real life (IRL). Just ask @RobinWalker or @MisterNoodle…I hugged them when I met them at a TweetUp. Besides hugs you may also find job leads, sales leads, new connections, and folks with whom you can barter entrepreneurial services…I know I did. So what’s stopping you?