5 Ingredients Required to Create a Blog Schedule That Works

love thinking about being organized. more than i am organized anyway.

The Unexotic Underclass

by CZ Naemeka “In short, they contend that too many brains and dollars have been shoveled into resolving what I call ‘anti-problems’ – interests usually centered about food or fashion or ‘social’or gaming.”

(via Tilt Stool | MoMA Store) Love the way you can be supported but still move.

So herewith, derived from interviews for my forthcoming book, A More Beautiful Question, are thoughts from a couple of top CEOs (Panera Bread’s Ron Shaich and Patagonia’s Casey Sheahan) and a trio of leading business thinkers/consultants (the Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen, Peer Insight’s Tim Ogilvie, and SY Partners’ Keith Yamashita). The following five “mission questions” are designed to keep a business focused on what matters most.

— Forget The Mission Statement. What’s Your Mission Question? | Co.Design: business innovation design

Bobby Berk Home East meets West

patterns

When an entitled person encounters obstacles to achieving an outcome, they feel like they shouldn’t have to work for it,” Jamin says. “In fact, you should see a challenge as evidence that you need to work harder.

— Australian study confirms that entitlement is the enemy of excellence. Pair with the psychology of how to prevent such entitlement when raising children. (via explore-blog)

You should care because the unexotic underclass can help address one of the biggest inefficiencies plaguing the startup scene right now: the flood of (ostensibly) smart, ambitious young people desperate to be entrepreneurs; and the embarrassingly idea-starved landscape where too many smart people are chasing too many dumb ideas, because they have none of their own (or, because they suspect no one will invest in what they really want to do). The unexotic underclass has big problems, maybe not the Big Problems – capital B, capital P – that get ‘discussed’ at Davos. But they have problems nonetheless, and where there are problems, there are markets.

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There are only so many suit customisation, makeup sampling, music streaming, social eating, discount shopping, experience curating companies that the market can bear. If you’re itching to start something new, why chase the n-th iteration of a company already serving the young, privileged, liberal jetsetter? If you’re an investor, why revisit the same space as everyone else? There is life, believe me, outside of NY, Cambridge, Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, L.A. and San Fran.

— Despite its questionable parenthetical insinuation that STEM funding goes mainly towards the development of inane apps and its use of the word “wantrepreneur,” this article by MIT’s C.Z. Nnaemeka on “the unexotic underclass” makes some good points about innovating in the middle. (via explore-blog)

explore-blog:

The great Stephen Jay Gould, whom we lost 11 years ago this week and who has done more for the popular understanding of science than anyone since Carl Sagan, on the secret of what people call his genius.

The Seven Elements of a Creative Personality

Forget Myers-Briggs. A study out of BI Norwegian Business School has determined the signposts of a “creative” personality. There are seven of them, so if you’re thinking about quitting your job as a lawyer or stock analyst to go on tour with your band or finally write that novel, you might want to consider the list below.

safari-black:

AFRICAN TEXTILES

tirivamwe:

Taslim Martin’s Kente stool is my evening inspiration as i do some African inspired textile research. Picturing it in my home.

umstampsschool:

Loving the new tumblr from the print studios!

printstamps:

From teaching archives at Print@Stamps: Anna Henrickson

A wall of rabbits and some more rabbits by Anna Henrickson, class of 2011, Stamps alumina, artist and designer now living and working in New Orleans

love this - so fun and lively.

The New Yorker’s Endorsement of Barack Obama : The New Yorker

another example of a stellar woman at the top. don’t think obama needed to search far and wide for the super women in his administration because they’re at the top in the democratic party.

beautiful.

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