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Naturally this Linkness must lead with LOLgilvy Melbourne’s Rhonda and Ketut remix for AAMI <3 (FYI: Bali is in love with Rhonda and Ketut!) And here are the articles we liked this week.
If you only read one thing.
- Christmas, comparisons, media and mental health: thoughts on having a more realistic Christmas this year. “The Christmas season is a time when even people who don’t suffer from depression usually are much more at risk of the negative spiral that can be triggered by making comparisons.” | @fostress writes
Management.
- Never lie about who you really are: a gay entrepreneur argues that everyone should be well-versed in “coming out” | Harvard Business Review
- Related to the above: Having a core | Andy Swan
- Programming your culture: “When you start implementing your culture, keep in mind that most of what will be retrospectively referred to as your company’s culture will not be designed in, but will evolve over time based on the behavior of you and your early employees. As a result, you will want to focus on a small number of cultural design points that will influence a large number of behaviors over a long period of time.” | ben’s blog
- Don’t get stuck as someone else’s second-in-command | Harvard Business Review
Innovation.
- The five most disruptive technologies of 2012: Controlling computers without touching them. Fusing the real and the virtual. The world’s most cost-effective energy storage. The end of cars as we know them. Five billion people with internet access. | Quartz
Technology.
- The web we lost: “We’ve lost key features that we used to rely on, and worse, we’ve abandoned core values that used to be fundamental to the web world.” | Anil Dash
Insights.
- What science says about gun control and violent crime: “If we want to hash this out in the political and socio/cultural sphere, we’re going to have to stop vilifying the people who disagree with us and start trying to talk about how we can all solve the problems we want to solve while remaining true to our own values.” | Boing Boing
- The power of concentration | NYTimes.com
Creativity.
- Does Twitter kill TV comedy? Writers from “The Daily Show,” “SNL,” “Fallon” and others sound off | Co.Create
- Agency names: “things give names meaning, not the other way round. So spend a billionth of a second on the name and the rest of the time on making great work. That way your name will be cool, whatever it is.” | If This Is A Blog Then What’s Christmas?
On Nextness this week.
- We revealed the year’s most clicked posts.
Have a safe and happy Christmas!