Linkness. What we’ve been reading

The Obamas: they’re just like us! Screencap of them all on their phones during the inauguration via @jaredbkeller.

And now Linkness.

Vision and validation: on how easily people can get ‘stuck in their ways’ – do and believe things based on past experiences, despite the rapidly changing present. | now in colour

Strategy and the uncertainty excuse: “Without making an effort to ‘do strategy,’ a company runs the risk of its numerous daily choices having no coherence to them, of being contradictory across divisions and levels, and of amounting to very little of meaning.” | Harvard Business Review
Why advertising agencies must disrupt themselves (not a new argument but a good list of what the author considers good disruptions underway) | LinkedIn
Secret ingredient for success: “The successful people we spoke with — in business, entertainment, sports and the arts — all had similar responses when faced with obstacles: they subjected themselves to fairly merciless self-examination that prompted reinvention of their goals and the methods by which they endeavored to acheive them.” | NYTimes.com
Corporate hackathons: the fine line between engaging and exploiting | Jamie M Smyth
PR professionals are not ‘yes men’ when pressured to be unethical, study finds | Science Daily

Games vs. School: how effort, status, interaction and hard work differ in self-organising ‘passionate affinity groups’ versus school or work | Medium
“Success is the amount of joy you feel in your life.” | Wrestling Possums
Airbnb and the unstoppable rise of the share economy | Forbes
Reminiscence bump explanations: Why we remember young adulthood better than any other age. | Slate Magazine

You 2.0: “I found it super invigorating to think about the web as this place of freedom, a new realm of possibility. A place that lives and breathes. A place where we can craft our own highly individualistic religions, or curate our own worlds, or expand our creative license. A place where we can invent and reinvent ourselves anew, with as little or as much loyalty to our flesh-and-bones selves as we choose.” | Rookie Mag
Having original ideas in a world of collective thinking | 180360720
Jeffrey Eugenides’s advice to young writers | The New Yorker
Sundance darlings eye alternative distribution platforms: Today’s Sundance Film Festival hits needn’t necessarily make a splash on the big screen (although that’s nice). Video on demand, iTunes and other outlets await. | latimes.com

Linkness. What we’ve been reading | January 25, 2013