From German photographer Paul Schneggenburger’s photo series on what couples look like as they sleep.
And now, what we enjoyed reading this week.
If you only read one thing.
- Stop chasing followers | Jeffrey Zeldman
Management.
- Don’t let strategy become planning: “most people see strategy as an exercise in producing a planning document” | Harvard Business Review
- Invisible or inspired? Good project managers are essential to the masterpieces they help create. | Cognition
- The “No Update” update: the importance of showing people you’re “on it” | Eric Friedman
- Speak with candour | Wrestling Possums
Innovation.
- Venture Capital’s massive, terrible idea for the future of college | The Awl
Technology.
- Most Facebook users have taken a break from the site, Pew survey finds | NYTimes.com
- How Etsy grew their number of female engineers by almost 500% in one year | First round
Insights.
- On being not dead | NYTimes.com
- Why those annoying “brand as shape” charts don’t work. “Dividing the ‘emotional’ and ‘functional’ dimensions of a brand into separate boxes fundamentally misrepresents how human beings think and make sense of the world. Including brands.” | canalside view
- The world is getting better. Quickly. | Anil Dash
Creativity.
- Documentaries turning to writers to shape narrative | latimes.com
- How to stay sane | Brain Pickings
- Get to the good part: in praise of shortened attention spans | WSJ.com
On Nextness this week.
STW Group news.
- Customer focused innovation with utility apps | the white agency