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Please enjoy an old-ish Peugeot commercial to kick off this week’s Linkness. Like Alec Baldwin (we couldn’t bring ourselves to say “fine wine”), it just gets better with age. Why? Perhaps this is the answer: The best advertising is sincere.
If you only read one thing.
- The problem with TED-thinking. “The idea of our age is that Great Ideas can be simplified, reduced, made into convenient, disposable nuggets of infotainment — be they 18-minute talks, 800-word blog posts, or 140 character bursts. But can they — really?” | Umair Haque
Management.
- The key to being a creative leader? Job security. | 99U
- “When are you going to start your own company?” | Medium
Innovation.
- Existing players in an industry almost always fail to appreciate how disruption will affect them or understand how to adapt to it, Harvard professor Clay Christensen says, and media companies are making all of those same mistakes. | paidcontent.org
- Distributed and destination thinking | Only Dead Fish
- 21 thoughts on lab development | Undercurrent
Data and technology.
- Has digital design become overly obsessed with extroverted behavior? | Design Observer
- The weird thing about Facebook: status updates are the most memorable writing you do | Co.Create
- Researchers conduct ‘autopsy’ of social network Friendster: “changes may cause users to leave, which may trigger further leaves of others who lost connection to their friends. This may lead to cascades of users leaving.” | Wired UK
- How augmented-reality content might actually work: Caterina Fake describes how her startup, Findery, is helping the Internet get local | The Atlantic
Insights.
- The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens | The Verge
- Is Facebook destroying the American college experience? | Danah Boyd
- Wisdom of the dead versus the living: “This is the big drawback of the ‘conversation’ approach to personal development -- it favours the living, with their focus on the here and now, and distracts us from the more enduring observations of those who have passed on” | Helen Edwards in Brand Republic
- Your brain is hooked on being right | Harvard Business Review
On Nextness this week.
- Australia, the great lifestyle superpower. “Nearly six months ago, Australians were explicitly warned to brace for a fall in living standards. It’s not a question of policy or government or arcane economic levers so much as logic. Surely the good times can’t last forever – especially when the rest of the world is feeling the pinch.”
STW Group news.
- Ikon promotes 2 new digital directors | mUmBRELLA
- PRIA announces Kieran Moore as Chair of Awards Committee | Ogilvy Public Relations Australia
- Gillard takes her message straight to the people | Hawker Britton’s Michael Gleeson
- The spectacular fusion of ecommerce and marketing | Brian Vella in Marketing magazine
- Savage counsel -- finding the perfect job | mUmBRELLA