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Alan Watts: What would you do if money was no object? (Video via Swiss Miss.) Welcome to Linkness, and our favourite business and creativity reads this week.
If you only read one thing.
- Fund me, I’m useless: the false promise of Kickstarter (but then, if you have time for two things, follow it with this Kickstarter employee’s passionate and from-the-gut defence).
Management.
- Support your team quietly: people get more out of compassion when they don’t know they’re getting it | Harvard Business Review
- “Skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” | Wrestling Possums
- How to get a digital agency job | Digiday
Technology.
- Having a mobile strategy is like having a ‘laptop’ strategy 20 years ago | DigitalNext
- The best interface is no interface | Cooper Journal
Insights.
- The delusion and illusion that makes us buy: planning isn’t just about understanding society’s reality, it’s also about understanding the reality of their fantasy. | The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod
- The decline of fascination and the rise in ennui | Seth’s Blog
- This is your brain on freestyle rap | Discovery News
Creativity.
- 3 ways to improve your creative critique using conflict communication | Publishing Crawl
- Getting Unstuck: Writers’ thoughts on writer’s block | Rookie
- Damien Hirst (“an artist whose great subject is the commercialization of his own genius”): Jumping the shark | Businessweek
- ‘Lost,’ among the most thrilling, surprising, memorable dramas in the history of American network television, was thrown together in a rush and “snakebit by top-level turnover”. This is its unlikely story | Grantland
- On knowing when you’re finished | cellar door
STW Group news.
- Wow! IKON is on BRW’s list of Most Innovative Companies!
- Ogilvy Australia resurrects national creative chief role as Steve Back returns home.
- KFC Madden Brothers campaign.
- Moon wins Rosemount account after pitch.
- Moon won SO many AGDA Design Biennale Awards!
- Both DTDigital (digital) and Ogilvy Sydney (creative) shortlisted for the Campaign Asia agency of the year awards.
- Article by DT’s David Trewern in The Australian.
- Following a period of significant agency growth, DTDigital has been appointed as digital agency for Trafalgar.