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If you only read one thing.
- Stop focusing on shiny gadgets and start using tech to empower people | Wired.com
Management.
- Don’t tell a suffering coworker “it could have been worse” | HBR
- Why I hate funnels | Founder of email service TinyLetter
- A fatal flaw in modern leadership | Wrestling Possums
Innovation.
- Digital is easy. Journalism is easy. Change is hard. Why is the transition to digital going so badly for most journalism companies? | One Man and His Blog
- The Travelling Salesman Problem and what it can tell us about complexity, algorithims, human behaviour and unhappy truckers | Nautilus
Data and technology.
- Lateral thinking with withered technology: “use existing, cheap, well-established technology, and use it in new ways” | ignore the code
Insights.
- “[F]irst we build the stacks, then we understand the patterns, and then we can make some money”: impossible to summarise this wide ranging, punchy piece on the future of the content industries | Matt Locke
- Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business | BBC
- The sad realisation that you’ve stopped reading books | Daily Life
- Memo to the BuzzFeed team from BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti (BuzzFeed is on track to make $60 million in 2013, thanks to advertisers being “entranced by Buzzfeed’s native ad pitch.”)
- From superhero movies to techy sitcoms to captains of industry, geeks have been running the show for years. But now that ‘geek chic’ is in the dictionary, and Topshop is selling ‘dork’ T-shirts, what is the future for nerd culture? | The Guardian
- What was, is and will be popular: the driving forces of pop culture | NYT
- Focus on human behavior, not media and tech trends | Rick Liebling
Creativity.
- The short sentence as gospel truth: “the short sentence proves a reliable method for delivering the practical truth. With punch.” | NYT
On Nextness this week.
- The fight for attention by Ryan Griffin, Digital Account Manager at Switched on Media.
STW Group news.
- Samsung, Baz Luhrman, NIDA and the Opera House are giving young Aussie filmmakers an amazing opportunity via The Conscience Organisation
- STW Invests in Colmar Brunton | LBBOnline
- It was R U OK? Day yesterday. R U OK? Foundation gets the nation travelling far to ask ‘are you ok?’ in a new campaign via Fusion.
- Vodafone Australia set to launch rebranded ‘Discover the New’ campaign via Ogilvy Sydney.
- Modern retail: an omni-channel approach works best | Switched On Media
OMG | cool | wow.
- “We don’t need to work harder to get more money to have more choices because we already made our choice.” The medium chill (revisited)
- Emojify: turn your photos into an emoji collage.
- Wunderlist: a beautiful and simple to-do list.
- Constellations of directors and their stars: a visualisation.
- Dizzee Rascal’s new video is GIF-ready.
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