Bruce Mau Design Incomplete Manifesto for Growth — “Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements exemplifying Bruce Mau’s beliefs, strategies and motivations. Collectively, they are how we approach every project.” I dig. Hat tip: Noel.
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Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans — “During a recent visit to Wharton as part of The Goldstone Forum, he spoke with Wharton finance professor Richard Herring — who taught Taleb when he was a Wharton MBA student — about events in the Middle East, the oil supply, investing in options, the U.S. economy, the dollar, health care and of course, black swans.”
Ricardo Semler on Leading by Omission, a good weekend watch.
Douglas Van Bossuyt says What VaultPress means to me.
At dinner the other night Om snapped a picture of Ev and I chatting, probably about snow.
Scott Berkun writes a delightful essay on How is WordPress.com made?.
Adam Gopnik writes How the Internet Gets Inside Us. “[This complaint] is identical to Baudelaire’s perception about modern Paris in 1855, or Walter Benjamin’s about Berlin in 1930, or Marshall McLuhan’s in the face of three-channel television (and Canadian television, at that) in 1965.” Hat tip: John Battelle’s Signal.
WordCamp Indonesia proudly presents the first WordPress Board Game. I gotta try this.
Over on ThemeShaper I share Premium Themes on WP.com, the backstory, which also links to all of the coverage from our announcement today.
Scoble muses on “Why I was wrong about Quora as a blogging service”.
Z-Type is a game that helps you practice typing. Fantastic to play when you’re switching to Dvorak. Hat tip: Lloyd.
Some good news today, TripIt is joining up with Concur. I’m excited about this because I travel all the time and I’m curious to see the TripIt approach and team working in the space with a larger team and more resources. 🙂
Rich Brooks on Fast Company asks What’s the Best Blog Platform?. That’s an easy one to answer. There’s still some disagreement over “What’s the best CMS?” but we’re trying to make that one easy to answer, too.
40% of the tasks in Mechanical Turk are getting people to spam. Amazon should take a hard stance against these, as soon as possible.