"You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do"
Henry Ford (via teaim)
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I just ordered a ladle from amazon.
I looked at a few different ladles.
And started reading ladle reviews.
Actual reviews that real people wrote about ladles.
And thats when I realized the internet really has changed everything.
And then I stopped reading the reviews and just ordered the least expensive ladle.
Because what the hell is wrong with me that I am reading ladle reviews?
"Abtin Forouzandeh via deplorableword
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About 60% of the people stopped when we had 24 jams on display, and then at the times when we had 6 different flavors of jam out on display only 40% of the people actually stopped, so more people were clearly attracted to the larger varieties of options, but then when it came down to buying, so the second thing we looked at is in what case were people more likely to buy a jar of jam.
What we found was that of the people who stopped when there were 24 different flavors of jam out on display only 3% of them actually bought a jar of jam, whereas of the people who stopped when there were 6 different flavors of jam 30% of them actually bought a jar of jam. So, if you do the math, people were actually 6 times more likely to buy a jar of jam if they had encountered 6 than if they encountered 24, so what we learned from this study was that while people were more attracted to having more options, that’s what sort of got them in the door or got them to think about jam, when it came to choosing time they were actually less likely to make a choice if they had more to choose from than if they had fewer to choose from.
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To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Explanation:
AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20
NO EXECUTION = $1
WEAK EXECUTION = $1000
SO-SO- EXECUTION = $10,000
GOOD EXECUTION = $100,000
GREAT EXECUTION = $1,000,000
BRILLIANT EXECUTION = $10,000,000
To make a business, you need to multiply the two.
The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.
That’s why I don’t want to hear people’s ideas.
I’m not interested until I see their execution.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke (reminded by @jakegrimley)
"In Holland, we have two words for design. One is vormgeving; in German formgeben. And the other word is ontwerpen; in German entwurf. In the Anglo-Saxon language there’s only one word for design, which is design. That is something you should work out. Vormgeving is more to make things look nice. So for instance, packaging for a perfume or for chocolate in order to make things fashionable, obsolete and therefore bad for society because we don’t really need it. While ontwerpe means, and the Anglo-saxon word, but its stronger, means engineering. That means you as a person try to invent a new thing—which is intelligent, which is clever, and which will have a long-life. And that’s called stylistic durability. It means you can use it for a long time."
Gert Dumbar
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
George Bernard Shaw
"A new generation, one that grew up with a data surplus, is coming along. To this cohort, it’s no big deal to miss a tweet or ten, to delete a blog from your reader or to not return a text or even a voice mail. The new standard for a vacation email is, ‘When I get back, I’m going to delete all the email in my box, so if it’s important, please re-send it next week.’ This is what always happens when something goes from scarce to surplus. First we bathe in it, then we waste it."
Seth Godin - The Shower of Data (via deplorableword)
(Source: kirklove, via deplorableword)
"Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."
Tim Vine
"No pressure,
no diamonds."
Thomas Carlyle
"If you have a baby and you don’t teach it to say “Help! They’ve turned me into a baby!”, you’re wasting everyone’s time."
"In France, a ‘Jacuzzi’ is the special bath you sit someone in, when you want to hold them accountable for something."
Gareth Aveyard - @GarethAveyard
"For those of you under the age of 25, a magazine is a blog made out of trees"
How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple Fanboy | Cult of Mac
"I don’t believe in god because I’ve thought about it."
Sean Lock
