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"Like" and I Could Win $1,000

I’m using the app Lightt (www.lightt.com) for the stop-motion effect and an Ollo Clip (www.olloclip.com) for the fish eye look. 

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“Like” and I Could Win $1,000


The opportunity to “Like” is here: http://lightt.com/jjakecox/s/CFg5m-qF0R4qQpIgAKH74y?awesm=ligh.tt_b073

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The Service-Profit Chain (aka Over-Invest in Customer Experience by Over-Investing in Employee Experience)

Profit and growth are stimulated primarily by customer loyalty. Loyalty is a direct result of customer satisfaction. Satisfaction is largely influenced by the value of services provided to customers. Value is created by satisfied, loyal, and productive employees.”

 via HBR.

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my advice for anyone trying to suc­ceed on the web is, make the highest-end pro­duct you can, and then tar­get the tiny hand­ful of peo­ple– the mic­roau­dience- who are likely to buy it. For­get the mas­ses. Tar­ge­ting the lat­ter is too much like trying to win the lot­tery– though great when it hap­pens (howe­ver unli­kely), there are just too many damn varia­bles outside your control.

Hugh MacLeod (via om)

2 months ago 9 notes startups

Solving the Puzzles of Mimicry

…The key to any advance is to be able “to explain the complex visible by some simple invisible.”

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2 months ago

Mandy Patinkin Keeping It Real

The Colbert Report
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“…I would die talking before I lifted a weapon…”

3 months ago 1 note

Lengthy but Cool Interview

Marc Andreesen + Alexia Tsotsis.

3 months ago

You and Me — Penny & The Quarters

4 months ago

The Five Remembrances by Thich Nhat Hanh

1) I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.

2) I am of the nature to have ill health. There is no way to escape ill health.

3) I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death.
4) All that is dear to me and everyone I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.
5) My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground upon which I stand.

4 months ago Thich Nhat Hanh

3 Minute Movie Review — Silver Linings Playbook

Bradley Cooper is magnetic. He plays Pat. Pat with bipolar disorder who caught his wife Nikki having shower sex with a tenured colleague at the school where they are both teachers, and beat him silly. The dude said, “You should probably leave,” when Pat walked in on them. Total douche. 

Pat gets out of the looney bin and decides to commit himself to winning Nikki back. Bad idea. Reads all the books on her syllabus. Hates “The Old Man and the Sea.” Thinks Hemingway is an a-hole. Meets Tiffany at a dinner with his best bud Ronnie and her wife, the girl from “Save the Last Dance.” What’s her name again? She’s Nikki’s best friend. 

Tiffany is recently widowed, and she’s young and pretty and has a history of being a slut, which she’s fine with now, because it’s part of who she is and who she has been, and she’s learned to love all of herself, and to forgive herself and the world for things. Her husband got hit by a car and died. 

Tiffany convinces Pat to enter a dance contest with her. They practice in her studio. (They both live at home with their parents, except Tiffany lives in a detached renovated garage out back.) They learn to move off one another, and their chemistry is believable and true and lovely.

Robert de Niro is Pat’s dad. Gambling addict. Runs a sports book to earn money so he can open up a restaurant. The whole movie is a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan — and it’s perfect. The grit stuff, the faith stuff, the city of brotherly love stuff..

God, the whole thing fits together so perfectly..

Happy ending, but I won’t spoil it. Bradley Cooper’s best film. Chris Tucker’s in it. Chris Tucker? Ya. 

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5 months ago crazy stupid love

Have this song on repeat right now..

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3 Task Management Apps

Not sure which of these would be most helpful for a social media consulting co. with a few clients and a distributed team. Interesting (but maybe not surprising) that task management has blossomed into a super competitive space. 

Asana:

Sandglaz:

Smartsheet:

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North Koreans Confirm Existence of Unicorns

From TIME

Obviously unicorns don’t actually exist. I don’t totally know how to feel about this. I feel:

- that this is hilarious

- that it’s strange to find something so laughable when there are 25 million people being fed this as fact, and they probably (well, possibly) don’t know how laughable it is

- sorta scared for the world

- really pissed off at supreme leaders and propaganda machines 

- that there must be an analogous situation in my life, where some perceived authority is feeding me “facts,” which, to somebody with a better perspective, are completely laughable. What’s my North Korea blindspot?

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