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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:33:00 -0400

By jjakecox on April 18

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.

"Like" and I Could Win $1,000

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:31:00 -0400

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

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

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:18:00 -0400

“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.

Photo

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:42:21 -0400

"my advice for anyone trying to succeed on the web is, make the highest-end product you can, and..."

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:30:49 -0400

“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)

Solving the Puzzles of Mimicry

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:01:00 -0400

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

Mandy Patinkin Keeping It Real

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:14:00 -0500

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

Lengthy but Cool Interview

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:22:59 -0500

Marc Andreesen + Alexia Tsotsis.

You and Me -- Penny & The Quarters

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:44:39 -0500

The Five Remembrances by Thich Nhat Hanh

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:37:00 -0500

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.

3 Minute Movie Review -- Silver Linings Playbook

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:10:00 -0500

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.

Video

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:14:28 -0500

Have this song on repeat right now..

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:13:41 -0500

Have this song on repeat right now..

3 Task Management Apps

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:12:40 -0500

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:

North Koreans Confirm Existence of Unicorns

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 21:37:00 -0500

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?

How to Start a Startup // V1

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:36:32 -0500

“How to Start a Startup,” by Paul Graham.

“Startup = Growth,” by Paul Graham.

From somewhere in Mark Cuban’s book, “How to Win” :

The best place to raise money is from your customers.

V1 of my thoughts on the subject.

Innovation * (Feminine Hygiene + Non-Profits)

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:32:00 -0500

And Seth Godin says:

The thing about most cause/welfare non-profits is that they haven’t figured out how to solve the problem they’re working on (yet). Yes, they are often offer effective aid, or a palliative. But no, too many don’t have a method for getting at the root cause of the problem and creating permanent change. That’s because it’s hard (incredibly hard) to solve these problems…

…Go fail. And then fail again. Non-profit failure is too rare, which means that non-profit innovation is too rare as well. Innovators understand that their job is to fail, repeatedly, until they don’t.

Love what Mr. Muruganantham (my fingers mocking me: “type that 5 times fast”) is doing. Solving the problem, seems like he’s willing to risk failure.

Mobile Video: Apps vs. Internet

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:55:15 -0500

Obviously mobile video is huge.

I’m digging around to see what I can learn about “mobile video” — is it going to be bigger in apps or in browsers? And is this even an important distinction? And what should I consider Youtube: app or Internet?

Joe Johnson Doing Work

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:16:27 -0500

This was ridiculous

filadores: What should be played in museums Take a guess...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:25:28 -0500

filadores:

What should be played in museums

Take a guess before you hit “play.”

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"Like" and I Could Win $1,000

"Like" and I Could Win $1,000

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

Photo

"my advice for anyone trying to suc­ceed on the web is, make the highest-end pro­duct you can, and..."

Solving the Puzzles of Mimicry

Mandy Patinkin Keeping It Real

Lengthy but Cool Interview

You and Me -- Penny & The Quarters

The Five Remembrances by Thich Nhat Hanh

3 Minute Movie Review -- Silver Linings Playbook

Video

Have this song on repeat right now..

3 Task Management Apps

North Koreans Confirm Existence of Unicorns

How to Start a Startup // V1

Innovation * (Feminine Hygiene + Non-Profits)

Mobile Video: Apps vs. Internet

Joe Johnson Doing Work

filadores: What should be played in museums Take a guess...

"my advice for anyone trying to succeed on the web is, make the highest-end product you can, and..."