A very businessy Fluffy Links today.
Mixtapes, not dead, the media is different though. How teens discover music.
How easy it is to get a fake story in to the news. With every news org copying from each other, this is textbook media manipulation. Course social media will get blamed for it.
One sheeter summaries of books. Summarist. Only 3 books summarised so far
The Peripheral by William Gibson is on the way.
Wrote this back in 2010. The C words that get engagement.
Big fan of MediaRedef after Jim Carroll recommended it. Here Media/Forward suggests ways it can make money. Hint hint to other online and offline publications. Can an email newsletter make money? Yes it can.
The future from those that are building and investing in areas that will define it. Education really needs to be disrupted. Just in tim training and just in time certification please for business skills, old skool university education to ground us for life. All these college courses dictated by bureaucratic industries doesn’t help at all. Now we have a generation of those that can program in Java and have no idea how a programming language can actually work.
Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s biz partner points out three things that have made them successful over a whole generation of business.
1. Hire good people and trust them.
2. Quickly admit mistakes and scramble out of them.
3. Remove your ignorance by always learning.
8Radio back on air for a few weekends this Summer.
The 12 basic principles of animation from 1930s Walt Disney Studios. Yeah, 1930.
“Many of the ecological principles found in adaptive cycles could also be applied to competitive market environments. ” How markets really do follow the same path as natural ecosystems. The Slidedeck really is awful looking but the content is excellent so persevere.