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I do think about the rhythm, often before beginning a passage. Is it blues? Chamber music? Bebop? Or mambo? I don’t do this mechanically, but I want to hear some of the words before I put them down. I always try to write sentences that end in hard words, so that I don’t even need a period. This is obviously a lesson from poetry. For instance, ‘I hit him with a rock’ is better than ‘I threw a rock at him.’

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Products can introduce more complexity over time, but as far as launching and introducing a new product in to the market, it’s a marketing problem,” Systrom tells Fast Company. “You have to explain everything you do, and people have to understand it, within seconds.

“When you’re introducing a mobile app, you look around and say, we could be doing 15 different things, but how do we communicate to someone why they would want to download and even sign up for this thing?” Systrom says. “In the mobile context, you need to explain what you do in 30 seconds or less because people move on to the next shiny object. There are so many apps and people are vying for your attention on the go. It’s the one context in which you’ve got lots and lots of other stuff going on. You’re not sitting in front of a computer; you’re at a bus stop or in a meeting.”

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In the West, you have bigger homes, yet smaller families; you have endless conveniences — yet you never seem to have any time. You can travel anywhere in the world, yet you don’t bother to cross the road to meet your neighbours.

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Today, new teachers remain in our profession an average of just 4.5 years, and many of them list “issues with parents” as one of their reasons for throwing in the towel. Word is spreading, and the more negativity teachers receive from parents, the harder it becomes to recruit the best and the brightest out of colleges.

4.5 years? That’s – nothing.

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When you’re hiring, seek out people who are managers of one.

What’s that mean? A manager of one is someone who comes up with their own goals and executes them. They don’t need heavy direction. They don’t need daily check-ins. They do what a manager would do — set the tone, assign items, determine what needs to get done, etc. — but they do it by themselves and for themselves.

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The right tool, learned deeply, used when appropriate, no matter how basic, can beat the pants off of “features” any day. Because it isn’t about the tool, or the feature, it is about your ability to use it to achieve the goal at hand. The better you know the tools you have, the less likely you are to seek out re­placements for them.

— Patrick Rhone

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We all have lots of ideas, creations, and projects. When you present one to the world, and it’s not at hit, don’t keep pushing it as-is. Instead, get back to improving and inventing.

Present each new idea or imporvement to the world. If multiple people are saying, “Wow! Yes I need this! I’d be happy to pay you to do this!” then you should probably do it. But if the response is anything less, don’t pursue it.

Today on Google you’ll find more than just a list of links to websites. You’ll find Quick Answers at the top of the page for a wide variety of topics, including flight times, sports scores, weather and dozens more.

Will Google dorthin, wo Siri schon ist? Oder ist Siri überhaupt dort, wo Google hinmöchte? Ich weiß es nicht, aber das Video ist interessant. 6:21 voller Gedanken von Menschen, die Deine beliebte Suchmaschine programmiert haben.

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

— Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, author, designer and inventor.

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Der Schreibgerätehersteller Montblanc hat einen Filmwettbewerb der etwas anderen Art ausgerufen: Für The Beauty of a Second können Hobbyfilmer und Internetnutzer Clips hochladen, die nicht länger als eine Sekunde dauern dürfen. In insgesamt drei Runden werden die jeweils besten Momente von Regisseur Wim Wenders ausgesucht und zum Abschluss in einen einminütigen Film zusammengeschnitten.

Kurz und sehenswert.

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