Month: April 2014
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First Principles Thinking
This piece by Noah Brier on first principles thinking really struck a chord when I read it and has been going round in my head ever since. Noah quotes from Elon Musk, who draws a distinction between the common use of analogy […]
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Performance Firestarters 5: Data – The Event
//instagram.com/p/nLneboIuF4 Thursday evening saw the fifth in our spin off series of Google Firestarters events for the search and performance marketing community, on the theme of data. It’s been eight years or so since Clive Humby (co-founder of DunHumby) first compared data to […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: I really like the look of Bossy (above and below). Bossy is a project from design student Lucas Neumann. A wonderfully thought through and lovely looking productivity device that connects to your calendars, apps and to […]
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Don’t F**k Up The Culture
I loved this story from AirBnB co-founder Brian Chesky about the importance of organisational culture. He describes a visit from Peter Thiel just after they'd closed their Series C funding round in 2012 in which Thiel invested $150m in the fledgling business. […]
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Keeping Up Appearances
"I think there's a general principle at work here: the less energy people expend on performance, the more they expend on appearances to compensate. More often than not the energy they expend on seeming impressive makes their actual performance worse. A few […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: Redefining handmade, redefining manufacturing, redefining Etsy. A really interesting piece about Etsy's fork in the road, and how it's dealing with the issues that come with scale An unexpected but interesting history of […]
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Performance Firestarters 5: Data
You'll know by now that we have a spin-off series of Google Firestarters events that I also curate and that are specifically designed for the performance and search marketing community (we've looked at mobile, future of search, attribution and so on). We […]
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The Best Way to Organise Your Business Communications is not to Organise Them At All
Thanks to this Quartz piece for that rather lovely headline. Mentioned in that piece is Slack, an interesting looking chat app that is touted by some as a more efficient way for teams to communicate internally and which is apparently growing rapidly in popularity since its launch […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: Handy – a concise compendium of Don Draper's creative advice A good piece on analytics and the art of storytelling Now this is a good idea - a hospital door handle that sanitises hands with a touch A whole […]
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iDoneThis
Reading some more around the organisational culture at Buffer, I came across iDoneThis. It's a simple productivity app that (as you can see above) sends staff a reminder email each evening asking what they did that day. The next day, staff get […]