Based on a true story
This is an ongoing series of geographic prints. I’ve been wanting to do a series with a digi-watercolor style for awhile as well as doing something that involved countries. The two parts seemed to go hand in hand very good, and melded into a nice minimalistic abstract designs.
I picked the USA one, but there are more here.
Scott Adams shares the one goal he focuses on that serves the multiple priorities in his life.
The way I approach the problem of multiple priorities is by focusing on just one main goal: energy. I make choices that maximize my personal energy because that makes it easier to manage all of the other priorities. Maximizing my personal energy means eating right, exercising, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep, and all of the obvious steps. But it also means having something in my life that makes me excited to wake up. When I get my personal energy right, the quality of my work is better, and I can complete it faster. That keeps my career on track. And when all of that is working, and I feel relaxed and energetic, my personal life is better too.
Besides the obvious one (energy) what singular goal could keep competing priorities in order?
The universe is big. Scroll in to the smallest particle and out to the observable universe.
Bobby Neel Adams spliced together photos of six individuals from when they were children and adults to make these interesting Age-Maps.
Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, spoke to Stephen Hackett of 512pixles about why he chooses text as his medium of choice.
Text is an amazingly versatile medium. Relative to other media, text has very low production costs, both in authorship and distribution. One person can produce a great essay or even a complete book. It’s much harder to be a one-person filmmaker. And since text as a medium does not have a fixed timescale like audio and video, it can be easily skimmed or read at any desired speed. In the digital world, text becomes even more useful. It takes up almost no space by today’s standards, it can be easily indexed and analyzed, and tools like mine can edit, restructure, and reflow it to do all sorts of different things. The ease of producing, distributing, and messing around with text has resulted in an effectively infinite supply of great expression, information, and entertainment being written and read in this wonderful medium. Whatever you want to read, there’s already more of it than you could read in a lifetime, and there’s probably more being produced right now.
And this is why I love reading on my Kindle via Instapaper and Klip.me. It’s great for reading text…and not much else, which means I can focus on reading without distractions.
This Venn Diagram from New York Magazine shows an incredible amount of overlap in the titles and themes of various reality show.
Here’s the big version.
Afghanistan – touch down in flight by Augustin Pictures
As each of us has his own impression of Afghanistan that is predominantly marked with pictures of foreign forces, explosions and terror, we were privileged to have access to capture daily life and portrait some people of Afghanistan.
Be sure to watch it in full screen.
If there’s no good reason to use the feature, why have the feature?
(by Jason Robb)
Rand Fishkin from Moz and Dharmesh Shah from HubSpot launched a Hacker News like site for marketers, Inbound.org.
I hope the community and content quality of this site is up to the standards of it muse.
