Anonymous asked: <p>I’m not sure if you have answered this before, but what are you studying in school? It seems like you would be studying something to do with human rights.</p>
I’m in school to be a high school teacher. I was a cultural studies major for three years and I really liked it, but I decided to change directions and perhaps get my masters instead of my undergrad in it.
Bon Iver and St. Vincent | Roslyn
I don’t know how many times I listen to this a day, but it gets better every time I stream through it.
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It’s great to see media companies embracing the Tumblr platform. (One note: how did they leave out The Today Show? It’s one of our favorites.) We couldn’t imagine our online diet without the Tumblr community, and as an IRL non-profit community center…
The sheer amount of noise Muse can make with just three dudes is amazing. I think tomorrow will be a Muse Monday while at work.
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Focus is about saying no.” This quote is perhaps apocryphal but it’s credited to Steve Jobs. It’s not a novel idea. Many companies chant this mantra but do they really understand what focus implies?
Focus is the antithesis of portfolio theory. Portfolio theory is a great concept. Every pedestrian in New York City has experienced it. While the weather is fine, street vendors sell their regular wares, but when a rainstorm appears it seems everyone is selling umbrellas.
The idea that you keep umbrellas in stock seems very prudent. It’s a hedge that people will need a different product under different circumstances. Maintaining a product portfolio is a way of selecting a collection of products that has collectively lower risk than any individual product. The formulation of this even earned its creators the Nobel prize.
But “focus” is the willful rejection of this theory. By saying no to alternatives you increase risk disproportionally to the reward. If you have the means to maintain a portfolio it certainly seems imprudent not to do so.
So why would someone want to focus?
The answer is that too much diversification is dangerous. It’s dilutive to everything the company uses to create value: its resources, its processes and its priorities. It dulls the mind and tarnishes the brand.
So focus is not just saying no. It’s being supremely confident in what you say yes to. It’s having the ability to call the winners and the losers. A company that lives and breathes product gains this confidence. A company that puts markets or profit formulas first never obtains the confidence to focus, inflates its portfolio and thus risks everything.
” Very well articulated piece on the value (and challenge) of focus in product development by Horace Dediu of Asymco (via tgoss)(via abeshafi)
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I am very much looking forward to having traits in PHP. Should make things a lot easier.
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This theme includes:
- An area for your Twitter script
- An area for your Disqus comments script (only add the “Disqus Code for Tumblr”)
- Tags (they’re hidden if you choose not to use them)
- A space for your Flickr photos
- Customizable Colors
Please read the actual coding. I added “tips” within the code to help you out.
Also, If you just copy and paste the theme… make sure you delete the “Google Docs” stuff at the very bottom of the code. It’s after the </html>
If you want to add a neat textured background, check out this site.
This theme was crazily modified from Twittr Inspird by Josh (I got lazy and didn’t want to make one from scratch) If you find any problems… email
Just bought my tickets to Austin, Texas for SXSW - who else will be there? This will be my first SXSW! I get to play with the amazingly smart and playful Glenda Bautista, who invited me to join the Futures 15 line up. Future 15’s are a SXSW curated panel of short…
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