Archive for September, 2014

Fluffy Links – Monday September 22nd 2014

Monday, September 22nd, 2014

Finally a listicle that’s original and interesting. Ben’s 30 at 30.

You need balls to get gender balance. The LadSummit is still the LadSummit.

I like this technique from Amazon, they wrote a “test” press release when considering buying Twitch so they could explain to the world why they were doing it and that helped them explain to themselves why it would be good or bad.

OpenCo. I like this. It’s like Culture Night but for businesses. Open your doors and host a talk or and event.

Value is created by DOING.

Shane Parrish has read and summarised Peter Thiel’s new book. Very interesting insights from the billionaire investor.

Charle Munger, investment genius and nice guy. Shares wisdom.

I read this bio on Tony Fadell from Nest and I think he’s going over the top to be like Steve Jobs in the interview with his always wanting to redesign the world. Seriously? Complaining about the CCTV cameras in your house in the interview. Channeling Run Burgundy more than Steve jobs. Kind of a big deal.

Karl Lagerfeld quotes. Ubercoolkarl.

Favourite books by some CEOs. Atlas Shrugged a Bible for an Oil CEO. Course.

Sinkane – Mean Love (Full album)

The wisdom of Charlie Munger

Saturday, September 20th, 2014






From here.

12 lines from Munger is worth more than 5 of your business books, Horatio.

There isn’t one novel thought in all of how Berkshire is run. It’s all about what [Mr. Munger’s friend] Peter [Kaufman] calls ‘exploiting unrecognized simplicities.’ We [Messrs. Buffett and Munger, their shareholders and the companies they have acquired] have selected one another. It’s a community of like-minded people, and that makes most decisions into no-brainers. Warren and I aren’t prodigies. We can’t play chess blindfolded or be concert pianists. But the results are prodigious, because we have a temperamental advantage that more than compensates for a lack of IQ points.

Nobody has a zero incidence of bad news coming to them too late, but that’s really low at Berkshire. Warren likes to say, ‘Just tell us the bad news, the good news can wait.’ So people trust us in that, and that helps prevent mistakes from escalating into disasters. When you’re not managing for quarterly earnings and you’re managing only for the long pull, you don’t give a damn what the next quarter’s earnings look like.

Fluffy Links – Monday September 15th 2014 – 100 days until Christmas

Monday, September 15th, 2014

It’s for charity yeah, you do realise that if you want some business to help your charity, it can cost them a lot? A guide on how best to “pitch” your charity to a business.

How to own it on Instagram, a guide. TLDR; – Go niche, one picture a day, pose, edit, network.

Social Media for Business – Cork City, October 28th.

4 week, 8 module digital marketing course with Cork Chamber. Cost is same as some training orgs charge per day.

Measurement.ie slide decks.

When I read idiotic tech opinions in the Irish Times, I should hold the same standard to the rest of the paper. Why don’t I? The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

Infinity apps. This guy spent a year working with a “distraction free” iPhone. – Removed mail and browser and so used it for calls, texts and music. Maybe he could have bought the original iPhone? Still, it will make your life calmer.

The Late Late Toy Show is on November 28th 2014. Tickets for it can be applied for online from October 10th.

Ben Thompson rightfully asks where the “Why the Apple Watch?” bit never happened at the keynote when previous big launches always had the “Why is this needed?”.

Culture night 2014 is this Friday. Here’s what’s happening in Cork.

How to get yourself into eating healthy food.

This site tracks utterances of homophobic language on Twitter. There’s a lot of it. Sister services for racist, sexist and anti-traveler tweets would make interesting and saddening projects.

J1 connect. Thursday September 25th. U.S. Embassy doing an event for J1 alumni who are interested in working, studying or setting up business in America.

Go the fuck to sleep, Werner Hertzog edition:

Doesn’t need to be Christmas for unicorns

Fluffy Links – Monday September 1st 2014

Monday, September 1st, 2014

So yes, I’m now playing around with Christmas.ie and hope to get some content on it soon.

The Maker’s Manual explores how everyone from do-it-yourselfers and artists to inventors and entrepreneurs are leveraging new tools, platforms and services to take their ideas from concepts to reality.

The Bunreacht app by @nathanshox is back and updated Get your copy now legal eagles and freemen of the land .

Teens: “Half the time I don’t really buy any brands. I just bought a pair of fake Doc Martens because I don’t really care.” But high end tech gear like Beats and Iphones, all over them

Legal risks for media outlets using user generate content. From the BBC Journo school blog. Again. Super stuff.

The V+A have an upcoming digital design weekend. Would love to go.

They use the phrase “potty mouth” so I have no respect for these fucking clowns.

MSN Messenger is shutting down. Should we have a wake?

Disney Drones coming to a key near you. Dumbo will be the first one? Then Buzz Lightyear?

What’s especially interesting about this long-brewing rivalry, is how differently Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks have approached the act of marketing themselves. The two companies own around 60% of the country’s coffee market–with Starbucks controlling an estimated 36% and DD roughly 24%.

Coffee bigger than donuts.

An interesting one for the Apple origin story. Seems they didn’t rip off Xerox, Xerox gave them all the stuff they were working on in return for a deeply discounted amount of Apple stock. I wonder when they sold that stock?