Tagg: ymse 217

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/

How leaders lose mental capacities—most notably for reading other people—that were essential to their rise

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-15/how-helsinki-arrived-at-the-future-of-urban-travel-first

A homegrown app called Whim turns the act of getting around a city—by bus, train, bike, taxi or borrowed car—into a monthly subscription.

/via The Browser

http://roadstorome.moovellab.com

Movel lab:

There is a saying that all roads lead to Rome. We set out on 3.375.746 journeys to check if that was really true.

/via Scientific American

http://www.inma.no/ARTIKLER/Alle-artikler/Jostein-Magnussen-best-pa-atte-minutter

Torsdag 3. desember holdt INMA 8 Minutes of Digital Marketing-konferansen i Saga kino, hvor samtlige av de 35 inviterte speakerne ble bedt om å holde seg til åtte minutter. Av dem alle var det Jostein Magnussen i Netlife Research som ble kåret til den beste av publikum. På sine tilmålte minutter tok han et oppgjør med alle de nye begrepene som har sneket seg inn i markedsføringsbransjen.

Over the span of a month, Adam designed and built an accurate replica of the hedge maze architectural model from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The maze model, as seen in The Overlook Hotel, is only seen briefly, but reference screenshots from throughout the film allowed Adam to painstakingly recreate it. The project ended up as one of Adam’s more labor-intensive builds in recent memory!

Lisens: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/common-mythconceptions-worlds-most-contagious-falsehoods/

“Most contagious falsehoods” frå Information is Beautifull

Jerry Seinfeld får ein pris frå reklamebransjen, og nyttar høvet til å sei kva han meiner om dei.

I love advertising because I love lying…

… I think spending your life trying to dupe innocent people out of hard won earnings to buy useless, low quality, misrepresented items and services is an excellent use of your energy.

/via kotke.org