Experiments in Speed
The top 100 predicted potential breakouts did even better with 16 hits, a success rate of 16%, over 500 times better than random chance, and 16 times better than using most YouTube views to select artists.
– Making Next Big Sound: Predicting Next Year’s Breakout Artists
In other words, we can give you a list of 100 artists today and expect over a third of the breakthrough artists next year to come from that list.
Words matter. They are abstractions, too—an interface to thought and understanding by communication. The words we use mold our perception of our work and the world around us. They become a frame, just like the interfaces we design.
Choosing the proper amount of abstraction is tricky, because each user comes to what you’re making with their own amount of experience.
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Certainly this man, such as I have described him, this loner who is gifted with an active imagination, traversing forever the vast desert of men, has a loftier aim than that of a simple idler, an aim more general than the passing pleasure of circumstance. He is looking for what one might be allowed to call modernity; for no better word presents itself to express the idea in question. What concerns him is to release the poetry of fashion from its historical trappings, to draw the eternal out of the transient.
creative geniuses, from artists like Mozart to scientists like Darwin, are quite prolific when it comes to failure—they just don’t let that stop them. His research has found that creative people simply do more experiments. Their ultimate “strokes of genius” don’t come about because they succeed more often than other people—they just do more, period. They take more shots at the goal. That is the surprising, compelling mathematics of innovation: if you want more success, you have to be prepared to shrug off more failure.
A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes it’s fantastic, but what I realized later was there’s technology and there’s people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology. You have to think about people first and technology second. Hopefully technology gets out of the way.
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Amazing through the legs goal by Tomas Hertl for his 4th goal of the night
Santa Monica, CA
