January 2010
4 posts
This is why it's worth learning about advertising
rinich:
A lot of people are asking what Apple’s target market is, and how they’re going to sell this iPad. These people are all stupid. Apple has told us exactly how they’re going to sell it.
From Apple.com:
Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.
Bam! That’s their selling point! Somebody gets paid lots of money to write that sentence, and...
I accidentally adopt mantras, phrases I repeat over and over again that push me forward through whatever tasks I need to get on with. The first year I ran the music festival, it was ‘It’s all going to be fine.’ I must have said that 8000 times in August 2007. Last year, in the months leading up to the festival, it was ‘Easiest festival ever.’ It worked out well; it...
Is Tumblarity… gone?!
Ah„ that’s nice.
The Myths about Mr. and Mrs. →
“Men’s and women’s brains really are not the same, neuroscientist Lise Eliot argues—but most of those differences are learned, not inborn…
In her new book, Pink Brain Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It, Eliot dispels many myths about male and female brain development. “In parenting literature, there’s a lot of stuff that’s made...