Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
Coffee break
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
Stephen Wright
Author: coffeehousejunkie
Field notes
watched the nightmare before christmas & strange brew while wrapping gifts… ‘there wasn’t much to do. all the bowling alleys had been wrecked…’ to quote bob mckenzie…
Field notes
imho, wcqs has the best holiday programing on the radio… listening to ‘festival of nine lessons and carols’…
mid-atlantic blizzard of december ‘09
another photo from our end of the mid-atlantic blizzard of december ‘09… it’s still snowing… expecting another foot of snow by sundown…
mid-atlantic blizzard
photo from our end of the mid-atlantic blizzard of december ‘09
Coffee grounds
i’m orange peels. i’m coffee grounds. i’m wisdom.
Marjory The Trash Heap, Fraggle Rock, Season 1, Episode 1
i’m snowed in
a “bitterly agreed upon climate accord in copenhagen” is inked as a way to keep “temperatures from rising by more than 2 degrees celsius” & i’m snowed in (over 12 inches & it’s still coming down… expecting 24 inches by nightfall) from a blizzard. almost two years ago i mentioned another ironic event & i’ve come to a completely non-scientific conclusion based on a conspiracy theory: any time al gore goes to copenhagen the u.s.a. experiences a mini ice age.
Three Keys to Effective Execution
Why can even the most brilliant strategies founder in the implementation phase? “When things haven’t gone as planned, it’s often because the process wasn’t well defined, we missed a step, or we didn’t follow a specific sequence,” says Gordon Woodfall, former president and general manager of Waltham, Mass.-based Thermo KeyTek (now Thermo Fisher Scientific). The execution phase forces you to translate your broad-brush conceptual understanding of your company’s strategy into an intimate familiarity with how it will all happen: who will take on which tasks in what sequence, how long those tasks will take, how much they’ll cost, and how they’ll affect subsequent activities.
Here are three recommendations to help you make this translation.
1. Communicate the key points
2. Develop tracking systems that facilitate problem solving
3. Set up formal reviews
More here http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/hmu/2008/02/three-keys-to-effective-execut.php
Social Media Marketing Report
According to a social media study by Michael Stelzner, sponsored by the upcoming Social Media Success Summit 2009, 88% of marketers are now using social media in some form and 72% have begun within the last few months.
Key findings from the data conclude that:
- Small-business owners are more likely to use LinkedIn than employees working for a corporation.
- Men are significantly more likely to use YouTube or other video marketing than women (52.4% of all men compared with 31.7% of women).
- For those just getting under way with social media marketing, LinkedIn is ranked as their number-two choice, pushing blogging down one notch.
- Among those who have been using social media for a few months, Facebook is in second place. This group also has more Twitter use.
- Twitter is used by 94% of marketers who have been using social media for years, followed closely by blogs. This group also endorses online video significantly moreso than the other groups
SocialMediaMarketingIndustryReport.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Michael Bierut notebooks from 1982 until 2008
Michael Bierut shares notebooks he has kept from 1982 until 2008.
“There always seems to be a lot of interest in designers’ sketchbooks, but I call these notebooks for a reason. I’ve seen other designer’s sketchbooks and I’m always impressed by how much creativity is on display. Not in mine. Page after page contain nothing but records of phone conversations, notes from meetings, price estimates, specifications. I keep the random doodles to a minimum. Someone looking at those pages would think the book might belong to a lawyer or, more likely, a party planner. Every once in a while, though, there are some drawings that would suggest that the owner was a designer.” – Michael Bierut
I’ve always envied other designers who keep really interesting notebooks with amazing sketches and beautifully handwritten notes, worthy of exhibition (Jose Cabaco, Mathias Paeres, Patrick Rockwell..). I’ve tried to analyse my notebooks at one time, and out of laziness I drew the conclusion that my role and relationship with my work has reached a point where I don’t feel the need to meticulously draft it all out. But a more accurate analysis would be that my process is just different from those designers whose notebooks I envy. And this is ok. Thanks Mr. Bierut. 🙂
Searching for a perfect utopia
know anyone like this? okay, okay, don’t start pointing fingers…
“many of us are so bad because we’re trying so hard to be good…. some of us are trying so hard to be good because and we’re trying to keep the bad people out… you’re the ones that are complaining about everything… you’re looking for this perfect utopia where everybody does everything just so and usually it is according to the morals you set up by picking and choosing form various churches and various moral agencies and you’re saying, ‘these are the things you have to have to line up to be right and we won’t be part of you until become one of us.’ ….you’re the folks that won’t join a church because they don’t do everything just so and you’re not willing to even dialogue about it and if it’s not this way it’s no-way…”
-kurt hannah
For years have pushed art making away from me. Partly due to lack of space and consolidating my paintings into small sketchbooks. Then I replaced paint for pen and ink, and drew smaller images into Moleskines until my drawings disappeared into lines of characters trying to form poems…
Now, I want to start painting again…
(Image source via creativeinspiration: 472239364: artpixie: love letters and skypaints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinycastles/3912498882/)
Templated magazine articles
What if a print magazine used the same template for every article? It would be pretty boring, no?
The Death Of The Blog Post – Smashing Magazine1 (via fluffynotes)
NOTES:
1) Vitaly Friedman, Nov 19, 2009, “The Death Of The Blog Post,” Smashing Magazine, accessed April 29, 2026, https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/the-death-of-the-blog-post/
Don’t edit yourself
Other people will edit you your whole life. They’ll take what you say and keep the bits they like and throw away the rest.
Don’t edit yourself. Let other people do it for you.
(via I wrote this for you) (via kari-shma) (via ireadintothings)
C.S. Lewis was abducted by aliens?
um… does this mean c.s. lewis was abducted by aliens?
Flood Reading Series @ Posana Cafe
tonight at 7:30, Flood Reading Series @ Posana Cafe featuring Ned Condini and Laura Hope-Gill
Field notes
the house where i live has a smaller carbon footprint than the all the limos & private jets at copenhagen…
how can i get one of these for my backyard?
creativeinspiration: adorablelife: bookspaperscissors: The Bibliobarn’s Bibliobargains! (via yeksitra)
twitter isn’t the right place
misssnowwhite: funny how when you really want to say something, twitter isn’t the right place.
Field notes
soundtrack to watching the snow fall on a carolina saturday morning: yo-yo ma & friends ‘songs of joy & peace’
Field notes
it started snowing an hour ago… there was a hawk perched outside the window on a naked tree limb when the sleet turned to snow… seems perfect weather for some pancakes, eggs & coffee… now if i can just find a quiet corner & a good book…
Dieter Rams: 10 design principles
via DesignApplause
Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is durable
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possibleDieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.
In 1993 I asked Dieter to speak to the Architecture & Design Society at the Art Institute of Chicago. The society recently had a name change: “design” had been added. We joked ( ahem ) at the time that the real estate economy was so bad that the Architecture Society needed new members. We needed a credible and passionate design icon to speak to this group. Dieter became the first designer to speak under the society’s new name.
What I remember that night and again recently while watching the Objectified movie was Dieter’s 10 design principles. Honestly, I can’t tell you for sure that these are the same principles. Hoping Dieter will set the story straight.
I think I like the earlier stuff better. Maybe it was the materials or maybe it was so different than the pack at the time. The first Braun product I remember making a design connect to me was an electric razor. Much of Dieter’s work has long seemed more connected to brutalism than minimalism. Let’s say beautifully, brutally, minimal.
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