The Flaming Lips created a new work using Siri as one of the performers along with Erykah Badu. Love it.

An impressive slope. iPhone and iPad contribute to a $100 billion spike in revenue for Apple in under five years.

(via Apple’s $46 billion sales set new tech record)

An impressive slope. iPhone and iPad contribute to a $100 billion spike in revenue for Apple in under five years.

(via Apple’s $46 billion sales set new tech record)

In the past, workers with average skills, doing an average job, could earn an average lifestyle.

But, today, average is officially over. Being average just won’t earn you what it used to. It can’t when so many more employers have so much more access to so much more above average cheap foreign labor, cheap robotics, cheap software, cheap automation and cheap genius.

Therefore, everyone needs to find their extra — their unique value contribution that makes them stand out in whatever is their field of employment.

Average is over.

To succeed as a TV station, you need an audience of 1m+, as a paper, 250k+, as a writer, 50k+ and as an artist, a mere 10+.
I love this – thousands of tiny people hold up a glass floor.

by artist Do Ho Suh

I love this – thousands of tiny people hold up a glass floor.

by artist Do Ho Suh

I love seeing the shifting trends in computing

(via The rise and fall of personal computing)

I love seeing the shifting trends in computing

(via The rise and fall of personal computing)

An Important Time for Design

It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that design has a massive role to play in the evolution of the web and the next generation of web products.

I love the sentiment here, but I think this goes beyond just “designing cool shit.”

It is partnering technology with someone that understands how people think. How to make something meaningful, that maybe, maybe, maybe changes their lives.

I used to think that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you’ve got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

Steve Jobs rumored to have shot down Push Pop Press for iBooks Author

This makes complete sense. The similarities of iBooks Author and Push Pop Press are pretty striking. I had wondered why Facebook had acquired them.

Making Love to WebKit

A pretty cool example of what is possible with WebKit.

The HR cost of landing an individual programmer might be $50-100k for a large company. That’s taking into account advertising, headhunter fees, interviewing time and internal staff

The #dickbar segment from The Context where Brian and Chez introduce the first every Dicky award for worst mobile design.