The largest maritime empires of the 19th and 20th centuries. Visually, they grow and grow and -inevitably- explode.
via Pedro Miguel Cruz .
The largest maritime empires of the 19th and 20th centuries. Visually, they grow and grow and -inevitably- explode.
via Pedro Miguel Cruz .
First impressions fade. Last impressions last.
It is not unlike a press release that your corporate self announces to your target market.
via James Shelley.
Promuevo que la comunicación no sea histérica, ni repentina, ni de instintos. Hoy tenemos asociado el sonido de la llegada de un mensaje a través de cualquiera de los nuevos dispositivos con la inmediatez y esto es una esclavitud. Los esclavos son los que hoy no pueden prescindir de la red, del ordenador, de las llamadas, etc. Los señores de sí mismos son capaces de desconectarse. Esto es lo que llamo lentitud Slow Communication, no estar acelerado.
Por ejemplo, si estas con una persona pensando en lo que va a pasar después, entonces no estás con la persona. La comunicación debe respetar el presente de las personas.
Tengo un día a la semana que no uso la red. Si quiero leer, anulo el correo, el teléfono y me desconecto. 24 horas a la semana sin estar en contacto con la red es muy saludable. Algunos sienten que no pueden estar desconectados y el efecto carencia es muy parecido al del fumador empedernido. Eso es lo malo y es de lo que conviene saber gobernar. Prefiero ser un protagonista de mi propia vida que ser un reaccionario de acuerdo a las motivaciones externas.
via U de los Andes.
On the nature of storytelling and its redeeming power (from an interview with the Screenplayers):
“Storytelling is the primary civilizing instrument in culture,” he said. He then quoted Aristotle: “‘When the storytelling goes bad in society, the result is decadence.’ The way out,” he continued, “is through great storytelling. It sensitizes society to the humanity in other people. Writers of the 21st Century will have to work harder.
On the success of his book and workshops (from a profile in the New Yorker):
I discovered this enormous hunger for what I thought was common sense, common knowledge (…). I’m repeating what I was taught, and then adding some little insights I’d had—but basically recycling Kenneth Rowe and John Howard Lawson and Aristotle, and putting it in a contemporary context for these people. I’m putting the obvious into a new context, and I see their slack-jawed, wide-eyed look, and their tremendous hunger to know what I knew. It’s obviously needed. I can see the emptiness out there.
A 10-minute interview on The Hour:
See also: How do you set people on fire?
can be found here.
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“Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.”
So read an email sent to 400 RadioShack employees.
Q: Is the medium appropriate to the message and to the audience?