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Our musical mathematician breaks down what makes up performers. By @Discographies.

"Can you please confirm that you are Web 2.0 compliant so that we cannot be sued for discrimination by law?"
— (via clientsfromhell)
gabobetancourt: EVOLUTION?
(via threeframes)
I’m mad at everyone

No, not you. Not anyone in particular, actually.

I’m angry at the idea of ‘everyone’ and what they want and what they say.

Everyone says you should do your site and your online presence a certain way.

Everyone is upset at what you did.

Everyone is frustrated at the slow pace government is getting this done.

Everyone knows you should listen to your customers and do what they say.

Everyone knows that our school is wasting money.

Everyone says you need to go to a ‘good’ college.

You get the idea. That everyone.

The one that’s almost always wrong.

via Seth Godin.
Excellent “out of the box” ways for creatives to find Inspiration.

1. Watch an old classic movie or tv-show

2. Visit a market

3. Travel

4. Explore your own home

5. Listen to new music

6. Random Wikipedia-articles

7. Make a list of bad ideas (!!)

8. Pick up a new hobby

9. Read a biography

10. Smell the flowers

11. Explore YouTube

12. Reconnect with old friends

13. Visit the Twitterverse

14. Play a “mindless” computer-game

15. Sing and dance

16. Make an inspirational string/book

17. Redecorate your office space

18. Change your computers settings

19. Laugh!

20. Check out your creative friend’s websites

21. Read up on something new

22. Learn how to use new software

23. Play!

24. A day without a computer

25. Clean up your digital mess

26. Do something that isn’t “you”

27. Visit a café and look at the people around you

28. Talk to other creatives

29. Help someone for free

30. Try out some new food

31. Look at tutorials

32. Take pictures

32. Take pictures
From less to more: The Power of Positive Thought

You’re fickle

Why’s that such a problem? To be fickle means you want to achieve greater things. Fickle is a synonym for professionalism. If you’re blase, you’re on the road to failure.

You move quickly between projects

You’re a creative – you seek and crave new objectives, new things to see, experience, feel. This is a perfectly natural part of the job. Why see this as a problem? The stumbling block is in distraction. If you can master the art of discipline, and by this I mean setting yourself rigorous schedules to stick to, then you can swing by as many projects as possible. In fact, if you can master a range of jobs that would stymie your peers, your reputation as a craftsman of planning will be cemented.

Constructive feedback is all about the idea, not your personal credibility or ability

When someone remarks unfavourably on the job in hand, think about the reasons. Ask them to expand on their judgement – not in a derogatory sense, but in a way that lets them know you’re totally on side. All too often the designer is thought of as the guy with the pen, but you can instantly challenge that stereotype by asking the kind of questions that builds these people up, and builds your position up in their expectations.

via Inspired Magazine.
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
— C.W. Ceram
"The best way to begin an optimization project is to make sure that all your code is readable. Search engine spiders work much the same way that the human eye does, and if there’s too much “junk text” in your HTML, it’s going to be hard for spiders to know what is what and to be able to decide that a page is relevant to a particular category. Improving your structural organization will not only make it easier to read for you, but ensure that search engine spiders know what you’re trying to show them."
— Brandon Olejniczak - A list a part
" It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them”."
— Steve Jobs via @uxquotes
"Twitter spam. Really? Are you even paying attention? I’ll say it again, you choose who you follow. If you’re following a newsbot, you’re going to get news spam. If you follow a good friend who can’t stop RTing, you’re going to to get retweet spam, but complaining about it is like standing the middle of a freeway asking, “Why do these cars keep hitting me?"
— Cooper Journal: One free interaction