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累计：1574 篇（自 2007-04-02 起）

更新：约6篇/周，最后更新119 天前

Seth's Blog

The power of visualization

data is not useful until it becomes information, and that's because data is hard for human beings to digest.this is even more true if it's news that contradicts what we've already decided to believe. can you imagine the incredible mindshift that mercator's map of the world caused in the people who saw it? one day you believed something, and then a few m... (119 天前)

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The new frontier

what, exactly, is wrong with the old frontier?when google + launched, millions of formerly optimistic people became optimistic again. maybe this was going to be the one, the social network with just the smart people and none of the lame stuff, none of the spam or the pitches or the people we're trying to avoid.and the same thing is true when the pack r... (119 天前)

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The problem with pandering

marketing-focused almost never works.that's because no one actually understands what the market wants. when you choose to make something magical instead, when you bring passion instead of calculation to your work, you're as least as likely to get it right as the guy who is selling out.hence charlie's angels gets cancelled and that derivative movie at t... (119 天前)

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The math of favors

one of three things is going on in your head when you're entering into a transaction of any kind:i'm doing you a favor, budhey, this guy is doing me a favorthis is a favorless transactionit's interesting to think about how this internal monologue affects the way we do business. a favor, after all, is an investment in a future relationship.at the f... (119 天前)

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Yelling and whispering

have you ever encountered a really stressed, undertrained gate agent at an airport? she starts yelling into the microphone, strangling her words and insisting, demanding and emphasizing just how urgent it is that david johnson come to the gate immediately...it doesn't work, because we shut her out. like a toddler ignoring his ever more insistent parent,... (119 天前)

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Gala economics

the email feels like a welcome one. “i’d like to invite you to…”and then you find out it’s a charity gala. 500 people at an expensive hotel, eating a not very good meal and paying a great deal for the privilege. sure, some of the money goes to charity (but too much goes for the chicken in white sauce). sure, it’s entirely possible you will have ten... (119 天前)

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Skinnier

so many things that would have been money losers then can be profitable today.when you run your own concert, selling tickets online and renting the theatre out yourself, you might be able to keep 85 cents of every dollar your audience spends on a ticket. in the system we grew up with, by the time the box office, ticketmaster, the stagehands, the promote... (119 天前)

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