Sheryl Sandberg’s speech at HBS included career advice from Eric Schmidt, “Don’t be an idiot… Get on a rocketship.”
Books are the core topic. meme360 is the exploration. I hope you’ll keep me company along the way.
Meme ︱mēm︱ noun: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means.
Information does not imply meaning, or knowledge, or – much less – wisdom. And, meanwhile, we can find meaning where we can. We’re engaging in a project of organizing knowledge, sorting it, filtering it, reviewing it. We need to remind ourselves that this project has been underway for many centuries, and it’s never going to end. It is subjective, and imperfect, and unstable.
James Gleick, author of The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood – one of 7 essential books about the future of information and the internet – speaking at Harvard. (via explore-blog)
Original Classics Illustrated Comics, now available in digital, published by Trajectory.
“The original Classics Illustrated comics series began publishing in 1941 and was created by Albert Kanter. The series featured extremely abridged versions of classic works of literature with the original comic books varying from 64 pages to about 48 in later years…”
(via Publishers Weekly)
RT @JulieFHedlund @HUnderdown @pwkidsbookshelf February strong sales of children’s books across formats: Hardcover, Paperback and E-book.
(via Publishers Weekly; photo source―Association of American Publishers)
People think focus means saying yes to the things you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done. Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.
Steve Jobs, 1997 Worldwide developers Conference (via simplifyyourlife)
Selective = simplicity
(via asasku)
Remembering Maurice Sendak.
(via Underwire)
Check out theBlu and dive the web! #theBlu A worldwide collaboration of artists to render the world’s ocean habitats in a new “social digital ocean.”
Kids step in for Sir David Attenborough and narrate BBC’s Planet Earth. Yes, the sweetest thing on the internet.
(via explore-blog; ↬ Boing Boing)
London readers continue to browse in a bombed library during World War II.
(via retweet of Susan Elia MacNeal’s blog entry by @JaneatRandom)
Next Issue Media now offers an all-you-can-read subscription to its digital magazine stand, “including Better Homes & Gardens, ELLE, Esquire, Fortune, People, Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, TIME, and Vanity Fair.”
(via TechCrunch)
