"Most of the stuff they study in school is completely useless. But some incredibly valuable things you don’t learn until you’re older – yet you could learn them when you’re younger. And you start to think, What would I do if I set a curriculum for a school? God, how exciting that could be! But you can’t do it today. You’d be crazy to work in a school today. You don’t get to do what you want. You don’t get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?"

Steve Jobs on bureaucracy in US schools.

via Signal vs Noise

"We don’t realize how much our unexamined assumptions take us to radically different places. If I’m running an organization and my starting premise about human beings is that people are fundamentally passive and inert, that they won’t do a damn thing unless I threaten them with a stick or entice them with a carrot, that takes me down one road. But I think that’s the wrong premise, the wrong theory of human nature."

Daniel Pink on intrinsic motivation and the cognitive surplus

SPOT ON!

via Signal vs Noise (37signals)

thememegeneration:

That last bit of progress bar is where they instill confidence.

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robjensen:

sebastianwaters:

Creativity is just connecting things – Steve Jobs

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How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

Surprised much?

The iPhone as a controller for iPad games

The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains

We crave the new even when we know it’s trivial.

And so we ask the Internet to keep interrupting us in ever more varied ways. We willingly accept the loss of concentration and focus, the fragmentation of our attention, and the thinning of our thoughts in return for the wealth of compelling, or at least diverting, information we receive. We rarely stop to think that it might actually make more sense just to tune it all out.

The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains by Nicholas Carr

(via Shawn Blanc)

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V Lock for easy finding of the keyhole by Junjie Zhang » Yanko Design: ” Designer: Junjie Zhang

"We’ve been hearing a lot about game piracy recently, with big developers inflicting draconian online-only DRM systems on their users, and blaming their declining PC game sales entirely on piracy. I’m not questioning that piracy is common, since even honest, DRM-free, indie developers like 2DBoy report a 90% piracy rate. I am, however, questioning what this means. How much revenue are developers actually losing to piracy?"

David, one of the developers at Wolfire.