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via Cat and Girl

That’s what people call successful decision making that happens without a narrative. Intuition isn’t guessing. It’s sophisticated pattern matching, honed over time. Don’t dismiss intuition merely because it’s difficult to understand. You can get better at it by practicing.

via Seth Godin’s Blog on marketing, tribes and respect

The Financial Times ran a column critical of Hewlett Packard Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman. The company’s marketing chief, Henry Gomez, threatened to cut the advertising it ran in the newspaper. Lucy Kellaway’s response is perfect.

My piece was not biased and I fear you misunderstand our business model. It is my editors’ steadfast refusal to consider the impact of stories on advertisers that makes us the decent newspaper we are. It is why I want to go on working here. It is why the FT goes on paying me.

Kellaway seems almost happy to have gotten such a direct threat in the first place, in an age of smarmy PR outreach and cold silence. But it’s no surprise that HP is the one to break ranks. When did it get its reputation for this sort of "nice ads you have there" nastiness?

via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/02/16/financial-times-response-to.html

via Seen Through a Glass http://lewbryson.blogspot.com/2016/01/seen-through-glass.html

What is the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all of your devices and accesses the data, the other is a hardware standard.

(via r/funny)

via Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2016/01/25/what-is-the-difference-between-2.html

via Daring Fireball http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/technology/transformation-at-yahoo-foiled-by-its-leaders-inability-to-bet-the-farm.html

The post All tensed up. appeared first on Indexed.

via Indexed http://thisisindexed.com/2015/11/all-tensed-up/

A petition has been started on the White House website to nominate our very own Charlie Papazian for the Nobel Peace Prize. While we aren’t the masterminds behind this movement, it’s absolutely something we can support! The petition reads: Dear President Obama, Charlie Papazian is the originating force between two industries, home-brewing and the craft […]

The post White House Petition Formed to Nominate Charlie Papazian for Nobel Peace Prize appeared first on American Homebrewers Association.

via American Homebrewers Association http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/white-house-petition-formed-to-nominate-charlie-papazian-for-nobel-peace-prize/

Each year we ask Zymurgy magazine readers to share a list of their 20 favorite beers that are commercially available in the United States. We’ve tallied the votes, and here are the results for the 2015 Best Beers in America survey, including Top Ranked Beers, Top Breweries, Best Porfolio and Top Imports. Share your favorite commercial beers in […]

The post Zymurgy‘s 2015 Best Beers in America Results appeared first on American Homebrewers Association.

via American Homebrewers Association http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/news/zymurgys-2015-best-beers-in-america-results/

via Shoebox http://www.shoeboxblog.com/?p=35888