The Week's Links: April 15, 2016

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing

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As a result, photos are less markers of memories than they are Web-browser bookmarks for our lives. And, just as with bookmarks, after a few months it becomes hard to find photos or even to navigate back to the points worth remembering. Google made hoarding bookmarks futile. Today we think of something, and then we Google it. Photos are evolving along the same path as well.

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Bilinguals Are Better Negotiators

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Ingenious researchers have found that sometimes decision-making in a foreign language is actually better. Researchers at the University of Chicago gave subjects a test with certain traps—easy-looking “right” answers that turned out to be wrong. Those taking it in a second language were more likely to avoid the trap and choose the right answer. Fluid thinking, in other words, has its down-side, and deliberateness an advantage. And one of the same researchers found that even in moral decision-making—such as whether it would be acceptable to kill someone with your own hands to save a larger number of lives—people thought in a more utilitarian, less emotional way when tested in a foreign language. An American working in Denmark says he insisted on having salary negotiations in Danish—asking for more in English was excruciating to him.

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

What I Learned from Trying to Innovate at The New York Times

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John Geraci in Harvard Business Review:

The Times is a perfect example of company-as-organism. Employees at the Times rarely go offsite for lunch or meetings. When you work there, your network is inside the building. That’s where all of the action is, where the valuable information is traded, where the battles are fought, and where the victories are won. When the Core Team or the Newsroom Team or the Beta Team finds a solution, it is a Times solution. Naturally there are inputs and outputs to the company, but like an organism, these are discrete — a mouth, a nose, an ear. At the Times, the Strategy Team pursues and manages strategic relationships for the company, takes in the resources needed to stay alive, and channels those to the rest of the organism. It’s the model of the companies our fathers and mothers worked at. And it worked great for them.

But in today’s world, it doesn’t. Companies with the organism mindset are too slow to adapt to survive in the modern world. The world around them changes, recombines, evolves, and they are stuck with their same old DNA, their same old problems, their same old (failed) attempts at solutions.

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Week's Links: April 8, 2016

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ALL THE LINKS POSTED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS THIS WEEK:

  • Here’s How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down owl.li/10n1HJ
  • Are Naps Actually Good for Economic Productivity? owl.li/10n7vw
  • Science Says Art Will Make Your Kids Better Thinkers (and Nicer People) owl.li/10n1JH
  • How An MIT Data Viz Guru Is Exposing Cryptic Government Data owl.li/10kom1
  • ◉ All Creative Work Builds On What Came Before owl.li/10eW8c
  • Here’s how over 400 journalists at dozens of news orgs reported out the massive Panama Papers story owl.li/10kh6O
  • How To Design Happiness owl.li/10kojD
  • Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People owl.li/10jX8l
  • How ICIJ got hundreds of journalists to collaborate on the Panama Papers owl.li/10kmZr
  • FCC introduces broadband labels inspired by nutrition facts owl.li/10hsmz
  • Satellite view of a river changing course over time owl.li/10kmiR
  • MIT Invents A Way To 3-D Print Liquid Robots owl.li/10m5MM
  • A new Rembrandt, painted by data analysis owl.li/10khcI
  • Streaming Service BroadwayHD Bulks Up With ‘Buried Child’ Livestream owl.li/10gPpU
  • ◉ Fighting Ugliness With Massimo Vignelli owl.li/10eVOo
  • Three Ways Google Predicts Your Smartphone Will Change The Future Of Work owl.li/10gtYD
  • Mobile Is Eating the World (2016) owl.li/10gPkc
  • Let These Game Theorists Show You A Better Way To Resolve Conflicts owl.li/10gtSn
  • Museum Logos: Drawing The Line owl.li/10gOI3
  • ◉ The Surprising Habits Of Original Thinkers - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/4/6/…
  • Technology as "a toy" until it isn't. owl.li/10gtIa
  • All the President's Men: An Oral History owl.li/10gA0P
  • Why Your Brain Actually Works Better in Winter owl.li/10gYbe
  • What are the Panama Papers? A guide to the biggest data leak in history | News | The Guardian owl.li/10guod
  • Why Google Maps Shows You Different Borders, Depending On Where You Are owl.li/10eRV0
  • Ross Ulbricht’s life in prison after Silk Road owl.li/10eGFK
  • ◉ Journalism in the Age of Data, a Visually Stunning Documentary owl.li/10eVEu
  • NASA Announces the Science Experiments That Will Ride on the Most Powerful Rocket Ever owl.li/10eGue
  • What Are the Biggest Waves in Recorded History? owl.li/10eGDS
  • How we'll find life on other planets owl.li/10eGrH
  • First look: The last ever interview with Dr Oliver Sacks owl.li/10eGCF
  • ◉ How Alfred Hitchcock Blocks A Scene -  smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/4/5/…
  • This 'Field of Light' grows in the Australian desert owl.li/10ejEF
  • Talks to inspire projects with kids owl.li/10eGB7
  • This Japanese Novel Authored By A Computer Is Scarily Well-Written owl.li/10eRVD
  • How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence owl.li/10eGvP
  • How Marshall Islanders Navigated the Sea Using Only Sticks and Shells owl.li/10dNuF
  • A Cambridge professor on how to stop being so easily manipulated by misleading statistics owl.li/10dNu1
  • ◉ The End of Education Is the Dawn of Learning owl.li/10eVx6
  • What's Over the Horizon? These New Maps Will Show You owl.li/10dNf8
  • The AP Finally Realizes It’s 2016, Will Let Us Stop Capitalizing ‘Internet’ owl.li/10dNpy
  • Comma Queen: The Illustrious Ampersand owl.li/10dEp2
  • This Stretch of Route 66 Plays “America the Beautiful” for Law-Abiding Drivers | Nerdist owl.li/10dNpa
  • ◉ Being An Expert Literally Changes How You See Things - smartercreativity.com/blog/2016/4/3/…
  • How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence owl.li/10c8vB
  • Talks to watch when every conceivable bad thing has just happened to you owl.li/10dNnm
  • Scientists Have Identified a Universal Nope Face -- Science of Us owl.li/10dNvi
  • The Perfect VR Headset Is Actually Just A Hoodie owl.li/10dNkj
  • Florence Nightingale Saved Lives by Creating Revolutionary Visualizations of Statistics (1855) owl.li/10c8ba
  • The Met Digitally Restores the Colors of an Ancient Egyptian Temple, Using Projection Mapping Technology owl.li/10c87t
  • The 1939-1940 New York World's Fair owl.li/10c6dz
  • 50 Must-See Documentaries, Selected by 10 Influential Documentary Filmmakers owl.li/10c82H
  • Advice on Writing From The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates owl.li/10c5E5
  • The Math Behind Beethoven’s Music owl.li/10c7Wk
  • You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self owl.li/10c5u2
  • The next 100 years of humans in space owl.li/10c6ir
  • Watch the Earliest Surviving Filmed Version of The Wizard of Oz (1910) owl.li/10c8e9
  • The invention of the jump shot owl.li/10c6fG
  • Six James Beard Finalists You Might Have Missed: A Reading List owl.li/10c4Jd
  • This Is Where Bad Bankers Go to Prison owl.li/10c3DD
  • Regis McKenna's 1976 Notebook And The Invention Of Apple Computer, Inc. owl.li/10c1GR
  • How to Hack an Election owl.li/10c3jr
  • See How 6 Great Proof-Of-Concept Shorts Spawned Feature Film Deals owl.li/10c1CT
  • 14 Classic Poems To Reread For National Poetry Month, Because You Know It's Your Favorite Month Of The Year owl.li/10c3dH
  • Younger Viewers Watch 2.5 Times More Internet Video Than TV (Study) owl.li/10c1rD
  • The only way to achieve anything is to become comfortable with rejection. Here’s how | Linda Blair owl.li/10c5q2
  • New Research Reveals Rachmaninoff's Secret Career owl.li/10c3bc
  • Top 100 pre-kill one-liners owl.li/10c1Ii
  • The History of Aretha, in Ten Videos - The New Yorker owl.li/109inR
  • Ugg: the look that refused to die | Marisa Meltzer | Fashion | The Guardian owl.li/109i1V
  • First look: The last ever interview with Dr Oliver Sacks owl.li/108t8J
  • How Meryl Streep Battled Dustin Hoffman, Retooled Her Role, and Won Her First Oscar owl.li/109hMW
  • An early Beatles gig for only 18 people owl.li/106kMI
  • Planet Money Explores The Economics Of T-Shirts owl.li/109hk0
  • Amateur Astronomers Capture an Asteroid or Comet Colliding With Jupiter owl.li/106kjt
  • Inside France’s National Food Festival owl.li/109iqd
  • Three Lessons On Innovation I Learned During My 12 Years At Apple owl.li/108vhN
  • How The 2016 Olympic Logo and Font were Created owl.li/108uFZ
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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.