30 of the most majestic libraries in the world – TheMindCircle.com
These are mouthwateringly beautiful: I was lucky enough to visit the above – the State Hall of the Austrian National Library in Vienna – earlier in August. Drool over the full list, here.
Meaningless headlines? It’s not just me – @economist #Writing
LOVE ISLE SEX DRUG SHOCK The Economist eases my troubled mind. It seems I’m not alone in failing to make sense of so many newspaper headlines. “Keeping the font big means omitting many of those little function words: “the”, “a”, “and”, prepositions and the like. But these words, despite their small size, have an outsize […]
Abandoned buildings
There’s something wonderfully evocative about abandoned buildings. The Mind Circle has 22 outstanding images, including this one: Image: @carlos_santero
Did you Publish? – @thisisseth #writing
A reminder, or call to arms, from Seth: “They (whoever ‘they’ is) made it easy for you to raise your hand. They made it easy for you to put your words online, your song in the cloud, your building designs, business plans and videos out in the world. They made it easy for you to […]
10 things that all creators must know – @chasejarvis #writing
A great post and podcast from Chase Jarvis. Essential insights include: “2. Clients cannot tell you what they need. 4. Big challenges create the best work. 9. A-Gamers work with A-Gamers Read (or listen to) the rest, here. Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash
Being there – Nicholas Bate
A jagged reminder from Nicholas Bate: “You may be in the meeting room/on the conference call/in the gym/reading bed-time stories, spatially and physically. But are you there mentally?” Catch more jagged thoughts here, daily. Photo by Adi Constantin on Unsplash
The three stories of self, us and now – ideas.TED.com
Eric Liu discusses the nature of power and how stories can change the status quo, on Ideas.TED.com. This is true far beyond the context of civic power in which Liu writes. “When you want to challenge the powerful, you must change the story.” He outlines three nested stories we must tell; The Story of Self […]
In praise of the Moleskine notebook – @TheCramped
Shawn Mihalik at The Cramped has a nice piece on the enduring appeal of the Moleskine notebook, here. I’m a big fan of the pocket-sized 9 x 14 cm ones and I use the larger, roughly A5, ones for my diary.
Sci-fi prototyping with @SciFutures #contentmarketing #writing
The Times has a profile of SciFutures, a firm that creates sci-fi short stories to help businesses and other organisations envision the future and develop strategies in response. It’s a great concept and one already taken up by firms like Visa, Ford, Pepsi and Samsung, along with NATO and the US Navy. We are all […]