AOL hell

An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out. Ugh. Not a pleasant job or company. Reminds me of a sales team whose chair heights are adjusted based on their success, or not. Unbelievable.

The most beautiful game

Nice eulogy of tennis and Federer via The most beautiful game | Prospect Magazine. For me, tennis is great because it is genuinely mano-a-mano close combat with rules. With very little opportunity for third party intervention, it comes down predominantly to the mental...

Change in media (consumption)

Don’t Blame the Papers: the declining political influence of the printed press tells the sad story of the decline of the printed press as the principal source of news in the UK. Sad only because TV is the new main source. Engaget makes a sensible argument that...

Change is going to come to China

Inner Mongolia: China’s turbulent secret. Worth reading as a counter to the generally benign progress visible in China’s Tier 1 cities. Not all roses, by any stretch. End of cheap labour. It’s all very well hoping that we can move the world’s...

Feedback for the wasted generation

Feedback Loops Are Changing What People Do is a remarkably dull title for an interesting article. It confirms that we can repeatably create 10% changes in behaviour using noticeable but unobtrusive prompts to induce feedback loops. Think of the “your...