Famous Logos with Hidden Images
What do you see in this logo? A tree? Well, look better and look on the white :) There are more great examples in the link.
What do you see in this logo? A tree? Well, look better and look on the white :) There are more great examples in the link.
Here's a gem to start off the week. These are the "Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership," by Kent Keith (source):
1. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
2. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.
3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.
6. The biggest men with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.
7. People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.
9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway.
10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.
Keith wrote these when he was a 19-year-old Harvard sophomore, in a booklet for high school leaders. This was 1968, when students were organizing everywhere. In the three decades since, the commandments have been drawn upon by everyone from Mother Theresa to Superman. (See sightings.)
I also really like the context (here) set out before and after the rules. Here's the setup before...
[The rules] assume that you care. I mean, really. Not just because it's fashionable to appear concerned for those who are "less fortunate." Not because you know that pretending to care is going to earn you the title of Mr. Nice. Not because the redhead in the next row loves charitable people. Not because it's a good way to get attention in the public spotlight. No. Something deep, something sincere and real. Being interested in what others think, how they feel, what's important to them, what they need. ... A lot of sentimental hocus-pocus? Maybe. Personally, I am convinced that unless you really care for the people you are going to lead, you'll never do anything meaningful - except by accident....and here's after...
Personally, I'm convinced that if you are helping people for your sake and not theirs, you'll never be satisfied: either the "return" in personal glorification won't come, or if it does, it won't for long appease a constantly growing ego. If you're out for glory you'll never have enough, and you'll never be happy. On the other hand, if you really care and want to help, then a lack of recognition is no great tragedy.Amazing that this sprang forth from the pen (or manual typewriter) of a 19-year-old.
It feels great to listen to this clever and kind man. A must watch!
Great photo of a big human bull in Bilbao (Spain). Each year there are more and more people who are against bullfighting. It's curious that in Spain there is a law that forbids animal torture except when dealing with bulls. It's really hypocritical.
I wouldn't forbid bullfighting because there are better ways to end this "tradition"; like forbidding subsidies to bullfightings and similar events (a lot of companies/events depend on subsidies); or raising the taxes on all these activities.
A really interesting article about the consequences of sharing too much on the Internet, and how you can regret several years later. Should there be a legal way to delete the content about you from each website?
They asked Jobs to wear a suit?
July 20, 2010 — Richard Gayle‘I’m Going to Go Call Ralph and Yell at Him.’
[Via Daring Fireball]Fascinating piece by Fred Vogelstein for Wired magazine on the Apple-AT&T relationship:
In a bid to avert the looming problem, a team headed by senior vice president Kris Rinne met with Apple to ask for help. Of course AT&T was planning to upgrade its network to handle the increased demand, Rinne’s team told Apple executives, but that was going to take years. In the meantime, would Apple take measures to help throttle back the traffic? Perhaps Apple could restrict its YouTube app to run only over Wi-Fi. Maybe the iPhone could feature a smaller, lower-resolution videostream or cut off YouTube videos after one minute. Rinne, who had already met with Apple’s iPhone team at least half a dozen times, fully expected the company to play along. After all, manufacturers agreed to such restrictions all the time. It didn’t make sense to build phones and offer features that carriers couldn’t support.
But in meetings with Apple engineers and marketers over the subsequent year, Rinne and other AT&T executives discovered that Apple wasn’t playing by traditional wireless rules. It wasn’t interested in cooperating, especially if it meant hobbling what had quickly become its marquee product. For Apple, the idea of restricting the iPhone was akin to asking Steve Jobs to ditch the black turtleneck. “They tried to have that conversation with us a number of times,” says someone from Apple who was in the meetings. “We consistently said ‘No, we are not going to mess up the consumer experience on the iPhone to make your network tenable.’ They’d always end up saying, ‘We’re going to have to escalate this to senior AT&T executives,’ and we always said, ‘Fine, we’ll escalate it to Steve and see who wins.’ I think history has demonstrated how that turned out.”
And:
They have even fought about wardrobe: When an AT&T representative suggested to one of Jobs’ deputies that the Apple CEO wear a suit to meet with AT&T’s board of directors, he was told, “We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits.”
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How out of touch can you be to suggest Jobs change out of his trademark turtleneck and jeans? This whole story demonstrates the total difference in world views between American telcos and Apple.
I would imagine that Verizon would be having similar problems. The telcos have always gotten their way as they hobble wireless in America, compared to many other countries.
I have been reading Richard 's blog for many years - he is a gold mine
Don't be stupid! Everyone can see that the top line is longer than the bottom line. The only thing you have proved is that rulers can't be used to measure these kind of lines.
As a telecommunication engineer, it's very nice to see these images and videos from antenna test labs facilities. Apple has built 17 chambers where they test different real conditions. As a note, these chambers have to be completely clean, there can't be any kind of dump. So they are a very delicate space.
