10 Things Wes Anderson Should Never Do Again That Make Moonrise Kingdom Great
By Sean Fennessey, grantland.com

TWEEDY TICS

Regard­less of their qual­i­ty, Wes Ander­son’s movies are pre­cious lit­tle con­trap­tions. They’re like antique Matryosh­ka dolls encased in an eighth grad­er’s vol­cano dio­ra­ma and sit­u­at­ed in a doll­house made of Legos and…

neil-gaiman:

I am convinced that this Peter Serafinowicz rock video for Hot Chip is secretly an episode of Doctor Who. I strongly suspect that I think that this means that Reggie Watts should be the Doctor. Unless it means that Terence Stamp should be the Doctor. (Or is Terence Stamp the Master?)

boiledleather:

This is the National performing “The Rains of Castamere” for the Game of Thrones soundtrack. This is the world we live in now.

blakemasters:

Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 14 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s.

Class 14 Notes Essay—Seeing Green

I. Thinking About Energy

Alternative energy and cleantech have attracted an enormous amount of investment capital and attention over the last decade. Almost nothing has worked as well as people expected. The cleantech experience can thus be quite instructive. Asking important questions about what went wrong and what can be done better is a very good way to review and apply many of the things we’ve talked about in class.

A. The Right Framework

How should one think about energy as a sector? What’s an appropriate theoretical framework?

Revisiting the 2x2 matrix of determinate/indeterminate and optimistic/pessimistic futures may be useful. To recap, here are examples of those respective quadrants:

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ifindkarma:

 Give 100%. 110% is impossible. 

fuckyournoguchicoffeetable:

TERRARIUM TUESDAY

Fuck your hanging lightbulb terrarium.

felixsalmon:

So, where would you put LTCM on this matrix?

(via Whom Should We Prevent From Blowing Themselves Up, And Why? « Dealbreaker)

felixsalmon:

1    Bacon, Francis
2    Still, Clyfford
3    Zao Wou-Ki
4    Zeng Fanzhi
5    Rothko, Mark
6    Basquiat, Jean-Michel
7    Warhol, Andy
8    Thiebaud, Wayne
9    Kooning, Willem de
10    Richter, Gerhard
11    Chu Teh-Chun
12    Zhang Xiaogang
13    Botero, Fernando
14    Wang Yidong
15    Fontana, Lucio

Welcome to the Virtual Crash Course in Design Thinking
stanford.edu

“A 90-minute video-led cruise through our methodology”

Wel­come to the d.school’s Vir­tu­al Crash Course resource page!

We know not every­one can make a trip the d.school to expe­ri­ence how we teach design think­ing. So, we cre­at­ed this onl…

Here Is a Map of 14,000 Venture Capital Investments
Megan Garber, theatlantic.com

A company has tracked the connections — and the cliques — of the VC social scene.

Coop­er­a­tion, whether it takes place among the hunter-gatherer tribes of Africa or the meme-spreading users of the Inter­net, works pret­ty much the same way: …