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Get Satisfaction Infographic: The Potential Of Big Data - Column Five Media

WOW!
The potential increase in retailers’ operating margins from Big Data could be 60%.

That’s not just big, it’s huge.

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So utterly charming. RIP, Maurice Sendak. Thank you for the laughter and joy you have brought to so many.

theatlantic:

“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.” (via Letters Of Note)

3 weeks ago -

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Yeah, do this is what I’m doing tonight…at TriBeCa Film Festival for the world premiere of “Struck by Lightning”, written by & starting Chris Colfer.

1 month ago -

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I just signed up for UniteWrite. Every social and email communication, in one place. This looks AWESOME!

2 months ago -

Strong Opinions @marksbirch: The Hot, Wet Mess of Contact Management Tools

marksbirch:

It is a brutal scene. Contacts strewn across various email accounts, social networking sites, business cards, address books, and the like in some sort of highway pileup of chaos and destruction. None of these places knows about the others, they simply grow bigger and staler at the same time….

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PayPal: The Power of the Pyramid

Right. So PayPal is taking on Square.
With a pyramid.

Now, I’m no Euclid, but I’m pretty sure squares ecompass two pyramids. Do the math.

And also? This is just too good to pass up…way to go, Crack Marketing Team at PayPal. Your pyramid is obviously super-powerful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9L3YjyJ_IY

2 months ago -

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

JK Rowling (via brycedotvc)

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Serenity now.

Image via Wikipedia

The Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.

This little prayer (which is actually just the first verse of a longer prayer that becomes even more religious) has been used by just about everyone from Frank Costanza to Alcoholics Anonymous. It’s a cliche at this point.

But it shouldn’t be a cliche.

We should read it, understand it, and internalize it.

I’m saying this because I need to hear it too. For me, courage has never been in short supply. Where I run into a challenge is in accepting what I cannot change, and of course: the wisdom to know the difference.

There are certain things that we just simply can’t control. Not just circumstances, or the weather, or death and taxes. I’m talking about other people’s beliefs, actions, feelings, choices. And instead of making ourselves crazy over what other people do, and freaking out when it’s not what we expected or wanted, why is it so hard just to *accept*? Time and attention spent on things that are out of our hands is just wasted time. We’re never going to be able to “control” another person—and for that matter, I really don’t want to.

So I’m making a decision today to stop worrying about the things I can’t control, and focus instead on areas where it’s entirely up to me. Things may or may not go my way, but if I can look back and know for sure that I was able to concentrate 100% on things that were within my ability to change, I’ll have no choice but to be OK with the outcome.

And that sounds like a good step toward serenity.

3 months ago -

THE ZAZEELA: So, You're An Influencer?

mzazeela:

INFLUENCE

What is influence? According to Websters’ Online Dictionary:

1 : an ethereal fluid held to flow from the stars and to affect the actions of humans b : an emanation of occult power held to derive from stars

2 : an emanation of spiritual or moral force

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BRYCE DOT VC: Why I Do Unsmart Things

Kinda amazing from a VC. They’re human!

brycedotvc:

I have this fundamental belief.

And this belief often leads me to do unsmart things.

The heart of this belief is that if something I’m doing is going to succeed, then I have to do every possible thing to make it so. Now, doing so doesn’t ensure success but ultimate success is predicated on it….

3 months ago -

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