Archive for the 'Communication' Category

J.J. Abrams: The mystery box

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Insight to his thoughts on the creative process and story telling from his talk at TED.
Link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/205.
He also speaks briefly on the “democratisation of content”, where he discusses how technology has changed the game. Now anyone with knowledge of the digital tools can create on par with the best.
But while the technology levelled the playing [...]

Words to Live By

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Related by a former boss (a very clever businessman). This is advice he received upon starting out in the business world.

“Young Kelly, be sure to know when you don’t know… but make sure you know the b*****d that does.”

Well said. I’m still working on it.

The End or The Beginning?

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Life is all about opposition. This is not a bad thing, because as we understand that everything has an opposite we can to some degree see things as part of a larger world. An example: in everyday life, things begin and things end. The thought becomes: is an end really just another beginning?
This is a [...]