我们都知道这种感觉。你在悲伤的夜晚失眠，或者在朦胧的周末清晨蹒跚而行，需要一些阅读的东西，而那一堆未读的书并不能阻止你。为什么不从Twitter和RSS的消防水龙带中休息一下，看看我们每周从网络上收集的关于技术、文化、媒体和未来的重要文章？当然，坐在Instapaper队列中你会感到内疚的还有一件事，但总比再次在Twitter列表上徒劳地拉好。

在应用程序上

《技术评论》（TechnologyReview）主编兼出版商詹森•庞蒂斯（JasonPontis）从经验上说，他对出版商开发定制应用程序所浪费的时间和精力表示遗憾。

技术评论：贾森庞蒂斯-为什么出版商不喜欢应用程序。

We wasted $124,000 on outsourced software development. We fought amongst ourselves, and people left the company. There was untold expense of spirit. I hated every moment of our experiment with apps, because it tried to impose something closed, old, and printlike on something open, new, and digital.

在hp上

执行委员会的停车场被铁丝网围住，科林斯堡的员工被迫自带电灯上班，这些观察结果让詹姆斯·班德勒和多丽丝·伯克对惠普公司动荡衰落和争吵文化的看法成为一本极好的读物。

福布斯：作者-惠普如何迷失方向

Two visiting c***ultants are waiting for the elevator at a big company’s headquarters. One is from HP, the other from IBM. The c***ultant from Big Blue pushes the up button to visit the CEO on the top floor. The HP man, by contrast, hits the down button to see the IT guy in the basement. The message was clear: IBM was c***orting with kings while HP was on hands and knees, fixing the plumbing.

论地球工程

迈克尔斯佩克特探索过去，现在和未来的人类努力，以改变全球变暖的影响。

《纽约客》：迈克尔·斯佩克特-气候修正者

"We have devised a system that introduces no additional threats into the environment,’’ he told me. "And the idea of interfering with benign nature is ridiculous. The Bambi view of nature is totally false. Nature is violent, amoral, and nihilistic. If you look at the history of this planet, you will see cycles of creation and destruction that would offend our morality as human beings. But somehow, because it’s ‘nature,’ it’s supposed to be fine.’’

论设计

考虑一个Photoshop或者任何专业应用程序，真的，它的学习曲线不会让你在YouTube上看几个小时的教程，而你试图保持勉强控制住的愤怒，推着你把电脑扔到房间的另一边。

兰兹在休息：迈克尔洛普-两个宇宙

The plethora of online Photoshop tutorials dem***trate its power and its flexibility, but I believe they also dem***trate its poor design. Think about it like this: what if each time you plunked down in front of World of Warcraft, you had to spend an hour trying to remember, wait, how do I play this?

论散居

凯伦·韦斯（Karen Weise）在该团队宣布Facebook备选方案两年后查看了Diaspora的进展情况。

商业周刊：Karen Weise-在Diaspora的社交网络上，你拥有自己的数据

On Facebook, users are funneled into the same design.Whether they’re mad or elated, their updates on Facebook all appear identical: all in Lucida font, all the same size, everything in blue and white. Surely online personas could be a better visual depiction of personalities. Diaspora’s hoping that with the right tools, people could be proud of the things they make online and could channel the joy of DIY creativity.

在诺基亚上

PeterKirwan详细介绍了自5年前推出iPhone以来，诺基亚如何应对不断变化的**市场。

《连线英国》：彼得·基尔万——诺基亚的最后立场：这家拥有147年历史的公司能否设计自己的回归之路？

Asked how the company had changed when he returned in 2009, Ahtisaari thinks silently for 12 seconds before replying. "I could feel it in my bones that there was a great degree of complexity in how things were getting done," he says. "I also didn't feel that design was at the core of the decision-making process."

论模因

本杰明·杰克逊认为“模因、互联网和神之间的联系”

Buzzfeed:本杰明·杰克逊-免费互联网是新的上帝吗？

Our God, the internet, is eerily similar to the gods of old. As it’s really just a huge mess of loosely connected individuals, its behavior tends to reflect our predispositi***. It acts quickly, and often without due c***ideration. It has a short attention span. It likes babies, and things that are physiologically similar to babies. And much like our ancestors, we hold ceremonies to worship our idols and form angry mobs to make our points clear.

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