我們都知道這種感覺。你在悲傷的夜晚失眠，或者在朦朧的週末清晨蹣跚而行，需要一些閱讀的東西，而那一堆未讀的書並不能阻止你。為什麼不從Twitter和RSS的消防水龍帶中休息一下，看看我們每週從網路上收集的關於技術、文化、媒體和未來的重要文章？當然，坐在Instapaper佇列中你會感到內疚的還有一件事，但總比再次在Twitter列表上徒勞地拉好。

在應用程式上

《技術評論》（TechnologyReview）主編兼出版商詹森•龐蒂斯（JasonPontis）從經驗上說，他對出版商開發定製應用程式所浪費的時間和精力表示遺憾。

技術評論：賈森龐蒂斯-為什麼出版商不喜歡應用程式。

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

執行委員會的停車場被鐵絲網圍住，科林斯堡的員工被迫自帶電燈上班，這些觀察結果讓詹姆斯·班德勒和多麗絲·伯克對惠普公司動蕩衰落和爭吵文化的看法成為一本極好的讀物。

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.

論地球工程

邁克爾斯佩克特探索過去，現在和未來的人類努力，以改變全球變暖的影響。

《紐約客》：邁克爾·斯佩克特-氣候修正者

"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.’’

論設計

考慮一個Photoshop或者任何專業應用程式，真的，它的學習曲線不會讓你在YouTube上看幾個小時的教程，而你試圖保持勉強控制住的憤怒，推著你把電腦扔到房間的另一邊。

蘭茲在休息：邁克爾洛普-兩個宇宙

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?

論散居

凱倫·韋斯（Karen Weise）在該團隊宣佈Facebook備選方案兩年後查看了Diaspora的進展情況。

商業週刊：Karen Weise-在Diaspora的社交網路上，你擁有自己的資料

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.

在諾基亞上

PeterKirwan詳細介紹了自5年前推出iPhone以來，諾基亞如何應對不斷變化的**市場。

《連線英國》：彼得·基爾萬——諾基亞的最後立場：這家擁有147年曆史的公司能否設計自己的回歸之路？

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."

論模因

本傑明·傑克遜認為“模因、網際網路和神之間的聯絡”

Buzzfeed:本傑明·傑克遜-免費網際網路是新的上帝嗎？

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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