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How to Win Over the Chinese Consumer (by bigthink)
Fascinating. Really well put! Tom Doctoroff of JWT pretty much says everything I’ve spent a lifetime trying to decipher.
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On Empathy and Apathy: Two Case Studies by Whitney Hess
- The suffix -pathy means “feeling” or “suffering”
- The prefix em- means “within” or “inside”
- The prefix a- means “not” or “without”
By definition, empathy is the opposite of apathy.
Empathy is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another” —within + feeling or inside + suffering.
Apathy is defined as “a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern” — not + feeling orwithout + suffering.
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I believe it is the empathy-apathy disposition spectrum that is, at the very core, responsible for creating organizational and communal culture. And it only takes one person to plant the seed.
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High Resolution“In the modern world, we’re all interdependent, we’re all interconnected. You just can’t say that you’re only going to deal with your own kind of person, or you’re only going to meet your own kind of person, or you’re only going to listen to your own kind of person. That’s not the way the world is going to work. And we’ll either figure out how to be more integrated, or we will disintegrate.”— Hillary Clinton, the most traveled Secretary of State in History.
(via kneedheart)
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"I really want some meaning. It used to be easy to toss it off. Now it’s harder and harder. You have to navigate just to find something that has nourishment. It’s the absence of nourishment. What do you do in place of nourishment? It’s usually junk. Either it’s junk food or junk clothes or junk ideas."
- Toni Morrison on pop culture, in a fantastic interview on love, loss and modernity. (via explore-blog)(Source: , via explore-blog)
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Zeitgeist 2011: Year In Review (by Google)
For a technology company, Google is so human in their communications. They knock it out of the park every time. I hate it.
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Ice Cube Celebrates The Eames (by pacificstandardtime)
In a promo for Pacific Standard Time (a co-op that celebrates the LA Art scene), Ice Cube delivers his commentary on the Eames and their impact on L.A. and design in general.
Fun fact of the day: Before he was Ice Cube the rapper, he studied architectural drafting at the Phoenix Institute of Technology. According to an interview with The NYTimes, he hasn’t touched a T-square since he got his certificate in ‘88.
(Found via Kottke)
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America In Primetime | Official Trailer (by FirstHandFilms1)
I don’t watch public broadcasting as much as I should, and it’s going to change. America in Primetime is a 4-part series about American primetime programming and its effect on its audience and society. It’s surprising how much these shows have accomplished culturally while entertaining the masses.
Navel-gazing as it is, it’s done in the most refreshing way. Stars and writers of beloved shows (both past and current) comment on their own material and others. To quote NPR’s David Bianculli:
And when these people talk about TV, they don’t feel the need to play nice and agree. While most writer-producers in this show talk about television drama series as a novel, allowing an examination of characters over dozens of hours instead of just a movie-length drama, Sopranos creator David Chase asks what’s so great about that? Who needs a Casablanca II, III, or IV? And when it comes to the idea of having a serial killer as your central character in Showtime’s Dexter, you’d be surprised who doesn’t approve of that concept. At least I was surprised. Because right along with Michael C. Hall, the star of Dexter, talking about his vengeful character, you have Tom Fontana and then David Simon, creator of The Wire, talking about why they think Dexter goes too far.
Whether you’re a heavy tv watcher, a lover of character development, or a connoisseur of dramatic/comedic writing (guilty on all counts), this short series is a definite must-watch.
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"Individuals often initiate small changes, many of which become widespread, and it is through cultural learning that they spread. People learn from the interaction between their existing cultural or biographical equipment and new experiences — a preeminently mental process."
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