Monika Kanokova recommended In search of resilience from sethgodin.typepad.com:

Don't need it is the shortcut to living in crazy times. If you don't have an office, it won't flood. If you have sixteen clients, losing one won't wipe you out.* If your cost of living is low, it's far less exposed to a loss in income. If there are no stairs in your house, a broken hip doesn't mean you have to move. Intentionally stripping away dependencies on things you can no longer depend on is the single best preparation to change.

Monika Kanokova recommended The critic stumbles from sethgodin.typepad.com:

No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.

Monika Kanokova recommended Plunge from swiss-miss.com:

“If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.”— Malcolm Gladwell

Monika Kanokova recommended Fashion Net Education Center: Interview mit Patricia Field from lesmads.de:

Wie du sagtest, einem Trend sollte nur gefolgt werden, wenn dahinter eine Aussage steht.

Monika Kanokova recommended Trend 5: Local Urban Culture Goes Global from popupcity.net:

The big challenge for cities is to stay creative and maintain a unique identity in a world in which even local urban culture is globalized. Helsinki is a city that has tried to come up with its own ideas — 21st century traditions as we call them. Restaurant Day is such an initiative that has put the city’s innovative, idea-driven environment on the map. This food festival invites everyone to a restauranteur for a day. You can set up a pop-up restaurant, café or a bar in your home, office, the park, or even the beach.

Monika Kanokova recommended The curated wardrobe: the new luxury from fashionising.com:

Curation is refinement.

Monika Kanokova recommended Why This CEO Doesn’t Own A Car: The Rise Of Dis-Ownership from fastcoexist.com:

The new status symbol isn’t what you own--it’s what you’re smart enough not to own.

Monika Kanokova recommended Free coffee, next exit from sethgodin.typepad.com:

The goal of a marketing interaction isn't to close the sale, any more than the goal of a first date is to get married. No, the opportunity is to move forward, to earn attention and trust and curiosity and conversation.

Monika Kanokova recommended Industrialism and the death of agency from sethgodin.typepad.com:

Agency is the ability to make a decision, and to be responsible for the decision you make.

Monika Kanokova recommended How Kids Are Remaking Our Consumer Behavior from fastcodesign.com:

When addressing complex issues of behavior change, an approach that includes a kid’s fresh perspective can give designers new tools to approach age-old problems.

Monika Kanokova recommended The Delusion And Illusion That Makes Us Buy … from robcampbell.wordpress.com:

planning [yes, here's the spurious link] isn’t just about understanding societies reality, it’s also about understanding the reality of their fantasy.

Monika Kanokova recommended Wien: Wie die reichen Russen die Stadt verändern from diepresse.com:

Plakative Statussymbole verlieren aber immer mehr an Bedeutung.

Monika Kanokova recommended Kratzbaum für 1490 Euro: Luxus auch im Zoofachhandel from diepresse.com:

Der Tiermarkt ist immun gegen Krisen. Grund sei die emotionale Ebene.

Monika Kanokova recommended Op-Ed | Making The Case Against Fast Fashion Collaborations from businessoffashion.com:

Dries van Noten once told me that his grandfather was a tailor whose specialty was to repair worn suits by taking them apart, turning the fabric inside out, and putting them back together. Surely, we no longer need to do this, but there is nonetheless something endearing in this story. We used to care about objects that surround us.

Monika Kanokova recommended Seth's Blog from sethgodin.typepad.com:

"Congratulations" is fine for winning the lottery, but "well deserved" is reserved for people who put in the effort and the time and took the risk to get somewhere.