Markus Trumann recommended Seed Magazineabout from seedmagazine.com:

Basically, I think the aliens don’t blow themselves up; they just get addicted to computer games. They forget to send radio signals or colonize space because they’re too busy with runaway consumerism and virtual-reality narcissism.

Markus Trumann recommended Sorry, We’re Closed: The Rise of Digital Darwinism from briansolis.com:

This is about Digital Darwinism, when technology and society evolve faster than the ability to adapt.

Markus Trumann recommended 25 things i want my son to know from newhealthom.com:

May you always try to make the right choices, not the easiest ones. Have the courage to lead, not follow. And to dream bigger than most others think is possible.

Markus Trumann recommended Why Brands Like Puma and GE Are Flocking to Instagram from adage.com:

When you're as complicated as GE, how you tell the story and how you bring the company to life is incredibly important.

Markus Trumann recommended The Rise of the New Groupthink from nytimes.com:

Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me ... they live in their heads. They’re almost like artists. In fact, the very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone .... I’m going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team.

Markus Trumann recommended Die Digitalen kommen from welt.de:

Wer sind diese Digitalen? Sie sind keine Generation oder Jugendbewegung. Sie müssen auch nicht zu den sogenannten "Digital Natives" gehören, die eine Welt ohne Internet nicht kennen. Die Digitalen leben, kommunizieren, arbeiten, wirtschaften, denken, forschen und shoppen im Netz. Sie haben ein bisher unbekanntes Land erobert, das auf keiner Landkarte verzeichnet ist. Sie breiten sich unaufhaltsam aus, gründen Unternehmen, Städte, ja ganze Staaten. Und es werden täglich immer mehr.

Markus Trumann recommended What Are the Clichés? from fastcodesign.com:

Disruptive hypotheses are designed to upset your comfortable business equilibrium and bring about an accelerated change in your own thinking.

Markus Trumann recommended Steve Jobs: 20 Life Lessons from mashable.com:

If it could save a person’s life, would you find a way to shave ten seconds off the boot time?

Markus Trumann recommended Everything is a service from dachisgroup.com:

The industrial economy is fueling new growth in some parts of the world, but it is leaving the US and Europe, and it’s not coming back. The time to change is not some day in the future, when you have reached a crisis of GM, Kodak or Greek proportions. The time to change is now, while you still have the financial resources to change assertively and proactively

Markus Trumann recommended Arbeitskultur: Otto zieht es ins Betahaus from spiegel.de:

Doch die Propagandisten der Szene sehen in den Spaces weit mehr als eine Möglichkeit, kostensparend Internetanschluss und Kopierer zu teilen. In einem Video, das ein aufgekratzter Trainingsjacken-Träger aus Philadelphia mitgebracht hat, äußern sich die Nutzer eines Bürogebäudes namens "Indy-Hall" euphorisch: Das sei "ein bisschen wie in einer Familie", sagt jemand, "eine echte Erfahrung": "Die Leute hier teilen wirklich ihr Leben miteinander und helfen sich, wo immer Hilfe nötig ist."

Markus Trumann recommended The Entrepreneurial Generation from nytimes.com:

Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed in those terms. Call it Generation Sell.

Markus Trumann recommended Need to Create? Get a Constraint from wired.com:

One of the many paradoxes of human creativity is that it seems to benefit from constraints. Although we imagine the imagination as requiring total freedom, the reality of the creative process is that it’s often entangled with strict conventions and formal requirements.

Markus Trumann recommended If You’re Busy, You’re Doing Something Wrong: The Surprisingly Relaxed Lives of Elite Achievers from calnewport.com:

If you’re chronically stressed and up late working, you’re doing something wrong. You’re the average players from the Universität der Künste — not the elite. You’ve built a life around hard to do work, not hard work.

Markus Trumann recommended There's nothing wrong with having a plan from sethgodin.typepad.com:

There's nothing wrong with having a plan Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

Markus Trumann recommended The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talent from the99percent.com:

Very often when we talk about the skill of ‘productivity’ what we are really talking about is ‘self-control.’