washed over with the spirit.

hot damn. true christmas.
Verve Remixed : Discography : Verve Unmixed Christmas

good golly.

'11 is shaping up to be an odd year.

on experience.

life should be an act of constant curation, building to the penultimate. collect. discard. refine. it makes me think of this. a neat site on making every day a collection i also like this wiki on digital curating.

can't say i.

disagree with the sentiment of this. not that i'd stop eating animal. nor am i about to start eating people. but it evokes nature n' nurture. let's be honest. what we eat is dictated by some odd spectrum of societal influence. cute cows are just as cute as cute dogs.

shit used to be cool.

a walk.

con*fused.

right now. i can't think of what makes us great. or rather, what the biggest influences on our greatness are. there's many factors, but i'm most concerned with this: is it the individual? the circumstances? the partnership?
digital spitting.

Music. NPR Me Excited.

Thanks Bob & Robin. I'm excited for the following:

Little Scream

Coming to NYC 5/19 - See?

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi Feat. Jack White: The Rose With A Broken Neck

When Did Listening Become Hard?

Mashable is great. No argument. Pure wealth of knowledge, but with the new wave of 'listening to the consumer' still washing over us, I am always taken aback when I feel like we talk about it as if it's a burden or some new practice. In a recent post they gave us 9 apps for gathering customer feedback. All well and great, but the language around it always surprises me:

their input and suggestions can help you make more sound business decisions. Further, encouraging customer feedback can also lead to better business relationships and stronger customer retention.

It's no slight on Mashable, it's simply sad that we've devolved to the point where we can say, with a straight face that 'feedback can also lead to better business relationships.' Simple fact - feedback, open discourse on all levels internally and externally, the most critical cog in the machine of innovation and fundamental to success.

Rather than thinking of apps and consumer-monitoring dashboards, we should be looking at models like Ideo and their Open Ideo crowd-sourcing-solution-finding network. Simply put - less tools, more organic listening and more collaboration. Maybe we're just thinking too hard?