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The End-Of-Summer Reading List

This is something I wanted to do for a while. I made a little compilation of stuff that caught my eye this summer. Enjoy.

101 Spectacular Non-Ficton Stories Data Science is Just a Buzzword Search Insights Creative Insight of the Outsider The Perfected Self The Flea Bag How to Build Your Creative Confidence Joan Didion on Self-Respect Pinterest in the Purchase Funnel How 50 Big Companies Got Their Names The Spend Graph Jonathan Harris Rethinks Social Networking Boredom is Good for Your Creativity  What Does It Mean To Be Simple? The Best Piece of Advice I Ever Got Weird Experiences Boost Creativity  Risk Les Nouvelles The Origins of Creative Insight and Why You Need Grit A Visit to the Potty Lab Philosophy of Web Design Reverse Stanford Prison Experiment The Sill The Talks BuzzFeed's Strategy The Story of Enough Winners Keep Winning Luck vs. Skill Quitokeeto  Empirics & Psychology Work, Life and Side Projects  What's Mine Is Yours  What Defines a Meme? Pictures of Millenials With Everything They Own Advertising is Hated and Failing Sara Cwynar 

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SxSW is in the air

SxSW voting has started, and all of us have already encountered either one of these (or all of them). While I am not terribly optimistic about this upcoming fastival (Learn All About Hackatons! Don't Throw Your Brand Over the Cliff!), I managed to dig out a few panels from SxSW's video-enhanced-yet-still-confused Panel Picker that I'd like to see if I do go.

Should Brands Ditch Their Ad Agencies 

LEGO: Mastering the Art of Systemic Creativity

Sustainable Eating 

How to Design Tiny Services with Big Data

Prototyping UX in the Touch First World

Building Brands, Not Just Apps

The Future of Retail is in Your Appartment

Brand is Product is Service. Now What?

Install This: Making Great Digital Experiences

The End of Simple and the Future of User Experience

Can a Credit Card Create a Sense of Community?

The Future of Driving

Disrupt by Design: Innovating Inside Big Commerce 

Honesty: A Radical New Way to Work Together

Design Language for Tangible and Ambient Interfaces

At the end of the day, if I skip next year's SxSW, the only panel that I would really be missing out on is this.