Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow. Mike Monteiro.

"Let’s make better mistakes tomorrow. Let’s scratch our heads and give up and wake up and try it again. Let’s fail at digging the well the first three times to get it right the fourth. Let’s build faster horses, and then strap rocket ships onto them. Let’s start a company, let’s watch it fail, and then let’s start another one. Let’s be the boss. Let’s take the boss down. Let’s order too much of something just to see where our limits are. Let’s take a chance precisely because it might fail. Let’s take the hard way out. Let’s go to the moon. Fuck it; let’s go to the moon again. Let’s quit our jobs. Let’s work at being better at what we do by fucking up faster, not less. Let’s fuck up really fast. Let’s wrestle sharks, fight monsters, and disagree with the board. Let’s borrow so much money it becomes someone else’s problem. Let’s start a 10-hour drive by announcing “I’m not into you anymore.” Let’s dump everything out of the garage onto the sidewalk and build something really cool in that space. Let’s start out to build a better mousetrap, and halfway there let’s decide to jump on the mice’s team. Let’s bet on a longshot. Let’s buy her a drink. Let’s start baking bread in our cubicle. Let’s try bringing fresh water to distant villages precisely because we have no idea how to do it. Let’s pool our money. Let’s take their money. Let’s solve that hard problem. You know that one that keeps you up at night? Let’s tackle that bastard. Let it kick our ass a few times, and then finally get it right. Let’s find out what’s at the bottom of the ocean. Let’s tame the Kraken. Let’s just fucking tell people we’ve readInfinite Jest and move on. Let’s forgive our parents. Let’s do something with the goddamned planet. Let’s rent an electric generator and open a food cart that sells nothing but frosted PopTarts, but makes a lot of fucking noise. Let’s have a breakthrough. Let’s have a breakdown. Let’s agree that bruises fade, bones heal, hearts mend, and that tomorrow we’re right back on that horse and that this time, THIS TIME! we’ve at least got a rocket strapped to its back."

It is Happening

Apparently to James Murphy's dismay the new LCD Soundsystem album has leaked and hipsters everywhere have run rampant file sharing.

I am so sorry James, but I couldn't resist and its difficult to feel guilty when your album is so good!

LCD Soundsystem - This is Happening [streamed from LCD's website]

Internet Playground

I applied for a job at Google the other day and in the confirmation email they sent me a link to:

Google Labs

Google Labs is a forum to explore and comment on Google's new products, i.e. a whole lot of beta mode. Anyone who knows me knows how strongly I feel about Google's capabilities and their lab is full of applications to come, answering questions and making life easier in ways you never even knew they could.

My favorite new toy?

Google Reader Play

Where I found these must see vaguely useless/hugely enjoyable posts:

1. How to make Peepshi = Peep Sushi
2. And a study from my very own Uni LSE: Clever Women are the Heaviest Drinkers

I asked Aardvark how to get a job with Google to which Kane in China responded "Send them your resume." The perfect answer? Really?

Desperately Seeking MP3

Bombay Bicycle Club- Dust on the Ground (acoustic)

Any thoughts?

Embracing Voyeurism

"Facebook overtook Google to become America’s most popular website. Figures for the week ending March 13th showed that the social-networking site accounted for 7.1% of the country’s traffic, compared with Google’s 7.0%, the first time it has had a weekly lead. However, with revenues of $23.7 billion last year, Google remains easily the more profitable of the two." -The Economist

Does this mean that we are more interested in each other than in anything else?!

Whole Walmart

I will freely admit that I adore shopping at Whole Foods and despise being in a Walmart park lot, but am equally fascinated by both institutions. The article published last week in the Atlantic is a must read for foodies and economists alike:

The Great Grocery Smackdown

The polar opposites of grocery stores seem to be not as far apart as we might think or maybe the power of perceived quality should never to be underrated. How about Walmarts ability to evolve? This is a strategy whose success is yet to be determined but a move towards sustainability and increased quality while maintaining the lowest price the market, seems to be good to be true.

Saatchi Oil Spill

This is the first Richard Wilson instillation I have seen (or smelled), but I will be keeping an eye out for more in the future. In the basement of the Saatchi gallery this black pool of petrol makes for a fascinating instillation. The perfect black mirror plays with the viewers perception and is powerful not only in odor.

The pictures don't do it justice. Go see for yourself and than tell me how they are going to get all of that oil out of there.