This Week - May 17, 2013

Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined...People who create know this. They know the world is all strangers with candy. They know how to say “no” and they know how to suffer the consequences.

— Kevin Ashton

Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly.

— Cliff Watson

“You’re looking for three things, generally, in a person,” says Buffett. “Intelligence, energy, and integrity. And if they don’t have the last one, don’t even bother with the first two. I tell them, ‘Everyone here has the intelligence and energy—you wouldn’t be here otherwise. But the integrity is up to you. You weren’t born with it, you can’t learn it in school.

— Farnam Street Blog

The closer we get to a marriage of media and creative through the partnered use of this rich data, the better our ads get, the happier people are to receive those ads, the more publishers get paid, the more brands succeed.

— What Candy Can Teach Is About Digital Advertising

Incredible Made By Hand mini-documentary about Ezra Caldwell, the man behind Fast Boy Cycles. Sadly, he was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer.