This Week - Feb 07, 2014

My business partner and I are both from Ohio and I think we both like to hire people from the Midwest because we all seem to think about the world in similar ways. We just make sense to each other. It’s also the reason we love to work with Red Wing. Part of it is the spirit of the company, and part of it is the people. Nothing is forced and nothing is insincere. If something doesn’t make sense, they don’t do it.

— Made in the Land of Wheat and Maize. (Michael Williams for A Continuous Lean)

The tweet-vacuuming outrage-bait Storify listicle has become one of the most tired and lazy crutches of online media.

— Boston bartender pissed BuzzFeed used his tweet out of context (Luke O'Neil For BDCwire)

Young artists in LA can really experiment, and if their efforts fall short, it's not that bad because their rent is relatively cheap and almost everyone else they know is trying new things and failing, too.

— I left New York for LA because creativity requires the freedom to fail (Moby for The Guardian)