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The New Yorker: Shouts & Murmurs: The Collected Letters of Marissa Mayer and David Karp

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My darling David,

Don’t let these earthly considerations stand in the way of our relationship. Getting to know Tumblr has been the biggest joy of my life. I have never felt so young, so alive, so full of hope for the future as when I am watching your metrics rise exponentially each day.

Oh, I…

A hilarious faux email exchange between David Karp and Marissa Mayer on the Tumblr and Yahoo merger from The New Yorker.

Read more on why so many partnerships end in disaster on OPEN Forum.

There’s No Place Like Work!

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Bob Mankoff tested Yahoo C.E.O. Marissa Mayer’s policy of banning working from home by convening all of our cartoonists together in the office. It didn’t really work out: http://nyr.kr/YAQpNH

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newyorker: Cartoon by Peter C. Vey. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WUPvLj Office hierarchy per usual.

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Cartoon by Peter C. Vey. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/WUPvLj

Office hierarchy per usual.

“A daydream, in this sense, is just a means of eavesdropping on those novel thoughts generated by the unconscious. We think we’re wasting time, but, actually, an intellectual fountain really is spurting.” Jonah Lehrer dives into the virtues of letting your mind wander, and why psychologists and neuroscientists have recently deemed a seemingly useless activity as a valuable cognitive tool. Photo credit: Stockbyte/Thinkstock (via Why Daydreaming Makes You Smarter and More Creative : The New Yorker )

“A daydream, in this sense, is just a means of eavesdropping on those novel thoughts generated by the unconscious. We think we’re wasting time, but, actually, an intellectual fountain really is spurting.”

Jonah Lehrer dives into the virtues of letting your mind wander, and why psychologists and neuroscientists have recently deemed a seemingly useless activity as a valuable cognitive tool.

Photo credit: Stockbyte/Thinkstock

(via Why Daydreaming Makes You Smarter and More Creative : The New Yorker )

“Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.” Jonah Lehrer on the truth behind the brainstorming fad. (via Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker)

“Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It doesn’t work.”

Jonah Lehrer on the truth behind the brainstorming fad.

(via Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work : The New Yorker)

Streaming Dreams

YouTube was created by three former employees of PayPal, in a Silicon Valley garage, in early 2005. According to two of the founders, Chad Hurley and Steven Chen, a graphic designer and a software engineer, respectively, the idea grew out of a dinner party at Chen’s home in San Francisco, in the winter of 2004-05. Guests had made videos of one another, but they couldn’t share them easily. The founders envisioned a video version of Flickr, a popular photo-sharing site. All the content on the site would be user-generated: “Real personal clips that are taken by everyday people,” as Hurley described his vision.

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