poptech:

13 Rules For Realizing Your Creative Vision

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

(via fastcompany)

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Do you smell what I smell? Robot scents your social networks

Imagine you get an email from a long-lost relative and the sweet smell of roses permeates the air. Or that cute grad student you met at the bookstore tweets about you and for a second you smell cinnamon and leather - swoon. That electronics-meets-olfactory moment is just what a little white robot named Olly is out to create. 

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socialinformer:

Lion, Uganda

Photo: Joel Sartore

A tree-climbing lion stires in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park.

OK. You win. 

poptech:

Image-wise: The many modes of moss graffiti 

(Image of Edina Tokodi graffiti via Inhabit)