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Apple’s 2012 Proxy Statement

In a world where the likes of Steve Ballmer and many others routinely sell huge portions of their shares, Jobs kept all of his. $2,319,515,000 worth, as Dustin Curtis points out.

That’s dedication and loyalty. That’s putting your money where your mouth is.

npr:

Artisanal And Authentic, The Flavors Of The New Year

The word on the 2012 food scene is the opposite of processed, mass produced and factory farmed. Weekend Edition food commentator Bonny Wolf sifts through the tea leaves for clues to what you’ll be eating in the year ahead.

Sounds great to me!

Work hard stay humble.

macaframasf:

Non-Bike Related:

Really good Vibes in the video! Very Humble dude!

Consider that Amazon are growing at 30% a year and adding a further 3 new fulfilment warehouses to the UK in 2011. How many will it be in 2012? 5? 10? 

Its seams pretty inevitable that Amazon will get to the point when they have enough fulfilment warehouses to cover same day deliveries to most areas of the UK right?

Now I don’t know about you but I can easily imagine seeing Amazon vehicles in every major town and city making there multiple daily deliveries. And when I can buy the things I dont like buying but need to buy, and buy them for the same price or less and have them delivered that same day… that’s going to change the way I shop.

And much like the years surrounding the world wars the high street wont be filled with shops that sell rubbish and have poor customer service but instead will be filled with people that are focused on not only your overall experience but also on your relationship to that company and that store. 

It pretty clear that most people and businesses are just getting comfortable with the internet’s lively injection into our lives over the past 10 years but I think the next 10 years might just be the most exciting. When the internet and its diverse array of offerings is available both in one click (mobile payments) and can be delivered the same day… that’s going to make huge ripples to the way a lot of people shop. 

Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…

Three topics I like, cycling, computers, Steve Jobs.

jpmilk:

As the space is concern, I hate cars. But as for transport time any option is feasible, but I would still rather take my bike over the bus and car.

— The View - Looking To The Future Of Media | Raedar (via mediafuturist)

Well said!

stoweboyd:

Paypal’s Future of Shopping video: more like the future of money.

Looks good, will be interesting to see how they make a service like this competitively priced/ cheap enough for every day use. Also I don’t think PayPal will grasp quite the monopoly the video makes out, more likely is that you’ll be able to do all those things with any bank, payment system etc. NFC ftw.

curiositycounts:

Google and Carnegie Mellon researchers team up on cloud-powered facial recognition that would enable you to take a photo of a complete stranger and track their real identity in mere minutes

Very interesting indeed.

— Twitter Just Got the Respect it Deserves (via mediafuturist)

r-e-on-a:

best video ever.

“Sleep is for people that are broke” That needs to be a tshirt! Some motivational words right here.

The UN’s first ever report on the state of childhood in the industrialized West made unpleasant reading for many of the world’s richest nations. But none found it quite so hard to swallow as the Brits, who, old jokes about English cooking aside, discovered that they were eating their own young.

According to the Unicef report, which measured 40 indicators of quality of life – including the strength of relationships with friends and family, educational achievements and personal aspirations, and exposure to drinking, drug taking and other risky behavior – British children have the most miserable upbringing in the developed world. American children come next, second from the bottom.

Makes for a very interesting read!