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“Poetry writing is an immensely personal experience. Many people don't realize a poem is an extension of the poet. Such is the attachment that reading a poem may be interpreted as voyeuristic. Even if a poet practices to be published, for money, or does so in private - we do so for ourselves. We writ…”

— Sade Andria Zabala, Thought Of The Day

“Few [of Big Media] will want to acknowledge the competitiveness of ‘less valuable’ content (this claim has been at the core of pitches to marketers and ad agencies, after all), let alone subject themselves to risk of unmanaged content adjacency (‘what if the next recommendation doesn’t align with ou…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW THE CONTENT EXPLOSION WILL INVERT THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

“Ted, I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck…”

— Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“The most successful curators will even begin commissioning content themselves. In many ways, the programmer-to-curator shift will appear to come full-circle. But the distinction is critical. Traditional creatives (though talented) gained cultural influence through their connection to insiders and ac…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW THE CONTENT EXPLOSION WILL INVERT THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

“[T]he common review mechanisms found across the web mathematically soften taste out to the average. This works a lot of the time, but we tend to have very particular tastes in certain categories – and there is a certain staleness created by narrowing these averages down using look-a-like groups and…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW THE CONTENT EXPLOSION WILL INVERT THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

“[T]his shift has swung the balance of power from programmers with the ability to greenlight content to curators with the ability to get that content heard, seen or read.”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW THE CONTENT EXPLOSION WILL INVERT THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

“This metamorphosis is about far more than ever increasing amounts of content and a handful of stars existing outside the traditional media ecosystem. The entire media business is inverting. For decades, scarce capital and constrained distribution capacity meant that the media’s industry bottlenecks…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW THE CONTENT EXPLOSION WILL INVERT THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

“While the media business benefited from many of these changes, the consequences have been fundamentally destabilizing. The television industry has experienced such a surge in original content that annual cancellation rates have quintupled over the past 15 years (twice as many original scripted serie…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AGE OF ABUNDANCE: HOW THE CONTENT EXPLOSION WILL INVERT THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

“Lodash and Underscore are great modern JavaScript utility libraries, and they are widely used by Front-end developers. However, when you are targeting modern browsers, you may find out that there are many methods which are already supported natively thanks to ECMAScript5 [ES5] and ECMAScript2015 [ES…”

— cht8687, You don't need Lodash Underscore

“Magazines deliver by far the best return on ad spending when compared to TV, digital display and video, mobile and cross-media campaigns, according to a study set to be presented today by Nielsen Catalina Solutions at the Advertising Research Foundation Audience Measurement 2016 Conference in New Yo…”

— Jeff Neff, Sweeping CPG Study Finds Magazines Deliver Biggest Bang for Buck, Digital Video Lags

“Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

— Robert Heinlein, Stranger In A Strange Land

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

— Maya Angelou, goodreads.com

“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”

— Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ...is to press play.”

— Jay Asher, 13 Reasons Why

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“In a society that values the freedom to believe or not believe and to wear what you want, this change in behaviour has been accelerated in the last few months. More and more Muslim women are telling us that this change is primarily due to feelings of insecurity and from repeated comments, statements…”

— TELLMAMA, Some Muslim Women Are Taking Off Their Hijabs

“Just say yes. There's nothing holding you back.”

— Zoe Sugg, Girl Online: The First Novel by Zoella

“You are an independent mind in this universe that can do everything and anything you have ever dreamed of.”

— Dan Howell, The Amazing Book Is Not on Fire: The World of Dan and Phil

“As it turns out, that feeling of being lost or listless or never achieving your potential doesn't contain itself within any certain decade of life; it just lives in you until you learn how to cope with it or let it go.”

— Hannah Hart, My Drunk Kitchen: A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut

“Surround yourself with people who are the ketchup to your french fries-they make you a better version of yourself. Yes french fries are amazing on their own, but combined with ketchup they are a force. Spend time with people who bring out your true flavors, but don't overpower you.”

— Grace Helbig, Grace's Guide: The Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-Up