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Hi, I'm Matthias. I work at Intuity Media Lab where I'm handcrafting interfaces and helping others to shape new ideas. I enjoy music, tinkering with web stuff, nonsense and people that don't take life seriously. You can talk to me on Twitter. This tank is full of random things I stumble across and enjoy. Stay hungry, stay foolish - never settle.

16.06.2013

“Zeitgewinn ist mir grundsätzlich kein Anliegen.”

– Gerhard Polt

12.06.2013

Not staring at a screen. Wasting time. Focussing on something for a longer period of time. These are the luxuries of our times.

10.06.2013

“I’m willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”

– Edward Snowden
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

07.06.2013

(Source: bubblewrench, via analogyourlife)

06.06.2013

emmylovestrees:

iliketowatchyoureleaseyourdemons:

Wow

I am really glad this got so many notes (300 is a lot for me lol)…. but not because I want the notes or whatever but because when I saw this comic it made me feel really weird and sad inside and I thought that I wanted a lot of people to see it too

it makes a point thats really difficult to explain with words in such an artful way and it’s not something I thought about much

(via nathanmcquary)

05.06.2013

“And guesthouse is code for a series of palaces decorated with cold marble, silver-braided bedspreads, ice purple paintings of kimilsungia blossoms, and ceilings airbrushed with the cran-apple mist of sunset, as if Liberace’s jet had crashed into Lenin’s tomb.”

– Interview with Kim Jong Il’s former sushi chef http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201306/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson-2013

02.06.2013

Plug Versus Pump — The Tesla Collection by Steven Berlin Johnson

I agree with most of the points but I see one problem here: Yes, due to their ‘limited’ range EVs are especially interesting in cities. But the charge-at-home ritual is difficult to achieve in these areas as one has to own a garage. So therefore car sharing models (e.g. car2go) with charging stations seem like a better fit for big cities to me. They also address the more general problem of cars never being used to their full capacity in these places.

Anyway that certainly is not the kind of market that Tesla is targeting at and the new Supercharger Stations Concept by Tesla seems very impressive.

02.06.2013

geometrydaily:

#433 We come in peace – A new minimal geometric composition each day

geometrydaily:

#433 We come in peace – A new minimal geometric composition each day

02.06.2013

“What Lockheed Martin was to the 20th century,” they tell us, “technology and cybersecurity companies will be to the 21st.” Without even understanding how, they have updated and seamlessly implemented George Orwell’s prophecy. If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-backed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces — forever.”

Julian Assange writing about the new book by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen on nytimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-banality-of-googles-dont-be-evil.html

26.05.2013

Find the flamingo… @ Amsterdam Central Station

Find the flamingo… @ Amsterdam Central Station

21.05.2013

The One-Person Product

dhotson:

Tumblr has come a long way… I truly wish them all the best.

:’-)

19.05.2013

Beautiful chaos

Beautiful chaos

16.05.2013

Amazon Staff Meetings: “No Powerpoint” | Moving People to Action

patrickrhone:

Staff meetings at Amazon begin with 30 minutes of silent reading.

(via)

15.05.2013

“As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product. It’s to build a great team that makes great products. You are who you hire.

You are a founder, which means each word you say lands like an anvil. Even in a very small company, and especially in a larger one, it takes fortitude and courage for a team member to honestly critique your work.”

– Aza Raskin on Psychological Pitfalls And Lessons of A Designer-Founder

14.05.2013

“It’s peer respect that drives us. That’s the one thing that makes us do what we do.”

Rodney Mullen @ TED on Skateboarding and OpenSource

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