The Kanye Brain

How or What Yooeze Thinks

on work - David Carr, NYTimes

The now ancient routes to credibility at small magazines and newspapers — toiling in menial jobs while learning the business — have been wiped out, replaced by an algorithm of social media heat and blog traction. 

Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment, when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would soon not be part of it.

I once lost a job I dearly wanted because I had misspelled the name of the publisher of the publication I was about to go to work for. Not very smart, but I learned a brutal lesson that has stayed with me.

It may not have made a difference: journalists are tasked as seekers of truth. Fabulists find the truth quotidian and boring, insufficient to convey them to the renown they seek.

The now ancient routes to credibility at small magazines and newspapers — toiling in menial jobs while learning the business — have been wiped out, replaced by an algorithm of social media heat and blog traction. 
Every reporter who came up in legacy media can tell you about a come-to-Jesus moment, when an editor put them up against a wall and tattooed a message deep into their skull: show respect for the fundamentals of the craft, or you would soon not be part of it.
I once lost a job I dearly wanted because I had misspelled the name of the publisher of the publication I was about to go to work for. Not very smart, but I learned a brutal lesson that has stayed with me.
It may not have made a difference: journalists are tasked as seekers of truth. Fabulists find the truth quotidian and boring, insufficient to convey them to the renown they seek.

David Carr, The New York Times

Data Never Sleeps

From domo. sure this is already outdated..

WNYC Leonard Lopate Show Teaches Winning

This week's Leonard Lopate's show focused on The Neuroscience of Success and Failure - what happens in the brain when you win and lose. Really interesting. 

Professor and author of a newly published book called The Winner Effect: The Neuroscience of Success and Failure, Ian Robertson explained winning gerenates testosterone and dopamine in the brain for both men and women. And actually makes you more aggressive, more focused, increases cognitive function and can also make you less empathic.  We're told the difference between winning and losing is mental. Now we have the science behind the culture of winning begets winning.  It's physically mental. And you have to look for ways to get that create that momentum.

Roberston says ways to increase dopamine and testosterone are to do it naturally: exercise, the gym, running, or interacting with people. Maybe start with the small wins.  Robertson also says there are three fundament motivations we want to win: Power, Achievment,or Affection of People. They each come at winning from different directions.

It reminds of the psychologist in the film The Natural, where he tells the players, amassed in a losing streak that losing is a disease.  Today, while we know this is quasi-true. we can understand it better to help foster a culture and attitude of winning.

Kelly Clarkson's 'Stronger' puts losing on it's head, saying what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Perception, once more, is reality.

Miley Gives Meaning

Miley Cirus's 'See you Again' via Ramblings of the BK Grrl Genius.  

My Miley tune is Party in the USA.  It's also lively, but feels like it strikes a chord in me.  It brings up Chicago in me.  To me this tune is emotional.  It makes connection, meaning to experiences I've had in Chicago and New York.  It was a national hit that provided a texture to activity of life at the time.  Why not have a fun tune, that also did have meaningful lyrics.