These are the custom Moleskines I designed for Flickr. It was a bit tricky finding a debosser in the area (we didn’t), so if you’re interested in getting a custom Moleskine for your company, read on.
We bought the Moleskines on Amazon and shipped them directly to the debossers, C&S Printers in New Jersey. (They also debossed the Wordpress Moleskines).
A local company, Spotlight Design & Print, printed the wraps and shipped them to C&S for finishing. Edit: The artwork for the wrap comes from the Searcher’s amazing Rainbow Vomiting Pandas Of Interestingness, which he kindly agreed to let us use.
The whole process took about three weeks. The vendors were responsive, reasonably priced* and met their deadlines.
*They were reasonably priced for what we got, I mean. Neither Moleskines nor debossing is cheap.
It really bothers me that the definition of success has changed from profits to followers, friends, and feed count. This crap doesn’t mean anything. Kids are coming out of school thinking, I want to start the next YouTube or Facebook. If a restaurant served more food than everybody else but lost money on every diner, would it be successful? No. But on the Internet, for some reason, if you have more users than everyone else, you’re successful. No, you’re not.
The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals, in Inc Magazine
I wince a little inside quoting Fried, but this is pretty much exactly what I think every time anybody talks about how successful Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are. Popular, yes. Successful, as in they have succeeded? No.
innonate (via laurao)
Am I Fit for Startups?
Before I went to sleep a few nights ago, I sketched this out. It’s a test anyone has to pass before I want to work with them on a startup. When people pass the test, it makes me excited beyond belief. When someone doesn’t, I can care less about them. They’re furniture.
Is everybody either a potential coworker or furniture? I’m going to try this out for a day and see where it leads me.
