Sébastien Rothlisberger

Beautiful clock

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:54:18 -0500

Beautiful clock

Taken with instagram

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:48:22 -0500

Taken with instagram

#abstract (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:52:36 -0500

#abstract (Taken with instagram)

"Building a startup is a marathon, not a sprint."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:42:13 -0500

“Building a startup is a marathon, not a sprint.”

- The importance of sleep in a startup « Startup Marketing Lessons Learnt

"Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of..."

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:15:38 -0500

“Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

- Albert Einstein

Audio

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:07:37 -0500

"A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense"

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:27:42 -0500

“A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense”

- Bruno Munari

Noah Stokes | Es Bueno: Thirty Five

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:08:08 -0500

Noah Stokes | Es Bueno: Thirty Five:

esbueno:

Disconnecting helps you to really connect.

"The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius."

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:12:23 -0500

“The guy who invented the wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.”

- Sid Caesar

Don't Just Declutter, De-Own. | Becoming Minimalist

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:15:26 -0500

Don't Just Declutter, De-Own. | Becoming Minimalist:

simplifyyourlife:

I just couldn’t help but share this. A good read as we start 2012. -Danny

“Owning less is far more beneficial than organizing more.” -Joshua Becker

Black Circle from Kasimir Malevich, 1913

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:20:04 -0500

Black Circle from Kasimir Malevich, 1913

"Saying no is actually saying yes to other things."

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:23:00 -0500

“Saying no is actually saying yes to other things.”

- Patrick Rhone | Things I’ve Learned This Year

"Life always shows you the face that you show to life."

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:13:26 -0500

“Life always shows you the face that you show to life.”

- K. O. Schmidt

What science tells us about Apple customers' loyalty.

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:01:00 -0500

I just stumble upon a motivation theory called “Affect Perseverance”. It strike me as a very good explanation of why Apple’s customers are so loyal.

Affect Perseverance occurs where an emotional preference continues, even after the thoughts that gave rise to the original emotion are invalidated.

Feelings are often independent of facts and evidence, and once initiated tend to take on a life of their own. Almost by definition, they are not rational.

I’m not saying that Apple is being abusive and all, but Apple makes sometimes mistakes or bad product/service (e.g. MobileMe). Its customers, including me, complain less or accept it more easily than any other’s customer.

Despite this change in cognition, the affective preference persevered.

The article even tells how to produce that effect:

To get someone emotionally engaged with an item or topic, start with some rational purpose that makes sense to them. Then, when the emotions are established, slowly ignore and remove the rationale. Reinforce the emotion as its own justification.

Interesting read: Affect Perseverance on ChangingMinds.org

"There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:02:41 -0500

“There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.”

- Jackie French Koller

"Pastore’s hypothesis can account for the finding that unfavorable impressions are more..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:08:00 -0500

“Pastore’s hypothesis can account for the finding that unfavorable impressions are more difficult to change than favorable ones, but It does not explain why negative characteristics should be perceived as more deeply rooted in the personality than positive characteristics The explanation may be found in norm expectations. In our culture, social norms specify positive behavior. When a person exhibits positive, favorable attributes or behaviors, he is merely doing what is expected of him and thus merits no special approbation or approval. The locus of causality may be perceived as being either in the person or in the environment (i.e. the society). Favorable information about a person thus provides only ambiguous evidence concerning his personality. The resulting impression should therefore be relatively unstable and susceptible to change. Negative behaviors, on the other hand, cannot readily be attributed to social forces, and hence unfavorable information provides more unambiguous evidence about the individual’s personality. The resulting impression is therefore more stable and less susceptible to change.”

- Briscoe, M. E., Woodyard, H. D. and Shaw, M. E. (1967), Personality impression change as a function of the favorableness of first impressions. Journal of Personality, 35: 343–357. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1967.tb01433.x

View on downtown Montreal.

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:39:23 -0500

View on downtown Montreal.

"Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often (if not always) expect that a new..."

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:01:00 -0500

“Even if all these needs are satisfied, we may still often (if not always) expect that a new discontent and restlessness will soon develop, unless the individual is doing what he is fitted for. A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.”

- A Theory of Human Motivation, by A. H. Maslow

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its..."

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:46:00 -0500

“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

- Albert Einstein

Just beautiful!

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:38:28 -0500

Just beautiful!