“The most important and intrinsically most evident source of consumer demand is the advertising and salesmanship of those providing the product. First you make the good, then you make the market…A broad empirical relationship exists between what is spent on production of consumer goods and what is spent in synthesizing the desires for that production. None of this is novel. All would be regarded as elementary by the most retarded student in the nation’s most primitive school of business administration.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

That’s one way of saying it.

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First you make the good, then you make the market… is a post from: Simonds Media

Second, I think it’s especially easy to forget just what we’re all trying to do here. Namely, to improve the lives of a few people and make online interactions more elegant and straightforward for the rest.

I won’t get into whether beauty is a use in itself or not, but I’m certain that we could all use more happiness. Norman added a bit of the stuff to my day. I hope you find his presentation enjoyable as well!

Thanks to @joshuacc for the heads up on the video & Jordan Fischer for the thumbnail.

3 Ways Good Design Makes You Happy – Don Norman is a post from: Simonds Media

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and the people that love me. And I went, as I had begun to do, into a wormhole of selfishness, and greediness, and arrogance in thinking that if I would just continue to be speedy and witty and pull together as many fast words and phrases that I could.

That I could be clever enough to buy myself another day without thinking that anybody would find me, pin me down, and say, “you’re a creep.”

When I should have just given that up and played the guitar a little more, I didn’t. So I decided that I’d try to be as clever as possible all the time. And I did that at the expense of people I love, and that feels absolutely terrible. It feels worse than any headline I thought I could get out of.

It’s just not worth being clever. I just quit. I quit the sound bite game, I quite the media game. I’m out. I’m done. I just want to play my guitar to whoever is around. If that means there’s less people because I somehow think that if I’m not witty and I don’t come up with the newest little clever thing, then that’s fine. I just want to play my guitar again with this band.

Are you trying too hard to be clever?

John Mayer and The Quest To Be Clever is a post from: Simonds Media

An example of a headline and lead image working together. You’re welcome to use them if you like. Just be sure to let me know what you come up with!

Twenty Years After Harry Met Sally is a post from: Simonds Media