things i find

It’s not going to be easy, and no one’s going to give it to you.

Couldn’t find a good visual of a B2C user acq funnel for a digital product, so I made one. (Taken with instagram)

Writer’s block? Get a fountain pen. Everything is better in ink strewn across paper. (Taken with instagram)

“You are the average of the five people you spend most time with.”

– Jim Rohn

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.”

– Mignon McLaughlin, Neurotic’s Notebook (1981).

She’s attributed a swath of fantastic, witty, social quotes. I’d post them all here were doing so not diminishing of the individual impact of each. Find more here.

Pretty striking.

This is the Torre Velasca building in Milan. It was designed in the 1950s and built by 1956. Modern and ~100m tall, the tower sticks out in the city’s skyline. Cool confluence of brutalism and, more specifically, inspiration from old italian castles.

(Source: fuckjerry)

Love this –

Lytro had great packaging. Love the note on the fine print. (Taken with instagram)

Facebook hoodies. Subtle outside, badass inside.

(Source: black-leather)

Facts about JP Morgan

marginalrevolution:

The banking unit of JPMorgan Chase alone made $12.4 billion last year. The holding company has over $2.26 trillion in assets and is the largest U.S. bank and 8th largest in the world. The holding company made $29.9 billion in operating income and just over $20 billion in net income for 2011.

So, this initial loss of $800M [TC: with more to come] represents approximately 4% of its total net profit for all of 2011, less than 2.7% of its operating income. Certainly it’s not a good thing. But the reported losses, in and of themselves, are not likely to have a dramatic impact on JPMorgan’s long-term financial stability.

Here is more, hat tip to Angus as well. A $2 billion loss is about one percent of their equity and about 0.1$ of their assets.

from Marginal Revolution: http://bit.ly/JrOu7L