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Oliver Reichenstein @iA Tokyo, Zurich

Designer, Founder of iA Inc. and @iAWriter. Erring in the no man's land between philosophy and design.

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Roger Federer William Tell http://t.co/WfUnnfDq93 #goodnightI'm doing my first @reddit AMA (AskMeAnything) in about 30min. Looking forward to your questions! Here's the link: http://t.co/SRQORtvBB5
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@e_althaus @treimannch Hehe.@e_althaus Very very sweet stuff."Physical injury" from fonts? http://t.co/mdPkdFZl2jWow, this must have taken ages: a CSS Tube Map, created by @johngalantini85: http://t.co/EopDYAQw3G
Retweeted by Oliver ReichensteinNikola Tesla Pitching Silicon Valley VCs https://t.co/3Tjz6HzN1R via @gridinocPlease, please, stop putting a footer with links I need on sites with infinite scroll. PLEASE.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@mkruz Yeah. The stuttering terror of realizing "That thing I thought I just did… was…16 years ago." Yes… I went to Uni… 22 y-y-years ago…@faisalchaudryuk Good to hear. I have already a big update to it. I've overlooked something in the form/function graph.
5/25
2013
Banksy doesn't like advertisement: https://t.co/E2ze5hy35H@datenkind I meant poff.Murakami: “My books exist in their original Japanese. That’s what’s most important, because that’s how I wrote them.” http://t.co/OQYRHXyFiwHow to make your own colour fonts like «Apple Color Emoji» → http://t.co/7YlFTPubnY
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@velorg Isn't that what everyone is doing with Apple? :)This explains it with an infographic: "Understanding How Dilution Affects You At A Startup" http://t.co/dXeqqA8api via @papadimitriouThis is completely confusing, if you're not a finance guy: "Employee Equity: Dilution" http://t.co/NInf32H1Xn@aten Will follow up. There is a great disparity of opinions from what I hear from people with direct experience with VC.@aten I don't know enough on the matter to have a clear opinion and I try to not pretend to know what I don't know—can I reach you via mail?@aten What I hear first hand is that starting with VC often puts you under so much growth pressure to get the next round that you lose sight@aten I'm saying that not being forced is not an argument if young entrepreneurs are not aware what they are getting into.@fukumimi Great. Will follow up.@aten 2. is not really an argument, since no one is "forced" into a regular pyramid scheme either (but rather cheated into).@fukumimi Ah I misread "recent investors" for "early investors". Can I prepare a mail with a couple of questions? To complex for Twitter.@fukumimi This is amazing information. Would you be interested in a guest interview on http://t.co/UHKrAJNJNi?@fukumimi And how is that different from a pyramid scheme?@aten What are the mistakes? I don't know enough first hand to fully judge. All I hear from people inside is "Stay out if you can!"@maguay Thanks, but it's yet another free update.@maguay We'll see…@fukumimi What happens to (the majority of) companies with lots of investment and moderate success? Do they pay off their debts over years?@maguay Both Mac and iOS are very close to a bigger .x release. Web: just an online demo of the apps—not convinced about writing in browser.If I get a 1 Million in round A, 3 in B, and 10 in C, and every preceding round gets paid out with profit—that's a pyramid scheme, right?Almost no one ever talks about tech venture capital's pyramid schemes. Scared to be excluded from the honeypot? http://t.co/3xWCZoPvfsIs Apple killing the iPod? (Did you notice the new Apple sound (poff) at the end of the ad, when the logo pops up?) http://t.co/cK3ZHGHucdNickel I found a nickel on the ground, picked it up, read the date & put it down. I hated 1983.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@raphaelschaad That's right. It seems cool to push the limits of sleep and booze until you get your first heart attack with 45."Calligraphy by Japanese porn star Sola Aoi has sparked a culture war in China." http://t.co/XpERyjUHXP via @tokyoreporter@raphaelschaad Long hours are fine. Once in a while. On a regular basis, they are simply unprofessional—damaging health and work quality."50 Shades of White: The Colors of the Internet" http://t.co/wjOMvwzjXLMono wheels look like a motor bikes from the far future: http://t.co/xwOrWVcTl0@IvanBajic Happy you liked it.
5/24
2013
@EvanRoper Cynicism/irony can be extremely hard to deal with as it uses negativity to make an opposite point right from the start.@drazendrnas Thank you. I still suck big time at openings. Have to get rid of the idea of an "introduction" and just start.@remi_guyot By the way: that self assessment is not "General quality" but "How well I think I should be able to perform".@remi_guyot In Lisbon (my guess 7/10) someone said "I could feel your angst". Sensitive people feel what the speaker feels and vice versa.@remi_guyot I've learned to trust my gut feeling over how it went—response is getting better+better but I'm getting stricter with myself too@EvanRoper I can't really condense it just yet. Negative feedback helps no matter how negative, yet directly engaging is detrimental.@EvanRoper I came to think about it when I started to look at design feedback as an engineer and not as a "master".@remi_guyot My impression looking at how comfortable I felt and looking at faces in the audience.@wblau @iA however, obsessing over the terrorists, seeing their faces day-in-day-out, making them famous, creates terrorist role models.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@wblau @iA irrelevant. Images/video will appear on the internet whether journalists officially publish them or not.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@ninastoessinger I'll be doing it again. Will finish writing an extensive post on it. There is a small interview coming out later today too.First speech fully dedicated to "Dealing with negativity". Went so-so. I'd give it a 6/10. Some misunderstandings. It's quite a labyrinth.The dilemma: Is it inevitable that by reporting about terror, with images or without, we serve terror's purpose? http://t.co/RlhaOyNXET
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@Rerun_van_Pelt Try this: http://t.co/8yjiqsRv5V@P45C4L Exactly my thoughts.Infographic: smartphone penetration vs OS installed per country/region. http://t.co/9frrkiKEOd"I thought I had better start talking to him before he starts attacking somebody else." This woman: stunningly brave. http://t.co/u4w1Zc9HnX
Retweeted by Oliver ReichensteinOH slip of the tongue at a startup event: "entreprenerds" #shiftsplitDear people who make ebooks: Paragraph indents or space between paragraphs. Choose one. Not both, please. It looks stupid and redundant.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichensteinthe big elephant in the room is reading - nobody (as in: not one soul) i know has read the snowfall text in its entirety.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichensteineveryone secretly hates "snowfall": http://t.co/0yD8TMyhWC 1) relax, why hate a template 2) article makes a few good points, worth reading
Retweeted by Oliver ReichensteinWhoever put all New York magazines up to 1997 online, I love and hate you. http://t.co/p5f17XCSjY #FontIDparadise
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@cramer @schneidertobias Yeah.@AisleOne This is seriously what I thought when I saw it. 'Hm. Texan. Like that guy in that David Lynch movie. "MY DOG… IS ALWAYS WITH ME."'@AisleOne How those uppercase italic headlines might sound to a typographically hypersensitive person: http://t.co/9NbdxjPOZZ ;-)@iA Reads better—and looks better—without the text-transform http://t.co/tlL1pqlTSV
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@royveldkamp Ah. That's why it feels so old fashioned...@iA Well, the circular portrait trend goes way back... http://t.co/VkBGMGX5aj
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@iA True! They had it like this at least since 2004… http://t.co/fEoUl35Zcd Fun fact: Nowadays’ pics are rectangular with rounded borders.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@dbushell @iA Probably all thanks to Path.
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@web_martin Thought so too. The profile pictures, right? But I think Apple had their manager pictures like that on their site before that.It looks pretty, but those headlines in uppercase italics read badly and speak with a torn loud voice: http://t.co/P3E6tpm8Pu@dbushell Ah, now I get it. As so often, advances in technology lead to a graphic trend. Like bevels and fades etc...@iA I'd guess the ability to crop square images with CSS has become easier in recent years, that and a hit app probably started a trend
Retweeted by Oliver Reichenstein@davidboni …like, before it was trendy? ;-)@madeby I'm not pissed at Microsoft or Adobe. I don't really care about them either. But Apple, I still care, which is why I tell them, too.@madeby To be clear: I don't care. If I were their business consultant, which I am not, I'd advise strongly against that.@madeby Console games. I don't sell consoles and I don't sell games. This is a massive change. And if I still played, I'd be pissed.@dbushell Didn't realize it was a trend until today where circular cutouts popup everywhere and I started asking myself: What does it mean?@madeby Because I find it interesting that Microsoft changes the way console games are sold. And the gif *is* efficient explaining it.@madeby What *is* funny: you say: I am blaming Microsoft (which I didn't), for what I do (which I don't), cause you dislike a gif I posted.@madeby Isn't negativity, accusations, blaming people generally a form of unreflected self mirroring? And what would that mean in your case?Circular pictures are definitely trendy now. In 6 months they are probably going to look like those glossy buttons.@madeby There are counter opinions to every opinion—some are more, some are less substantial. But everybody is always somewhat right.The New XBox, uhm, One: http://t.co/CnKStB9yVi@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell That was not funny. More like this: http://t.co/ivDPQhV1NT@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell But to know, you need to find those grains of truth, the narrative, the agenda. That takes ZEN monk nerves.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell Try to understand their POV until you are certain whether it's just different, bs, crazy or criminal.@ThomasBasboell @ShieldsAndrew As for post modernism and analytic philosophy. The late Foucault and the late Wittgenstein are cousins.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell As far as I know ridiculing misinformation without addressing it directly is the best weapon in such cases.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell To get back to the subject: Fighting misinformation will strengthen it. Letting it be can be dangerous too.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell Yeah. Kicking people in the balls doesn't solve problems. Putting Hitler in prison made him write Mein Kampf.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell Yeah. Philosophy cannot solve all of humanities problems. Maybe in that case a kick in the balls is better.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell Yes. But the trick is: To really neutralise him, you should try to try to fully understand him first.
5/23
2013
@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell What I mean by WT is the spirit of negotiating truth vs a spirit of letting be as in Japanese Zen Buddhism.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell …sure. And Rimbaud wrote poetry without using any "Western thought." We're deviating.@ShieldsAndrew @ThomasBasboell Without any doubt dialectic is efficient when it comes to scientific progress. But reality > science.@ThomasBasboell @ShieldsAndrew Western thought believes in synthesis. It believes that negotiation always improves an argument. What if…@bobbyjgeorge I guess the trick is to be really short and get quickly to the point with lots of clear arguments and raise a strong question.
5/22
2013
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