Video of Eric Ries sharing the importance of “the pivot” in business.

From Fast Company’s new series “The Pivot”:

During the course of his entrepreneurial adventures, he realized that some of the most iconic companies of our time—Twitter, YouTube, Groupon—had abruptly changed course before they achieved success.

Glen Hansard - “Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting” (Album Rhythm and Repose is set for a June 19 release date)

Dr. Dee, an opera by Damon Albarn, will be released as an album on May 8th. Here’s the first single, sung by Damon himself. I need my fix of his voice now and then. This took care of that. I’m good now…

“The Idolatry of Youth Culture in Worship” released by The Gospel Coalition with Mike Cosper, Kevin Twit, Isaac Wardell.

My brother-in-law, Chad Larsen, rewrote the lyrics to Adele’s “Someone Like You,” imagining fat Jonah Hill speaking to skinny Jonah Hill. We put a quick video together and uploaded it to FunnyorDie.com in honor of the release of 21 Jump Street today.

Via Mashable.com

Former Kodak CMO Jeff Hayzlett speaks with Bryan Elliott on Behind the Brand about what it takes to engage audiences, and how to explain to those number crunchers that social is valuable. For one, he said talking about return on investment is over-hyped.

I say to them, ‘What’s your return on ignoring?’” Hayzlett said. “If you’re engaged with your customers, and you have an operation that is doing what it’s supposed to be doing, then you’re going to make money.

From the Kickstarter page:

I was on my boss Emmylou’s tour bus in 2008 when a really crazy TV preacher came on the satellite TV and caused me to wonder how to counterbalance this bad PR God continues to get from his own flock.

So, I came up with the simple idea of gathering together a few great musical artists singing songs written around the basic theme of “What If God Is Love?”

I mentioned it to Emmylou Harris, and she said, “I’m in”.  So did The Civil Wars. 

Via FastCompany.com

Readability lets you queue articles you find on the web into a “Reading List” that you can browse offline, on the comfort of your iPhone or iPad screen. Readability’s trademark burgundy-and-beige color scheme greets you upon starting up the app, presenting your saved articles in a warm, velvety, but never fussy interface that all but begs to be curled up with under a blanket with a cup of tea. 

Wow, that was cool! Ridley Scott’s TED “presentation.”

via FastCompany.com:

Audiences at the TED conference are used to hearing future-facing ideas, but Tuesday the privileged conference crowd got a preview of itself in 2023 and a new Ridley Scott film at the same time.

As a promo for Prometheus, Scott’s hotly anticipated sort-of-prequel to Alien, the film’s creators presented a video “Ted Talk” from 2023, delivered by Prometheus star, the always excellent Guy Pearce.