Tac Anderson

Social media anthropologist. Communications strategist. Business model junkie. Director of Digital Strategies, Waggener Edstrom.
Change Agents Still Have To Deliver Results Eventually though, if you’re not able to deliver something tangible from all of this change, people will start to realize that you don’t actually do anything. Talk of change, and plans for change, don’t mean anything unless something new and stable emerges from the chaos, you will have only managed to... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
Advice For Entrepreneurs Working At Big Companies Entrepreneurs, turned intrepreneurs have to be able to give up some of their ego. They have to face the people pushing back on their ideas, put themselves in their shoes and understand what it is that they’re afraid of. They need to understand what’s going to motivate those people. What’s going to... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
The 10 Types of Fictional Apocalypses (And What They Mean) Pretty much all apocalyptic scenarios are about wish-fulfillment on some level, even as they also explore our deepest fears. We all fantasize about being among the rugged handful of survivors, who immediately become the most special people in the world purely by virtue of still being... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
Productivity Is The Enemy of Creativity | A Contrarian’s Guide Everyday you go to the same place to work, in the same environment. You see the same people and you are surrounded by the same sensory inputs (beige). And you usually have to solve the same, or similar, problem over and over again. Your company makes most of its money selling the... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
There Is No Such Thing As A Failed Entrepreneur To me being an entrepreneur is binary. You are either an entrepreneur or you aren’t. You either started or took ownership of something, or you didn’t. Thinking about starting something, doesn’t make you an entrepreneur. Your startup might (probably will) fail gloriously, but you are still an... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
There Is No Such Thing As A Failed Entrepreneur | Tac Anderson | LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/today...
Steven Brust's "Hawk" - a new Vlad Taltos book! - Boing Boing - http://boingboing.net/2014...
Plugged In: My Month-Long Mission To Beat The Effects Of Technology With More Technology Adding another charging cord to my desk isn’t ideal, and I already have a small collection of wearable devices that I abandoned days or weeks after purchase. This is the biggest problem with the future of tech IMO, and why mobile phones are so useful. Fewer... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
Welcome to The Contrarian’s Guide | A Contrarian's Guide - http://contrariansguide.com/2014...
A Washington Post magazine-style Kindle app sounds like a win for the paper and Amazon — Tech News and Analysis - https://gigaom.com/2014...
An Immigrant Experience | TechCrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2014...
An Adventure in Words: Quick, where is the anti-repellent? - http://susanmaywordadventures....
Welcome to The Contrarian’s Guide The last 10 years have been crazy for me (for most everyone really). But personally and professionally, I could never have predicted or planned how the last 10 years have gone. I’ve learned a lot, and lately I’ve felt a desire to return to blogging (and yes that includes my random Lego pictures). I stopped... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
How Successful People Stay Calm - Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/sites...
This earpiece concept would tune out the yapping o - http://t.co/Z8FAuvk285
What Soft Skills Do Employers Value Most? [Infographic] - http://nblo.gs/10hxoB
You had one job on Twitter: "How times have changed. http://t.co/aAUUYOj...; - https://twitter.com/_youhad...
Ronald Jonkers on Twitter: "Dammit, macbook isn't pocket proof too! :( #bendgate http://t.co/fdssHo2...; - https://twitter.com/roon82...
History In Pictures on Twitter: "You're Americans. Act like it! http://t.co/CA0Ef9L...; - https://twitter.com/History...
TJ Son Of Ander, Blanket fort. - http://tanderson.tumblr.com/post...
safekeeping - The best piece of productivity advice I ever... - http://mikerugnetta.tumblr.com/post...
Much of the poor research out there is the product... - Inline, Online, Off - http://gigidowns.com/post...
The dark side of drones: Chris Anderson address privacy concerns “It will be our job to keep the jackasses from doing stupid stuff,” said Chris Anderson, the CEO of 3D Robotics. “We can’t stop them, but we can let them know what the rules are.” I imagine Chris making airplane dive-bombing noises in this picture.  - http://tacanderson.com/post...
DesignCultureMind — 'See Hear Party' Wins the Internet!!! Web app by... - http://designculturemind.tumblr.com/post...
Anne Aretz — Because if you tasted some food that you didn’t... - http://annearetz.com/post...
The Wrist Of The Story: A Brief History Of Forgotten Proto-Smartwatches, 1975-2004 For all the attention they got, most of these devices didn’t sell in vast quantities. Many were commercial failures by any definition. The moral of some of the devices you’re about to get acquainted with is, basically, that just because you can build something into... - http://tacanderson.com/post...
Fast Company, fastcodesign: 4 Wearables That Give You... - http://blog.fastcompany.com/post...
Syed Lagoon's UX blog | leseanthomas: John Oliver, Ladies and gents. - http://syedlagoonux.tumblr.com/post...