It makes genius accessible, rather than simply awesome, and conveys a touching portrait of the artist himself: as a man who forged close friendships with women and painted cut flowers with tender yet vibrant precision, even on his deathbed.
It is an irony, though, that his adopted country is the one place in the developed world where the neoDarwinian explanations that he and his colleagues created are not the commonplace of the schoolbooks, and where many people prefer to cling to the campfire tales of Genesis, rather than face the awesome thesis that Mr Mayr helped to elucidate.
With Native American cultures inspiring and influencing the broader fashion industry these days (you can see it splattered all over fashion magazines and catalogues), I think it's time we start including actual Native American artists in this movement, rather than just our awesome inspiring culture.
And before you start going "BUT WHERE THE HECK IS GOLDENEYE??!!!" the makers of the vid have limited it to one game per year (you can see the full list here, but it's all in French so have your Google Translate skills handy)—and dealt with games that made leaps and jumps in computer graphics rather than just being awesome games.
Lay out the facts and numbers rather than talk about how awesome you are.
"Here, there's massive explosions of stuff coming together in new ways that are completely awesome, rather than just incremental improvements," Roth says.
Rather than allow you to mix awesome electro-house beats with clips of Rosie on The View, it's actually a movie-editor for publishers.
"Pusher is built for a generation of developers who will spend their time making awesome apps rather than configuring infrastructure", said Adam Wiggins, Heroku co-founder and Pusher investor.
Be careful not to punish or drive away the friends who are willing to do both of these things for you, rather than just tell you how awesome you are all the time.
