Doing Things

Some good advice posted on the wall at the headquarters of mobile app maker Flipboard in Palo, Alto, Calif. I captured it on Instagram during my visit to Flipboard's space-challenged office today.

The place was overflowing with computer programmers "doing things" to enhance and improve the company's breakout social magazine app for the iPhone and iPad. It's in refreshing contrast to most company mottos: "talk about things endlessly."

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Matt Berger is the digital director at Marketplace.

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