July 2008
5 posts
Tarantino's Mind →
How Corporate Culture Creates Political Apathy...
mills:
[Apologies for the long political post, the last on this subject].
One of the defining aspects of youth is political indignation and perplexed incomprehension: how is that no one else sees the lies, sees the injustice, sees the opportunity to fix the world and wants to seize it? In America, this is an especially common lament: why are citizens so radically disengaged, so indifferent to...
marco:
The Facebook redesign seems to have missed two points:
Whitespace is good, but adding whitespace around a billion tiny things doesn’t really solve the problem of having a billion tiny things on screen.
There’s a difference between activity and content. Content is activity, but activity is not content. Showing me the fine details of how my high-school classmates change their Facebook...
March 2008
3 posts
“An obstacle downstream propagates upstream. If you’re not allowed to implement...”
– You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss (via hiten)
February 2008
3 posts
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'skitch' is quickly becoming a verb around the...
Over the past few months around the office and over IM it is becoming increasingly common to hear “Just skitch it to me” or “I just skitched that idea to you”.
“To make a great program there’s got to be at least one person at the...”
– Andy Hertzfeld in Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code
“But the ability to experiment easily is a critical factor for Web-based...”
– Kaizen, That Continuous Improvement Strategy, Finds Its Ideal Environment - New York Times (via hiten)
January 2008
3 posts
Stephen Covey's 90/10 Principle →
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# of followers on Twitter is the new # of friends...
Let me share a little fun game with you that I play every morning . It is called guess how many shady people from Twitter will be in my email inbox today. Every morning shortly after waking up I stare wearily at my laptop and check my email. Without fail every single day I have anywhere from 2-10 emails announcing proudly: “Creepy User X is now following you on Twitter!” Oh wow...
December 2007
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“From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
– Arthur Ashe