August 2011
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“One of the most fascinating effects I’ve seen in quite awhile is that we can...”
– The Secret Language Code: Scientific American
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“Back in 2009, the movement appeared genuinely stumped with a conundrum of its...”
– Abe Sauer, What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party. I haven’t been a Christian for years, but the article’s opening thesis–that the Tea Party wants a Christian nation–is obvious to anyone who grew up in a speaking-tongues household. If you didn’t know that those sorts of...
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via putorti)
“These experiments demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for...”
– Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com
“The process in making this a reality turned out to be very interesting. Much is...”
– On making a mobile, responsive version of Dribbble, from SimpleBits / Adapted
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“Recently, in our industry, I’ve noticed a disturbing increase of the term...”
– Mark Boulton, Visual Design is not a thing. I couldn’t agree more. This quote’s final sentence is exactly the conclusion I’ve come to recently, which is that every great designer I know would never simply call themselves a visual designer, or a UX designer.
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Unadventure as creation →
bobulate:
Eno on unadventure:
“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.”...
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Golden Grid System →
‘The 16 columns can be combined, or folded, into 8 columns for tablet-sized screens, and into 4 columns for mobile-sized ones. This way GGS can easily cover any screen sizes from 240 up to 2560 pixels.’
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“I suspect a lot of people aren’t sure what’s the top idea in their...”
– Paul Graham, The Top Idea in Your Mind. I’ve been taking this advice to heart since reading this essay last week. It’s been surprisingly easy to stop myself when I realize I’m idly thinking about less useful or unproductive subjects. It’s also interesting to learn what...
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“Far worse than that is when these same people flood the App Store with negative...”
– PSA: This is why non-developers shouldn’t run iOS betas | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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It's spring cleaning time
As one of nature’s instinctive horders, I have to periodically take stock of my belongings and separate the necessary from the nice. Here’s some nice things that I don’t really need, and would like to give to someone who wants them.
A lot of books, including…
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s lovely translations of Russian works, including Notes from...
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this doesn't seem good.
Me: Hello?
Telemarketer: Hello, ma'am. I'm calling because you were pre-selected for a $250 gift certificate to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and...
Me: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not interested. Take me off your list.
Telemarketer: Ma'am, you signed up for this list.
Me: What? No I didn't. Take me off the list.
Telemarketer: Ma'am, you signed up for the [name of some list].
Me: Okay, fine. I still want to be taken off the list.
Telemarketer: But you signed up!
Me: I don't care! Take me off the list!
Telemarketer: Well *I* don't care either! I'm gonna just call you back later. *click*
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“Before starting on a design, Mr. Cuervo sometimes will force himself to write...”
– Facebook’s Soleio Cuervo: The Man Who Got Us to ‘Like’ Everything | Creating - WSJ.com. I do this. You should do this, too.
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“Your business success will depend on the extent to which programmers essentially...”
– Managing Software Engineers Amen, brother. I think about this every time I leave my (nice) apartment for my (not nice) office.
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Offices and The Creativity Zone →
Related to the previous quote. I strongly agree with this article.
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“The open offices I’ve worked in—and some were otherwise great places to...”
– Open Offices Reduce Productivity and Increase Stress. This is interesting; I have no beef with open offices, as they tend to be much more beautiful than cube farms. But I am doubly, if not triply, more efficient and productive working from home.
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“For those into academic jargon, this is known as the Elaborated Social Identity...”
– Riot psychology « Mind Hacks
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“Collective effervescence (CE) is a perceived energy formed by a gathering of...”
– Collective effervescence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We...”
– Education Needs a Digital-Age Upgrade. If you couldn’t tell, I love browbeating older generations. And yes, I hope to remember this when I am an older generation.
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““Williamsburg is just becoming like a circus,” he said. “When I’m there, I hear...”
– Jake Dobkin quoted in A Twee Grows In Brooklyn. I wonder why he thinks Brooklyn shouldn’t be precious, or why mutton chops contribute to an unhealthy lifestyle.
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“If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.”
– Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
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“At TechCrunch Disrupt New York we had our first woman founder winner. The...”
– Marissa Mayer in Tech Executives See Paths for Women, Especially Geeks - WSJ.com. This impresses me, too.
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“As mentioned above, Mint had a clear technological vision of how the product...”
– Jason Putorti • Mint vs. Wesabe: A B-School Case Study. Anybody else find this conclusion backwards? A clear technological vision indicates product development is paramount, and customer development is secondary, as Mint—according to the article—wasn’t tailoring their product to a particular...
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“When you look closely at auteurs, what you often find is that their real genius...”
– The Auteur Myth | Wired Science | Wired.com
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“The thing about the tech crowd is that it has a long history of nicks and...”
– danah boyd | apophenia » “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
“When the mouse worked, hand motions followed a mathematical form known as “one...”
– Your Computer Really Is a Part of You | Wired Science | Wired.com
“The really tough problem of innovation is waste disposal.”
– The Cooper Journal: Innovation is a waste disposal problem 