January 2012
5 posts
“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...”
– Carl Sagan (via noneofyourbismuth)
“Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me — they’re shy and they live in...”
– Steve Wozniak. ”Woz on Creativity: Work Alone.” (Brain Pickings) From his memoir. (via chaddickerson)
“The notion that a product should be usable by its customers is a given. It’s...”
– Robert Hoekman, Jr. (via timothywikander)
December 2011
8 posts
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones...”
– Scott Adams (via homedesigning)
“And we morph again, from a manufacturing economy to a service economy to a...”
– Smart piece from Dan Frommer on why code should be the second language you teach your kids. Couldn’t agree more. (via arainert)
“Shape your product to fit user behavior. How you build something may not be how...”
– Jenn Vargas, founder of accomplsh. She’s also a great friend (and fellow East Coast-West Coast-back East again transplant!)
aw thanks josh! :D
(via foreverdigital)
November 2011
4 posts
Foursquare product request
khuyi:
Taking a cab to wok this morning because I didn’t pick a good breakfast venue for my commute.
Foursquare product request: ability to limit explore feature to places within 1/4 mile of a certain subway stop.
In general - hoping foursquare continues to build out metadata - business hours, wireless or not, cash only or not, etc. there are a number of apps that build variations on this...
Time to hustle.
My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine –... →
1 tag
What happened to me? I used to be inspired.
October 2011
5 posts
mrscottdavis:
Torchwood Miracle Day is on Netflix Instant now!
Goodbye, productivity.
Yessssss!
3 tags
September 2011
6 posts
5 tags
“Some people think that passion is embarrassing or something to hide. Almost as...”
– I’d pick a passionate amateur over an uninterested professional any day - TNW Entrepreneur (via thenextweb)
Jeannie Huang: Excellent Advice for Aspiring... →
“What nobody tells people who are beginners — and I really wish someone had told this to me … is that all of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
For the first couple years you make stuff, and it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good,…
“The things we have to learn before we do them, we learn by doing them.”
– Aristotle
“Your failures are all but forgotten as long as you also have great success.”
– sketching user experiences
5 tags
August 2011
6 posts
6 tags
“Think about it: you’re hiring somebody who needs to concentrate to be...”
– Offices and The Creativity Zone (via manage)
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Offices and The Creativity Zone →
timoni:
Related to the previous quote. I strongly agree with this article.
I miss working from home.
2 tags
“The open offices I’ve worked in—and some were otherwise great places to...”
– Open Offices Reduce Productivity and Increase Stress (via timoni)
Totally agree. If it’s something that requires concentration, I am way more productive if I can be a hermit while doing it. (via superamit)
Skillshare: Why Every Founder Needs an Apprentice →
skillshare:
“Men (and women) wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” —Sir Ernest Shackleton
Apprenticeship is defined as “a system of training a new generation of…
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”
– Bill Watterson (via simko)
My weekends never count anymore.
July 2011
4 posts
“No matter what a design studio promises, it’s very likely that in its first...”
– Subtraction.com: The End of Client Services (via timoni)
“There is no space for bullshit on a mobile web page”
– A comment by our mobile developer Matas Petrikas during this week’s masterclass about the mobile web. Well said. (via david-noel)
June 2011
19 posts
“Shape your product to fit user behavior. How you build something may not be how...”
– Jenn Vargas, founder of accomplsh. She’s also a great friend (and fellow East Coast-West Coast-back East again transplant!)
“We should have picked 5 to 10 key features that we totally focused on and let...”
– Chris DeWolfe, MySpace founder. (via joshuanguyen)
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs (via onminimalism)
for sale...
if i said i had a few 4 letter to 6 letter domains for sale, would anyone be interested? they’re common english words too.
does anyone really care about domain names anymore?
“Delight the eye without distracting the mind.”
– One of Google’s product design guidelines, via Design Principles (via timoni)
Accidental Chinese Hipsters →
joshuanguyen:
Instant follow.
too good
Google Finds Ways to Search Faster and Without... →
infoneer-pulse:
Google users will be able to search by talking to a computer or dropping an image in the search box, the company said Tuesday at Inside Search, an event in San Francisco. Google will also pre-load the Web pages it predicts users are most likely to click to save two to five seconds during a search.
» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)
“The #1 most unobvious, but most important task for a startup is to discover who...”
– Dan Khan, LeanCTO (via leancto)
Gridless - An awesome boilerplate for responsive,... →
“…A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.
You’ve been spending a lot...”
– Rands In Repose: A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring Out How to Start
“A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”
Once more:
“A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”
(via hilker)