March 2013
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“Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte (via stoweboyd)
April 2012
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“Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.”
– John Cleese
December 2011
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“If you don’t occasionally get on your horse and tilt at a windmill, then you are...”
– John Robb (via mnmal)
November 2011
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Take Ownership of Your Features →
Instead of spending time developing Feature B, figure out a way to track and quantify the success metrics for Feature A. Use A/B tests, funnels, or solicit user feedback and actually figure out what value Feature A brought to your app. You may be surprised how much work it is to answer a question as simple as “Did this feature bring any value?”
October 2011
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“History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden...”
– Voltaire
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Running Pixmania (Ulric Jerome... →
big things poppin
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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin
September 2011
3 posts
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The Economy of Mixtapes →
“The game favors people that can produce quality music and then turn right around and produce more quality music-which is not a given,”
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“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of...”
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John Lilly
What a fantastic quote…
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Are You Building The Right Product? →
Most product teams don’t know if they are making their product better or worse (…) Because new features add overhead to products (generally making them more complicated), a new feature has to provide so much benefit to customers that it’s worth incurring this overhead. There is no such thing as a “neutral” new feature. “The same” means worse.
so true, yet sometimes nearly impossible to...
August 2011
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"Watch the Throne" - first major Hip Hop album not... →
“the anti-leak strategy was born out of a desire to ensure that all fans would have access to the album at the same time, in a nostalgic attempt to emulate the pre-Internet days (…) To eliminate such risks, Jay-Z and West implemented an Internet-free recording space. Watch the Throne was recorded in-person in makeshift setups. Tracks were saved directly to password-protected external...
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WatchNicholas Carr - What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
“Market research for Apple Computer is Steve’s left hemisphere is connected...”
– http://bigthink.com/ideas/31547
July 2011
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Your Commute Is Killing You →
“for an extra hour of commuting time, you would need to be compensated with a massive 40 percent increase in salary to make it worthwhile.”
“The goal is not to fix your weaknesses. The goal is to amplify your strengths...”
– Simon Sinek
If you Don’t Understand People You Don’t Understand Business Sinek argues that as individuals and companies, everything that we say and do is a symbol of who we are. And it is only when we communicate our beliefs authentically that we can attract others to our cause, and form the bonds...
“In the past you were what you owned. Now you are what you share.”
– Charles Leadbetter (via stoweboyd)
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Farming Pop →
Super Junior (which contains 11 singers), are sometimes broken into subunits with each specializing in different aspects of entertainment whether it is singing, dancing, rapping, or language. In effect, they become like a “Transformer” that can be configured and then reconfigured into different cultural versions. For instance, Super Junior M (“M” for Mandarin) is a subunit...
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The Secret Lives of Links →
”- The only text more useless than “learn more” is “click here”. - Nobody goes to a Website just to visit. - People don’t want to search, its the design of your sites that force users to search.”
few more good ones inside
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Watch“The cookbook to end all cookbooks.”
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Tap-Ahead: Mobile Auto-Suggest on Steroids →
Fantastic pattern, I’d love to see this one becoming a standard.
Also GTFO with a patent on a search pattern…
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Please, please, please stop asking how to find a... →
rafer:
Rafer gushes: Truth.
Damn right
June 2011
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May 2011
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BUXTON COLLECTION →
“Over the past 30 years, designer, writer, and researcher Bill Buxton has been collecting input and interactive devices whose design struck him as interesting, useful, or important. In the process, he has assembled a good collection of the history of pen computing, pointing devices, touch technologies, as well as an illustration of the nature of how new technologies emerge.”
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WatchRory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value
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I have no idea what I'm doing →
true transparency,
having no “big company experiece” I can definitely relate to Ben’s perspective
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How Smartphones Can Improve Public Transit →
“An interesting study of commuters in Boston and San Francisco found people are more willing to ride the bus or train when they have tools to manage their commutes effectively. The study asked 18 people to surrender their cars for one week. The participants found that any autonomy lost by handing over their keys could be regained through apps providing real-time information about transit...
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“Humor type and presenter status had no effects on short-term attractiveness, but...”
– Dissing Oneself versus Dissing Rivals: Effects of Status, Personality, and Sex on the Short-Term and Long-Term Attractiveness of Self-Deprecating and Other-Deprecating Humor (pdf)
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A Former Crack Dealer On The Economics Of...
April 2011
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“It was my experience that people approached an online purchase of six dollars...”
– Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard.in founder)
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“crisis can actually take people from thinking about what’s next to thinking...”
– Po Bronson
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Q: Did it bother you when people illegally downloaded your first CDs?
Girl Talk: Absolutely not. I loved it. It was really exciting. I actually used to go on Napster and LimeWire and check to see how many people where stealing the albums. It was very flattering.
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“Luck finds the doers.”
– Scott Adams
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via pieratt)
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design research doesn’t innovate, technology does... →
“Radical innovation in the products, I argued, always comes from the works of inventors, excited by some new technology and anxious to explore its potential. I do not know of a single radical innovation that has come from the people who do design research. Not the telephone or automobile, not Facebook or Twitter. Not 3D television nor, for that matter, high-definition television. Not hybrid...
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“In your darkest moments as CEO, discussing fundamental questions about the...”
– Ben Horowitz
great, really heartfelt post
March 2011
10 posts
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AutoPatchWork - Chrome Extension →
Pagination is dead.
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Biz Stone On The Howard Stern Show
quite an...
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“Operating in Chaos + Speed + Pivots = Success”
– Steve Blank - Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model 