February 2012
24 posts
“Make a commitment to enjoy writing. Take any negative feelings you have about...”
– Column info : Write Now
Feb 24th
Feb 23rd
Rands In Repose: When the Sky Falls →
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Feb 22nd
katie shelly * picture cook →
Cool idea - visual recipes
Feb 21st
“The company that sells a 1 Gbps connection for $20 a month is happy...”
– Hi, I am a big dumb fat pipe & I am okay with that — gigaom.com — Readability
Feb 20th
“What’s happening here is that Apple products keep getting better—and selling...”
– Why Apple is winning — news.cnet.com — Readability It will certainly be interesting to see how this all plays out.
Feb 18th
“ten words, compiled from online collections, to describe love, desire and...”
– Big Think — bigthink.com — Readability
Feb 18th
“Write from experience. Tell the truth. Be helpful. Enjoy it.”
– The Four Laws Of Better Blogging
Feb 18th
Troubleshooting Human Communications Tips →
Troubleshooting Human Communications Tips
Feb 17th
“Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind...”
– Minimal Mac | Microsoft’s Biggest Miss
Feb 17th
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“We aren’t selecting individual tools any more. We choose from a small selection...”
– Neubertify • Why I stopped using Gmail
Feb 13th
“So the next time you read or hear a report with a singular root cause, alarms...”
– Each necessary, but only jointly sufficient
Feb 13th
The Most Influential Business Book Of The Last 30... →
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Feb 11th
Feb 11th
“the average lifespan of a Fortune 500 company is now 15 years, according to...”
– The temporary, pop-up corporation « BuzzMachine
Feb 10th
“The decisions we make today in terms of the next action we engage in is...”
– A Fresh Take on Contexts | Simplicity Is Bliss
Feb 10th
ListenErich’s creation - “The Monster...
Feb 7th
“As everything and everybody gets swallowed up by Facebook, Google+ and other...”
– Freedom Is Blogging in Your Underwear by Hugh MacLeod
Feb 6th
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January 2012
16 posts
“Make no mistake, paper is a technology just as much as an LCD screen is, and as...”
– Sorry, iBooks, paper books still win on specs | The Verge
Jan 21st
Apple for the Teacher - Kieran Healy →
Ironically, the best iPad apps focused on reading things—like Instapaper—work to make the iPad more like a simple, static, easily-read book or article, not less. If the iPad is going to make new inroads in education, let along transform it, I think it’ll be through specialized apps like these, and not through an augmented-textbook model that reanimates the corpse of Microsoft Encarta.
Jan 21st
Lab Gear Review: Synology DS212 « Jason Nash’s... →
I picked up a DS212j in December for storing all the home media files and have been happy with it so far. Beyond just simple file storage it has a built-in iTunes server (along with other media sharing options).
Jan 20th
Quarter-Life Enlightenment - Home - The Band You... →
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Jan 17th
“Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
Jan 14th
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter “Sent from my iPhone”
Jan 12th
Jan 11th
“It pried entry into the most difficult of markets by not even wanting to enter.”
– Enter, Prise | asymco
Jan 11th
“Questions to consider • How can you apply the “intentional selection of less” to...”
– Progress and the intentional selection of less
Jan 9th
How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps) →
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Jan 8th
“Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table....”
– How Trello is different - Joel on Software
Jan 8th
“If you are serious about the software, you have to make the hardware.”
– 5by5 | Hypercritical #48: Blue Ocean Great history/discussion of Nintendo and how it used the “Blue Ocean” strategy to succeed with the DS and Wii in the past in arguing why Nintendo should not heed advice to port their games to other platforms such as iOS. (starts around 1:12:15)
Jan 4th
“CIOs reported that their top three concerns were: IT and business alignment;...”
– CCIE vs. MBA vs…?
Jan 4th
Stowe Boyd: A Company Of One In An Architecture Of... →
stoweboyd: Jeremiah Owyang is onto something when he recently suggested that workers should change their mindset about work, and consider themselves instead as a ‘company of one’: Mindset: Your Boss Is Really Your Client, Jeremiah Owyang […] the way that companies should re-think management is that…
Jan 2nd
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Jan 2nd
“Until you quiet the resistance and commit to actually shipping things that...”
– The reason productivity improvements don’t work
Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Five Things Worth Trying in 2012 →
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Dec 30th
“Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of...”
– Steve Jobs via Walter Isaacson
Dec 30th
“As a rule of thumb, a company should close their core assets and...”
– The tradeoff between open and closed - Chris Dixon
Dec 30th
Dec 30th
On a multi-hour flight, with the boy asleep on my lap, I realize one thing I enjoy about flying is the time it gives me to read and think … time that I don’t otherwise find enough of. Maybe it’s the enforced lack of distractions, but it almost makes me wish I travelled more.
Dec 30th
“Late last night, inspecting Santa’s handiwork, a simple thought occurred to me....”
– ★ Merry It’s several days past Christmas now, but this is still a sentiment worth remembering.
Dec 30th
parislemon • Dear Google+ →
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Dec 29th