February 2012
24 posts
“Make a commitment to enjoy writing. Take any negative feelings you have about...”
– Column info : Write Now
Rands In Repose: When the Sky Falls →
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katie shelly * picture cook →
Cool idea - visual recipes
“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
“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.
“ten words, compiled from online collections, to describe love, desire and...”
– Big Think — bigthink.com — Readability
“Write from experience.
Tell the truth.
Be helpful.
Enjoy it.”
– The Four Laws Of Better Blogging
Troubleshooting Human Communications Tips →
Troubleshooting Human Communications Tips
“Microsoft’s biggest miss was allowing the world to finally see the truth behind...”
– Minimal Mac | Microsoft’s Biggest Miss
“We aren’t selecting individual tools any more. We choose from a small selection...”
– Neubertify • Why I stopped using Gmail
“So the next time you read or hear a report with a singular root cause, alarms...”
– Each necessary, but only jointly sufficient
The Most Influential Business Book Of The Last 30... →
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“the average lifespan of a Fortune 500 company is now 15 years, according to...”
– The temporary, pop-up corporation « BuzzMachine
“The decisions we make today in terms of the next action we engage in is...”
– A Fresh Take on Contexts | Simplicity Is Bliss
Erich’s creation - “The Monster...
“As everything and everybody gets swallowed up by Facebook, Google+ and other...”
– Freedom Is Blogging in Your Underwear by Hugh MacLeod
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
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.
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).
Quarter-Life Enlightenment - Home - The Band You... →
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“Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy...”
– The Rise of the New Groupthink - NYTimes.com
“Electronics are our talismans that ward off the spiritual vacuum of modernity;...”
– Fever Dream of a Guilt-Ridden Gadget Reporter
“Sent from my iPhone”
“It pried entry into the most difficult of markets by not even wanting to enter.”
– Enter, Prise | asymco
“Questions to consider
• How can you apply the “intentional selection of less” to...”
– Progress and the intentional selection of less
How To Be More Interesting (In 10 Simple Steps) →
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“Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table....”
– How Trello is different - Joel on Software
“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)
“CIOs reported that their top three concerns were: IT and business alignment;...”
– CCIE vs. MBA vs…?
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…
“Until you quiet the resistance and commit to actually shipping things that...”
– The reason productivity improvements don’t work
December 2011
34 posts
Five Things Worth Trying in 2012 →
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“Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of...”
– Steve Jobs via Walter Isaacson
“As a rule of thumb, a company should close their core assets and...”
– The tradeoff between open and closed - Chris Dixon
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.
“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.
parislemon • Dear Google+ →
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