May 2012
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March 2012
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Andrew Bird playing in a boat on the River Thames,... →
February 2012
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WatchBootstrapping a Software Product
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
3 posts
Watch“Get right with yourself” - Sonny Rollins, 2011
October 2011
3 posts
“If you’re not playing, you’re paying.”
– Mike Watt
The Steve Jobs I Knew →
What goals have you set for yourself lately?
September 2011
2 posts
The Northern Lights - seen from a satellite →
Inspiring …humbling.
Watch The Video: http://spaceweather.com/swpod2011/22sep11/media.mp4?PHPSESSID=rp9o09hsltjsa57ta3v3nrduk7
“If you want to go fast, travel alone. If you want to go far, travel together.”
– African Proverb
August 2011
4 posts
Maira Kalman - artist profile →
Maira Kalman is an artist, designer, author, illustrator, and photographer, among other things.
July 2011
5 posts
“Entrepreneurship is the management discipline that deals with the domain of...”
– Eric Ries
June 2011
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May 2011
12 posts
Ten design lessons from Frederick Law Olmsted, the... →
1) Respect “the genius of a place.” 2) Subordinate details to the whole. 3) The art is to conceal art. 4) Aim for the unconscious. 5) Avoid fashion for fashion’s sake. 6) Formal training isn’t required. 7) Words matter. 8) Stand for something. 9) Utility trumps ornament. 10) Never too much, hardly enough.
Eno's Thoughts on the 1960's
The question, in the end: ‘Is the world getting better?’ I argued that it was… The others argued that the present generation was in a mess (I said, ‘What else would you expect? Would you trust them if they weren’t?’), and were soon celebrating the sixties as a time of certainty and consensus. I was saying that the sixties were flawed by a dichotomy - the...
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The Rockstar Myth by Andrew Wilkinson →
“We have to accept that we aren’t super-human. Too many designers pride themselves on hand-crafting everything they produce. They write their own code and insist on designing every screen of a project themselves. Designers like this burn themselves out within a matter of years. When your business grows, your time invariably gets split between doing the work you love and keeping up with...
“The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a...”
– Jason Fried
April 2011
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“Good results follow from the attempt to match intellect to emotion”
– Brian Eno
February 2011
2 posts
A Puzzle
Recently read on my FB Status: “How do you play the game fairly while changing the rules at the same time” ?
