February 2012
9 posts
When does design matter?
This isn’t meant as a troll or a rant. Or meant to spark any outrage.
And it feels like I need to preface this with:
I do believe design (informational and stylistic) is insanely important in many situations to early businesses. It’s just that I get confused when.
Look at the Clear app that sold 350,000 downloads in the iPhone app store practically overnight. The only reason that...
I'm giving up. Oh wait. Facepalm.
So I’m working on this new thing. I’m not going to reveal it yet, because it’s still getting figured out before I want to promote it too much.
The gist is, I’m doing some very unscalable things to test out some conceptual product ideas. If you want to read a great article about achieving scale by doing things that don’t scale, you should read this:
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“THEN WHY HAVEN’T YOU DONE IT YET?? Do you realize how easy it is to do...”
– A great quote from Tucker Max as he reviews some job applications.
Recap of round two responses — TuckerMax.me
Am I confused about the GPL or are they?
It’s crazy to me that I’ve been “dealing with” open source licenses for what seems to be my entire professional career. 13 years. And I still can’t definitively tell someone what is or is not allowed under something as popular as the GNU General Public License, or GPL.
The latest example is about some stuff I was researching about Wordpress themes. A few theme...
Short documentary on IDEO's process
Great documentary on IDEO’s process. It’s funny though. Doesn’t seem too surprising. Just give some smart diverse people a few constraints and let them run their brains all over the place. A few other take aways:
Go immerse yourself into the life of the user.
Ask all the questions.
Nothing is sacred and should be assumed.
“Ninjas are a species of ghost bred for the purpose of assassination and other...”
– Dr Theophilus Pudding’s World of Knowledge of the World: Ninjas (via colepierce)
Haunted
“I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair I’ll fix it.” - Mitt Romney
This isn’t a political post. There’s a post I wanted to write recently, and Romney’s recent soundbite spurred it to get completed.
Mitt isn’t saying something that’s just the viewpoint of Republicans. I’ve heard this same...
I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY'
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY...