Tag Archive for 'money'
#Linkdump for August 10th
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Harvard Business Review (via DF):
Despite an unbroken string of 11 blockbuster films, Catmull regularly says, "Success hides problems." It's an insight Google should acknowledge and act on. Google's leadership admirably tolerates failure on side-projects (and big projects as well), but what Pixar has that Google does not is a culture where the fear of complacency is a strong motivator, where new problems are identified, discussed, and addressed openly and honestly, all of which requires humility.
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Paring down to ≤100 personal items is perhaps taking it to an extreme, but there are a lot of great points in here. Especially the one about how paying for experiences (e.g., travel, concerts and events, etc.) is far more fulfilling than paying for "stuff".
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Tangentially related to my recent post about The Shallows (at One Thin Tumbl).
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at Stubbornella, and w/r/t/ my recent post about The Shallows — Nicole Sullivan manages to say more of substance in this blog post than Carr does in 250 pages. (Perhaps because of its more personal nature?)
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at SPIEGEL ONLINE, and w/r/t/ my recent post about The Shallows:
He'd never dream of keeping a blog. Nor does he know anybody else his age who would want to. And he's certainly never tweeted before. "What's the point?" he asks.
#Linkdump for May 27th
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at Boing Boing — a quote within a quote, re: Exxon Valdez:
Despite heroic efforts involving more than 11,000 people, 2 billion dollars, and aggressive application of the most advanced technology available, only about 8 percent of the oil was ever recovered.
In other words, off-shore drilling (and petrol, in a more general sense) is a fundamentally bankrupt institution and we better start in earnest on our alternatives right fucking now.
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at blog maverick (via DF):
If you dont think the company you are buying is worth at least a quarter more than what you are paying , why are you buying shares ?
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at Etsy's Code as Craft blog — an awesome (and thorough) run-down of their push-button deployment process. Good readin'.
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A List Apart:
In recent years, I’ve been meeting with more companies that request “an iPhone website” as part of their project. It’s an interesting phrase: At face value, of course, it speaks to mobile WebKit’s quality as a browser, as well as a powerful business case for thinking beyond the desktop. But as designers, I think we often take comfort in such explicit requirements, as they allow us to compartmentalize the problems before us. We can quarantine the mobile experience on separate subdomains, spaces distinct and separate from “the non-iPhone website.” But what’s next? An iPad website? An N90 website? Can we really continue to commit to supporting each new user agent with its own bespoke experience? At some point, this starts to feel like a zero sum game. But how can we—and our designs—adapt?
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via DF:
If it were only that the prequels were ruined by subpar writing, I would be okay. Disappointed, but hardly inconsolable. Maybe Lucas had just caught lightning in a bottle with the originals. But unfortunately, the nature of the prequels seems to spoil the originals merely by occupying shelf space near them, via some sort of heinous osmosis. Now, if you watch the prequels before the original trilogy (in chronological order), the ending of Empire is completely without weight. The biggest reveal in the history of cinema is ruined. Sure, there’s the dramatic irony of watching Episode IV and V knowing Luke and Leia are siblings and Vader is their father, but it’s not played for dramatic irony; for that you need suspense, and the climax of Empire is dependent on surprise, not suspense. It is the reason I will ensure that my children not watch the prequels until they’ve seen the original trilogy (in whatever form it exists by that point).
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at merhl (via JL) — The implicit question here: at what point does distinctive look-and-feel become a barrier to user comprehension and/or adoption?
#Linkdump for November 11th
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at The Oatmeal — I love this design.
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short version: "Sarah Palin is too crazy even for the crazy network." Personally I'd like it if "In God We Trust" came off the money all together (it's part of the reason I don't carry cash?)
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a Slashdot News Story — I found out about this years ago and have been telling it to damn near everyone. And no one believes me. Even a few native Vermonters. Not that I'm relying on /. to up my credibility but still—thanks for backing me up, CmdrTaco.
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Perhaps a bit meta but to sum up: this is a good, paradigmatic microcosm of where I think the Android is currently "going wrong". And let's not get me wrong: I wish Android nothing but success—I want it to be as hugely popular/successful a platform as the iPhone. But this is a worrying trend, don't you think? I could link back to Gruber linking back to someone else again here: when we talk about mobile decides—especially mobile "touch" devices—we're talking about how badly there needs to be a common interface language that is not "owned" by any singular entity. Tapping, dragging, pinch-to-zoom, etc. That needs to be taken as the de facto way to interact (and that's just talking about ONE FACET of the the user-input aspect of this discussion). I think it's inevitable that these things will work themselves out (and quickly) over the next couple months and then developers on the non-dominant platforms will be playing a game of "refactor-or-perish".
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at Ransom Note Typography (via DF)
#30 days with Mint.com
A self-professed miser and amateur budgeteer, I’ve been hearing rumors of Mint.com‘s awesomeness for quite some time now. A long-time Quicken user, I’ve been a bit reluctant to try it out — once I’ve gotten into the groove of a particular apparatus or routine, I’m loathe to break from it[1].
But Quicken has left me feeling wanting for a while now[2], despite (or perhaps because of?) how entrenched in it I’d become.
So I decided to give Mint.com the ol’ college try for (give or take) 30 days:
Read the rest of this entry »
- Not for lack of an innovative spirit, mind you. But on certain fronts (i.e., tracking your household expenses), the reward for even trying something different seems so… not worth it. [↩]
- Brief and informal list of complaints against Quicken: (1) I don’t really like how it does budgets [and consequently, I don't use the budgets feature]; (2) it stopped syncing with my bank statements more than two years ago and no amount of “resetting” the application seems to help for longer than two cycles; and (3) the reporting is all manual and tedious and the UI is just so clunky… [↩]
#Linkdump for April 28th
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at Al Dente
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at LifeHacker
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via LifeHacker: "Naming is sharing!" — face recognition for Flickr? on the web?
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at Ajaxian
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at TwinCities.com (via Apple News)
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at LaptopLogic.com — a couple of fun-looking projects on here.
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at Atlassian Developer Blog — no catch!
#Linkdump for April 17th
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at B²
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via DF: worth a link, for sure. worth a few minutes for a smile and a chuckle.
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via The Apple Blog: tempting… if only for André the Giant.
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at Ajaxian: worth checking out…..?
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at B²: every year, I tell myself: "this year… well, maybe next year…"
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at Omnivoracious: more to add to the to-read list…
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I mean… Just LOOK at these fucking hipsters!
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By Chris Wilson (Slate Magazine): if you're morbidly interested, click-through; if you're the kind of person that cringes when you watch eye-ball surgery on the Health Channel… Well, maybe I can find a link to icanhazcheezburger around here somewhere…
#Linkdump for April 2nd
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ThinkGeek wins the price this year for best April Fool's prank. Hands down.
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via fogus, DF — rejected alternate title "pundit fail"?
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If there's nothing in here about Unicode symbols, I'm filing a complaint.
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5 reasons this article is stupid: (1) stocks are just as (if not more) likely to experience value fluctuations [they are not intrinsically safer]; (2) there's evidence that housing prices have already bottomed out [but that said, it depends on the region anyway]; (3) he's assuming you WANT to buy a big ass, energy burning house; (4) [see #3]; and (5) neighborhoods changing is a BAD thing…?
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at Omnivoracious — looks interesting
#Linkdump for February 24th
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Great article, even if it glosses over certain things. Especially good in combination with: crisisofcredit.com — that said, I'm still not sure what a "credit default swap" is…
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"Does enlightenment bring with it responsibility and obligation? That is, making sure your projects live up to the standards you are aware of and are capable of. As a lover of great food, should I kick and scream as Nicole drags me by my ear into the Olive Garden? Or should I shut up and just eat my oily pasta dish? As you progress as a woodworker and learn more about creating quality work, do you feel guilty if you stop short? Do you ever say “good enough”, even though you know you could do better? I am curious to hear where you draw that line….. I’ll go first. I definitely feel a sense of guilt if I don’t do something to the absolute best of my abilities. But there are times, as a business, that I must come up with cost saving solutions that frequently mean lowering my standards. When making my own personal pieces, however, I really do try to make everything as good as it can possibly be given the tools/materials on hand and my current skill set."
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I don't plan on starting my own (certainly not any time soon) but there's still some great material in here for anyone in any enterprise — no matter how established, no matter how personal… I especially like #s 3-5, 7, & 10 (in part because if you do #3, you can get to #5 by doing #4 (by way of #7), tempering it with #10)
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Bad ass.
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at Meetup.com (via Flickr)
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via Mac.AppStorm: interesting idea… overkill or…?
#Linkdump for February 18th
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at CSS Class
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"Conclusion: Not Ready" — hope you like font tags!
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at The Millions (via B²): It was funny when the proverbial They did this for Palin's sentences; interesting to see it here for Obama's.
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Uh… What he said?
Why do we use floats for layout, anyway? clear. That’s pretty much the whole answer. The unique in-flow/out-of-flow nature of floats means they interact with each other and with the normal flow, which means they can be cleared, which makes them useful.
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at Carrer Blog
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"Your money at work." (Let's make every penny count, people.)
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at TUAW
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via /.
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at COSMOS magazine (via /.)
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at Wired Science
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via Slashdot (via lawnczar, others)
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