October 2009
16 posts
“if you admit to yourself that you’re discontented, you’re a step...”
– Paul Graham (via)
‘Grownups, like some kind of cursed race, had to work. Kids didn’t, but they did have to go to school, which was a dilute version of work meant to prepare us for the real thing. Much as we disliked school, the grownups all agreed that grownup work was worse, and that...
“the really interesting question is not what will happen to existing forms, but...”
– Paul Graham (via)
Every time you send your users to an alert dialog,...
In a perfect world, we should never see a single alert dialog. Ever.
“The real irony here is that moving files to the recycle bin is a completely recoverable action. It doesn’t matter what I click in this dialog. If I mistakenly “delete” files this way, I can simply recover them from the recycle bin. This alert dialog is utterly superfluous. It’s just another...
“The only thing worse than coming in second place in the race for student council...”
– Seth Godin (via)
“As in high school, the winners are the ones who don’t take it too seriously and understand what they’re trying to accomplish. Get stuck in the never ending drama (worrying about what irrelevant people think) and you’ll never get anything done.”
“Knowing where your abilities end and another’s begin allows you to...”
– Plays in well with my idea of small tribes of multi-talented creatives working together in harmony rather than 10,000 employees stuffed in a glass building.
(via Play to your strengths and team up with complementary players
Bearshaving lunch breaks
I read an article on lifehacker about Maximizing your lunch hour, and I thought that stressing out about using your lunch break effectively is bearshaving, i.e. treating the never-ending symptoms rather than the cause.
You should be able to take as long as you wish whenever you wish, and work less or more the rest of the day to make up for the time u took or didnt take. And the workplace should...
“If kids are not paying attention in school, punishing them will not make them...”
– The “Trail of Candy” Design Pattern (via)
“Remember this: It’s not your job to create content for Google. it’s their job to...”
– Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists (via)
“The bottom line is that a lot of the time it’s OK to create a solution...”
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“We all still use email, of course. But email was better suited to the way we...”
– Why Email No Longer Rules… [via]
“Kirsh and Maglio [2] distinguish between ‘epistemic’ and ‘pragmatic’ actions. An...”
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“Maybe one definition of hell is that is the place where more effort produces...”
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