December 2009
7 posts
“Users won’t give you major innovations. You have to get that one yourself....”
– Richard White of UserVoice (via)
A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.
While 2009 has been a less than desirable year in contexts of peace, relaxation, stress and sleep, It is important to remember that being able to make it out alive leaves us much better prepared to sail peacefully through the storm should it happen again
“To sustain a long-term commitment to creative work, you have to be excited about...”
– This year I grew to see my main occupational identity as a writer, and I learned to structure my workday around everything that process involves. These days there are all kinds of distractions to keep me from writing. Sometimes I successfully resist them and sometimes I give in; the important thing...
Paul Rand: "Good ideas rarely come in bunches" →
Article advising against the wastefull practice of designing and presenting multiple comps for the same visual problem in order to offer non-design staff, such as executives and managers “choices” to exercise their personal judgement, fully knowing they will pick the best parts of the few good comps while ignoring the ones that were half-assed and only presented to inflate the numbers.
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable...”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via reluctantbuddha) (via iindia)
“If you find yourself wanting to hire a recruiter, hit yourself in the head with...”