“ All processes have a core of complexity that cannot be designed away. The only question is what handles it: the system, or the user.
— Larry Tesler (via Controls are Choices)
The Insomniac's Tumbleog
A Constant stream of gibberish updated while you were sleeping and I was not
“ Lack of motivation. It sounds lame, but you will get days where no matter how hard you try, you can’t produce anything. Usually a sign of needing a break.
— Jon ‘Firefox’ Hicks (via Why you can never work ‘full time’)
“ Users won’t give you major innovations. You have to get that one yourself. Users will give you incremental innovations which might prove pretty important.
— 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 the work itself. It has to become sacred to you.
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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 is getting up the next day and going back to it.
-CHRIS GUILLEBEAU (via)
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 will.
— Mahatma Gandhi (via reluctantbuddha) (via iindia)
“ If you find yourself wanting to hire a recruiter, hit yourself in the head with a frying pan until the feeling goes away.” - Brian Menell
“ Money is more than a transfer of value. It’s a statement of belief.
— An ad agency that won’t buy ads, a consultant who won’t buy consulting, and a waiter who doesn’t tip big—it’s a sign, and not a good one. (via Seth Godin: Watch the money)
“ I enjoyed talking about design because I have a passion for it. Although I will never claim to be a designer, I wanted to share my thoughts with the world
Make it up and make it happen.
“Confabulation is how we understand ourselves and the world. Without it, we’d have nothing but a pool of unconnected thoughts. No beliefs about how things should be, no visions of the future, no understanding of how each of our personalities and beings remain consistent from moment to moment. We’re all making things up all the time.”
(via Confabulation and improv)
(via papertissue)
“ Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.
— Unknown (via)
“ No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
— Leon Battista Alberti
