February 2012
4 posts
“He personally helped design a building in Murray Hill, N.J., opened in 1941,...”
– Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - NYTimes.com
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Joel... →
“It is not, as it turns out, necessary to be a micromanaging psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder (or even to pretend to be one) if you just hire smart people and give them real authority. The saddest thing about the Steve Jobs hagiography is all the young “incubator twerps” strutting around Mountain View deliberately cultivating their worst personality traits because they...
The Sound Agency » Blog Archive » More damaging... →
“Open plan offices were designed with the idea that people can move around and interact freely to promote creative thinking and better problem solving, but it doesn’t work like that. If you are just getting into some work and a phone goes off in the background, it ruins what you are concentrating on. Even though you are not aware at the time, the brain responds to distractions.”
January 2012
9 posts
Do things the long, hard, stupid way - Do Lectures →
Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good web design |... →
“My heart belongs to the details. I actually always found them to be more important than the big picture. Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality” – Dieter Rams
Ellsworth Kelly, Explorer of Shape, Line and Color... →
In one of the largest rooms he pointed out a brightly splattered area he called his painting wall. Unlike younger artists, including Mr. Hirst and Jeff Koons, who often direct studio assistants, Mr. Kelly creates everything with his own hand. “I wouldn’t feel right doing it any other way,” he said. “Kids do anything these days, but I’m still an old-fashioned painter. Maybe in a few years when I’m...
Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You... →
December 2011
5 posts
Time to end the war on drugs - Richard's Blog -... →
Yep. Yep.
Why you shouldn’t launch your startup in the press... →
We call it the ‘product launch’ when you put the product in front of customers — and you should do that as soon as possible — but do the marketing launch — when you’re pounding your chest and talking about how great you are — as late as possible.
Kickstarted: How one company is revolutionizing... →
Users Know: STFU About What Women Want →
Amen.
ZLOK Branding Blog – I Invented … the Apple Logo -... →
“But Jobs was resolute, arguing that color was the key to humanizing the company,”
November 2011
6 posts
Daring Fireball Linked List: The Parable of the... →
Designing a product is keeping five thousand things in your brain and fitting them all together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently.
And it’s that process that is the magic.
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
FAIL UPWARDS | Dave Trott's Blog | CST The Gate →
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October 2011
8 posts
Slide Design for Developers →
Good info, even if you’re not a developer!
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs - NYTimes.com →
This is incredibly moving.
Woz on Apple: 'I'm a little afraid' | Technically... →
Woz is passionate (and wise) about the fact that the things that matter to engineers aren’t the things that matter to real human beings.
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The Man Who Inspired Jobs - NYTimes.com →
The worldview he was describing perfectly echoed Land’s: “Market research is what you do when your product isn’t any good.” And his sense of innovation: “Every significant invention,” Land once said, “must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention.” Thirty years later, when a reporter...
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Ellen Johnson... →
“We cannot achieve democracy and lasting peace in the world unless women obtain the same opportunities as men to influence developments at all levels of society,”
September 2011
9 posts
SeptemberIndustry - The best in international... →
Inspiring
Customer culture – Marco.org →
Love the “culture of compromise” concept:
This culture of compromise has been cultivated by Apple’s relentless pace of forcing progress and killing legacy support.
37signals.com homepage evolution - (37signals) →
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via putorti)
Do Happier People Work Harder? - NYTimes.com →
“Working adults spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else. Work should ennoble, not kill, the human spirit. Promoting workers’ well-being isn’t just ethical; it makes economic sense. Fostering positive inner lives sometimes requires leaders to better articulate meaning in the work for everyone across the organization.”
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August 2011
5 posts
The Hidden (in Plain Sight) Legacy of Steve Jobs -... →
Steve Jobs and the Eureka Myth - Adrian Slywotzky... →
Because Apple knows the more you compete inside, the less you’ll have to compete outside.
Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes - Digits - WSJ →
Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the... →
July 2011
3 posts
KEEPS: What Apple Has that Google Doesn't →
keepsdiary:
Great article from The New York Times. I bolded my favorite parts so you can just skim and read those.
“AT Apple, one is the magic number.
One person is the Decider for final design choices. Not focus groups. Not data crunchers. Not committee consensus-builders. The decisions reflect…
29 life lessons learned in travelling the world... →
Awesome
June 2011
8 posts
