May 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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Just give it a few years and then maybe →
Wired’s Steven Levy in an otherwise interesting post about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos:
Yes, the Fire lacks the industrial-design pyrotechnics that make fanboys foam at the mouth like the iPad does. But who cares? Like a lizard shedding its skin, next year there will be another Fire and in three years the original will look as antiquated as the bizarre-looking Kindle 1 appears today.
Right....
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Old subway musician, of whom I wish I knew more -...
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Dear Young Me,
I’m 25 today. Here’s a list of things I wish I had learned earlier:
Time is the most important resource you have. Don’t waste it.
If you don’t ask for what you want, you won’t get it. Asking for it isn’t enough either.
Music is important. Listen to what has gone through centuries and inspired generations, forget about the rest.
Instead of watching TV, watch...
January 2012
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Why are software development task estimations... →
Excellent analogy by Michael Wolfe on Quora:
We can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours per day, so we’ll be there in 10 days. We call our friends and book dinner for next Sunday night. They can’t wait to see us!
We get up early the next day giddy with the excitement of fresh adventure. We strap on our backpacks, whip out our map, and plan day one. We take a look at the map. Uh...
Cars
Two great posts I read today:
Cars Kill Cities
Not The Solution
I recently heard somebody say he didn’t care about crosswalks because cities belong to pedestrians. It made me realize how the two cities I lived in, Paris and New York, are completely planned for cars.
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How Trello is different →
Joel Spolsky:
The great horizontal killer applications are actually just fancy data structures.
Spreadsheets are not just tools for doing “what-if” analysis. They provide a specific data structure: a table. Most Excel users never enter a formula. They use Excel when they need a table. The gridlines are the most important feature of Excel, not recall.
Word processors are not just...
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Steve Jobs Owes Us All An Apology →
Dinosaur Trader:
The older table made up of my uncles and aunts was the liveliest. They were trading stories, old and new, and laughing. My table consisted mainly of my immediate family. My brother in law stared down at his “smart phone” for the entirety of the Jets game without saying a word. I looked over at the table containing my cousins who are all about 20 years older than me. A few of...
2012 & The End of the World →
A short video explanation on the end of the world. Funny and interesting as always with C. G. P. Grey:
Anyway. After this NASA became so inundated with questions that they had to take time away from their busy robot building, frontier pushing, knowledge expanding, civilization inspiring schedule, to write a webpage explaining that no, a human-sacrificing, stone-age society with neither wheels...
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What is winning, after all?
People wonder who between Apple and Google is winning at the smartphone war. Some say Google is, others argue it’s Apple. If you were to build a company, how would you define a success? And what is winning after all?
You can learn in business school that, for a company, winning is maximizing shareholder value. Winning at business is about money.
Apple is making shitloads of money by...
December 2011
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2012
2011 was the year I:
left Paris for New York
got my first real job and joined the awesome ChallengePost team
took evening classes for a master in Information Systems Management
started the Couch-to-5k program and ran a half–marathon
attended a Fatboy Slim gig on a beach of Governors Island and saw Pink Martini in Central Park
went to Asia for the first time when traveling across China
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“You remember those Magic Eye books from the 1990s? The ones where you’d...”
– Why 3D movies need to die - The Oatmeal
November 2011
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Tech reviews by people
It’s becoming more obvious that specs don’t matter these days, or at least that what really matters is harder to compare. People who need product recommendations will only find experts writing for other experts. Nobody knows what RAM is or what 802.11n means. They care about ease of use, time-to-Facebook and how long will the battery last.
I asked some regular people to tell me about...
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Mary Rose Cook in The Setup:
There are three reasons to use emacs. One, it is available on a lot of platforms. Two, it can be used for almost any task. Three, it is very customisable.
It’s interesting how these are the exact same reasons I go back to TextMate every time I start using another editor:
I don’t care about other platforms, I want something that feels integrated to OS...
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a dangerous...
This is the new Droid Razr commercial:
Unless you’re a supervillain, why on Earth would you be interested in a flying blade that slices everything standing in its way?
I was just reading a thread on Quora where somebody asks why do people think that Apple’s success is due to making good products, and I believe one part of the answer is that Apple actually makes good products but...
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A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design →
Bret Victor on Microsoft’s Future Vision video:
Pictures Under Glass is old news. Let’s start using our hands.
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October 2011
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UX Rookie: Evolution of the WatchThis movie page →
uxrookie:
Since WatchThis launched, I made a lot of changes to the movie page.
I like to keep the number of pages to a minimum. When we discuss new features with Kevin we always evaluate the impact on the site in terms of interface: how many pages will have to be changed and how many pages will have to be added. It’s often too many.
Alex started a new blog where he explains the interfaces he...
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September 2011
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An American Drug Lord in Acapulco →
How a high school jock from Texas rose to the top of one of Mexico’s most powerful and ruthless cartels.
Vanessa Grigoriadis and Mary Cuddehe Edgar:
On a warm morning in May a few years ago, Edgar Valdez, a drug lord who goes by the nickname La Barbie, woke up in one of the houses he owned in the resort city of Acapulco. In the 1950s, this beautiful beach town was the premier haunt of...
WatchRIP DJ Mehdi.
