Once or twice a semester, I’m invited to speak to a group of students at one of the many universities in this area. Sometimes I’m asked to talk about a project like Kernest, sometimes I’m asked about web design / information architecture / etc. Tonight, I was asked to talk about my business – not …
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Pre-Order GarrickVanBuren.com eBook for Your iPad or Kindle – $25
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed I’ve been pointing to posts written 1, 2,…5 years ago. You may also notice that I’ve been rambling about ebooks as well. If you suspected I’m reviewing my 6+ year blog archive and curating it for an ebook – I am, and you are most …
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Seth Godin on Book Publisher’s New Functions
This afternoon, I listened to Seth Godin’s 45 minute talk about now the economics of internet-based publishing and communication are changing book publishing. In short – ebooks aren’t it. In fact – it’s not actually about books at all. It’s about connecting people to ideas. Where the publisher has the people and is continually looking …
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Killing Time
This morning, even before my first cup of coffee – I went through my stable of Twitter accounts and started deactivating them. Easier and more straightforward than I expected. That was before Leo Laporte’s Buzz Kill post hit my radar: “It makes me feel like everything I’ve posted over the past four years on Twitter, …
Restored: No Longer an iPad and iPod Touch Owner
Somewhere around 2004, I remember writing a post [1] about how I saw the need for more ‘internet-enabled’ applications. Essentially – software applications native to a desktop or laptop computer that sends and receives internet-based data. A simple example of this in the Mac world is Mail.app, or Adium, or Tweetie. At the time I …
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Say ‘Hi’ Auggie.
Maybe you’re reading a book, or watching a movie, or working on something with your full concentration – and you realize you’ve been holding your breath. You have no idea how long you’ve been holding your breath. How long you’ve been focused solely on this one thing. But, it’s been a while. And you snap …
How to Consistently Un-motivate Yourself
“Less blogging, more jogging,” my friends.” – Alex Tabarrok The above quote is from an excellent post on how incentives – both their creation and manipulation – negatively influence motivation towards a goal. Feels like part of this phenomenon is covered by Goodhart’s Law (“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a …
JustType.de’s Kernest.com Interview With Garrick
Sebastian Brink from JustType.de interviewed me about Kernest.com. I took the opportunity to spell out some of the principles guiding Kernest’s ongoing development. I’m taking the liberty of re-posting this here for archival purposes. What is Kernest? What do you do? Kernest is an font directory and web font serving engine. The web font serving …
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Three Things Wrong with Heath Care
Earlier this week, at a local medical facility for a basic checkup – I was presented with a ‘Consent for Treatment’ document. Here are 3 brief excerpts from that document I feel highlight the incentives healthcare provider have to perform increasing costly services thus inflating healthcare costs. “I agree to any care (tests, treatment, medicines, …