November 2012 – Garrick van Buren

Not an Upgrade

“Each new upgrade brings more suckage into your computer. It makes itself slower. It adds three or four more capabilities you’ll never need.” – Farhad Manjoo

Serpent

No matter how much I use [my iPad] to check email, surf the web, or tag photos on Facebook, I’m still gnawed at by a horrifying emptiness that no amount of fiddling with your magical gadget can fill. – Sam Weiner

Just Passed the BJCP Entrance Exam.

After mostly correctly answering 200 randomly questions on all aspects of brewing, beer styles, and running BJCP competitions, I’m now a Provisional BJCP Judge.

Woot.

Now to study for the tasting exam.

By Contrast

“Life lasts a long time. You can disappear or be useless for weeks. If you are coming off several years of hard work, you can disappear and be useless for months… and the only impact that it will have on your success is that it will make you more successful.” – Bryan Goldberg

Not Amused

“My life is filled with all kinds of entertainment, I never have a chance to see it all. – Dave Winer”

Over the past few months, I’ve been more conscious of entertainment – which I’m broadly classifying as stuff that’s not directly or indirectly related to building the tomorrow I want.

There’s much more of this during my day then I initially realized. Just like when I paid more attention to my sugar consumption. This makes it much easier to be more deliberate about. Which is building the tomorrow I want.

Someday, Sucker

“Figure out what the last possible moment is. Delay your action until the last possible moment.” – Frank Partnoy, author of Wait: The useful art of procrastination

iChindogu

“So this expensive gadget doesn’t solve your real problems, but look how user-friendly it is” – bad_user

“Chindōgu is the Japanese art of inventing ingenious everyday gadgets that, on the face of it, seem like an ideal solution to a particular problem. However, chindōgu has a distinctive feature: anyone actually attempting to use one of these inventions would find that it causes so many new problems, or such significant social embarrassment, that effectively it has no utility whatsoever”

Suddenly, I’m reminded of so many Kickstarter projects.

Month: November 2012