“I’m always feeding the Update Beast. How often have you looked at Non-Technical Friends phone and showed them how they need to update their apps? All the time.” – Scott Hanselman
Author Archives: garrick
My Apologies, ‘Users’ is Accurate.
I was riding the LIRR the other day from Queens to Manhattan, and everyone around me was staring into the screen of their smartphone, tapping, typing, clicking. I watched the faces. They looked like the people sitting around in the system lab at the UW Comp Sci Dept in 1978. Same damn thing. Except now …
Finding Yourself Disconnected @ JSConf EU 2012
“The single most valuable resource I have is uninterrupted thought.”
“I’m going to say “no” a hell of a lot more in my life than I ever have, in order that I can put more energy into an increasingly curated set. That is much harder for me than quitting Twitter for a month—or even quitting Twitter entirely.” – Adam Brault
Dopamine
Brain scan research shows that our brains show more stimulation and activity when we anticipate a reward than when we get one.
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
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 …
Removing the Screen
“It’s time for us to move beyond screen-based thinking. Because when we think in screens, we design based upon a model that is inherently unnatural, inhumane, and has diminishing returns. It requires a great deal of talent, money and time to make these systems somewhat usable, and after all that effort, the software can sadly, …
Time is an Illusion
“The idea was born of a conversation with a friend about how much our wanting to know the time was useful and how much was just an addiction to some bit of knowledge that didn’t help us — something that made us feel better prepared, but didn’t make us any wiser.” – Erik Kennedy
Jim’s Paleo Media Diet
“I just believe that my brain is maladapted to the networked Skinner Box, so I want out. My brain is plastic, but not in a sufficiently adaptive way. In fact it’s probably adapting just fine, but in a fashion that creates a destructive feed forward loop.” – Jim Stogdill