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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
So, Keep the Hard, Expensive Part?
“The newspaper’s value is in explaining a story in detail, rather than the bare headline, and putting it in a context. It’s also in choosing what to report and write about. By only including what they believe is important and worth knowing about, they make it manageable for readers to comprehend the totality of a …
Open Space Tech: Guiding principles and one law
Whoever comes is the right peoplereminds participants that they don’t need the CEO and 100 people to get something done, you need people who care. And, absent the direction or control exerted in a traditional meeting, that’s who shows up in the various breakout sessions of an Open Space meeting. Whenever it starts is the …
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Something Worth Starting the Day With
“News that activates your mind. Gives you new information and perspectives. Causes you to think of solutions. Causes you to feel that there is something you can do to make the world better.” – Dave Winer
Apple is no longer a premium brand
For decades, Apple was perceived a premium brand with premium products. Products that just worked – with price tags fanatics aspired to. Ironically, Apple’s most successful products – the iPhone and iPad – have completely removed the brand cache. At a glance – I can tell if a laptop is the latest MacBook Air. There’s …
Unbuttoned
a couple things I’ve written on the subject of third party buttons littering the web: from 2010 “In my experience, customer preferences move faster than website refresh schedules – so by the time the ‘Facebook Like’ button is integrated in a useful manner – the visitors changed their preference.” from 2006 “Once I’ve decided on …
The Four Firkins – Drinking with the Right Brain Class
Last night, Jamie and I joined 20 others at Josh Peppers’ Drinking with the Right Brain class at The Four Firkins. It was a super fun night of subjective, emotive, beer appreciation. Josh curated a diverse and interesting selection of beers (Fat Tire, Helios, Wells Bombadier, Tripel Karmaliet, something forgettable, and DeuS) I highly recommend …
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Open Loop #0 – But No Shoes
Drinking beer with our right brain. Introducing Open Loop. Being compelled. Thinking Fast and Slow. The time that Jamie deleted all of his nginx configuration files. Notes & Links: [0:00] Garrick’s blog post on Drinking with your Right Brain with Josh Pepper at The Four Firkins He’brew Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A. [5:26] Blue Yeti Pro and …
It’s Also an Issue for Me.
“The things I did because I was excited and wanted them to exist in reality have never let me down and I’ve never regretted the time I spent on any of them” – Neil Gaiman While I’ve never read anything by Neil Gaiman – I feel a strong kinship towards him (of course I’ve seen …