Years ago, I’d have regularly scheduled massage appointments to relieve the stress in my shoulders and upper back. A result of hunching over the laptop all day. Then, I compared the ongoing price of massage to a big external monitor. The monitor was a bargain. Over the last couple weeks, I’ve been noticing the hunching …
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
What if They Had Only 4 Products?
“Jobs killed slow-selling products, most notably the Apple Newton hand-held computer, and reduced the number of product lines from sixty to just 4…” – Charles Hill, Garteth Jones, Essentials of Strategic Management Apple’s always had a culture of not turning back, and dragging their application developers (think Adobe) & users into their future. Dropping 3 …
Pay More, Better
Daniel Markham nails why I wholeheartedly disagree with pricing a book less than $25. “After considering those numbers, I’ve decided to go high. Retail price will be $99.99. I feel like I can justify this for a few reasons: 1) If it really helps you it’s worth that money, 2) If you pay that much …
Continuously
“I have strong believe (sic) that right now, somewhere, a new community site for programmers is rising. I only need to find it.” – z92
The Moo Train
“I want liberation from the commercial Web’s two-decade old design flaws. I don’t care how much a company uses first person possessive pronouns on my behalf. They are not me, they do now know me, and I do not want them pretending to be me, or shoving their tentacles into my pockets, or what their …
History of the term “Telephone Sanitizer”
Now, for a socially aspiring middle class family, it wasn’t quite the thing to have a truck parked in front of their house marked “Kensington W.C. Cleaning” or “Brompton Crapper Swabout,” broadcasting the messages: (a) we don’t have staff, and (b) our W.C. is dirty. So some enterprising toilet cleaner stencilled “Telephone Sanitizing” on the …
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Speak When You Have Something to Sell
“They are the un-Apple or un-Amazon, two companies who never say anything without offering something to buy.” – Dave Winer This is the most important and prescient thing I’ve read in quite a while. Speak When You Have Something to Sell. If memory serves – this point is why my favorite Evil Genius hasn’t published …
Fermenting: “GnomeMower” – Biére de Garde
After a three batches of beers with 6+ month fermentation timelines ( “Marley was Dead“, “Out Like a Lion” , “Sour Suburbanite” ) I wanted something with a slightly, faster turnaround. And – less, um, experimental. So, I pulled together this Biére de Garde Golden Strong Ale. Simple and straight-forward ingredient list. “GnomeMower” Bier de …
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Fermenting: “Sour Suburbanite” – A Bitter Lambic
“Sour Suburbanite” Lambic recipe 6# Northern Brewer Organic Light Malt Extract 1# Maris Otter 2# Special B 1# Belgian Light Candi Sugar @ 15 2oz. Galena @ 60min 2oz. Galena @ 30min 2oz. Norther Brewer @ 5min WYeast’s Lambic Blend Original Gravity: 1050 Update 22 May 20100 Bottled today. Final Gravity 1004. Pre-carbonation tasting notes: …
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