Sometimes you could use a small boost on a web project. Maybe the small boost is help refining a use experience design. Maybe it’s quickly building out the first version of a new web app. Maybe it’s simply having access to a trusted advisor on a regular basis. These projects don’t require a full-time user …
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On-going List of Unpublished Books I’ll Happily Pre-Order
I only have one right now. “4. Alex Tabarrok should write a book reconciling his Randian youth with his current views. The book would begin by convincing social scientists that Ayn Rand’s views are at least plausible. Then he would explain which arguments he’s rejected, which ones he still believes, and why. Working title (there’s …
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Minimum Viable Product as 5-Words or Fewer
8 years ago or so, I was helping an client build out a new business unit. Their first step – add a checkbox to their ecommerce checkout process. Their question to me: “Where do we put the checkbox?” The entirety of this new business and the aspirations of the entire team – rolled up into …
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Mental Exercise: Price Free Retail Stores
This past summer, I entertained the idea of purchasing a couple tables at the community garage sale and loading them up with my basement full of stuff-in-need-of-a-better-home. And price everything at $0. Primarily, because I can’t imagine spending the time determining a price for each and every thing, labeling it, handling money, and risk justifying …
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Building CitizenWausau.com
In First Crack #123 – Building CitizenWausau.com, I call up Dino Corvino and Andy Laub, the editor and technologist respectively, to discuss the project, how it’s grown, and it’s relationship with more established media in a smaller city market.
The Relationship Between Usability and Security
Put on your tin foil hat and join John Hoffoss and me for a tour of computer security threats, exploits, and vulnerabilities – and their relationship the usability. And yes, if you pull the hat down far enough – Twitter and Facebook are two of the most significant threats to network security yet. First Crack …
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Cold Start #1 – Prototyping MVPs and Insulation
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Cold Start #0 – About the Cold Start Podcast
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Innately Index Me
This morning Andy Parkinson pointed to his Innate Index project. And since narcissism is the perfect way to start a Monday, I indexed myself. That’s the graph above. “The Innate Index is a brief personality inventory based on the five factor personality model that has been shown to be associated with a variety of school, …
Tasting Mikkeller’s Civet Coffee Stout
What’s it take to get me podcasting again? How about Danish brewery Mikkeller putting poop-ed out coffee in their beer. Yep. That’ll do it. First Crack 121. Drink Beer from a Cat’s Butt: Tasting of Mikkeller’s Beer Geek Brunch