“…Yet psychologists and behavioural economists (these charlatans) seem to think that it is a disease that needs to be remedied and cured. And pharmaceutical companies might one day come up with a pill for it. Few understand that, instead, one should lead a life in which procrastination is good, as a naturalistic decision-making.” – by …
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Could You Be Fully Entertained with Openly Licensed Creative Work?
The vast majority of my business is tied to open source software. The culture I work in expects it. Being able to read the source code, update as needed (without asking permission), and share freely is part of the business of building software. Yet, in my personal life, the expectation is that entertainment is all …
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A Living
“My goal has never been to dominate the market, my goal has always just been to just make a living.” – Marco Arment
Merlin Mann: Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are
“Some people don’t start making money until you forget who you are”
“Don’t just take a collection of your posts.”
“…when you meet someone and they ask for your business card, how cool will it be when you can say, ‘here, take my book instead.’” – James Altucher
Daily Reality Continued
“The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what I call ‘living in your calendar.’ That means taking your tasks off the to-do list, estimating how much time each of them will consume, and transferring them to your calendar.” – Daniel Markovitz I’ve been ‘living in my calendar’ for 18 months now – since I …
No.
“Never before has it been so important to say ‘no.’ No, I’m not going to read that article. No, I’m not going to read that email. No, I’m not going to take that phone call. No, I’m not going to site through that meeting.” – Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and …
The Open Web Needs Us
“We need to make it always-easier for people to own and run their own infrastructure. People think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be! Each of us can have the equiv of a printing plant, that’s the magic of tech. No harder to keep running than a laptop. To those people in tech who …
“Sometimes design is premature optimization”
“This happens when the complexity of building out the design is greater than the certainty that it’s the right design.” -destraynor This is why I don’t stress out about visual design – any more. Product design – yes, visual design – no. Too often I’ve seen visual design stall, distract, and diffuse product design questions.
I really need a mapping project
Between a great write up on how to build your own mapping service and the St. Louis Fed releasing a free MS Excel Add-in for their 30,000 data sets I’m itching to hack around on some maps.