Garrick van Buren – Page 27 – About time. And product. And being more deliberate.

Towards a Longer Horizon

“…there’s an awful lot of effort being expended that is just never going to result in meaningful, truly disruptive innovation. And I think that’s a problem.” – Max Levchin

Gulp.

“To risk sounding like a broken record, why support a company that treats you like a criminal? I choose not to.” – jdeslip

Uncapping Innovation

” I believe that open access to technology breeds future innovation and that this innovation literally defines us as culture. As evidence, I believe the success of the most important innovation of our time, the open internet, is a direct result of the availability of the open-source standards such as html and open platforms like Linux, Apache, MySQL and other open projects.” – jdeslip

Oh You Mean

What We’re Here to Build

Inspired by:
MPR: IT workers largely shielded from economy’s woes

Change Must

Done.

With just 1 message a day…

… The Listserve has renewed my faith in the Internet.

Just Solve the Problem Month

“What I know to be true is that there are a number of “problems” out there that need to be solved, that need one single thing to push them from “impossible” to “solved”, or, at least, “1.0″. And that thing that it needs is a lot of human thinking. Often rote, often boring, but necessary, to slam that thing out.” – Jason Scott

An inspirational read proclaiming November 2012 as “SOLVE THE FILE FORMAT PROBLEM MONTH.”.

The Good Fight

“So over the next two weeks I fought off the urge to login or participate. And when I say, ‘fought’, I mean it…When I left out the desire to share the moments we were together on Facebook or Twitter I found myself involved in it, present. I had no concern about how I would make someone laugh or if the post would be ‘Liked’.” – Kris Smith

Stop Shedding

“Your email is about to be sent to several hundred thousand people, who will have to spend at least 10 seconds reading it before they can decide if it is interesting. At least two man-weeks will be spent reading your email. Many of the recipients will have to pay to download your email. Are you absolutely sure that your email is of sufficient importance to bother all these people?” – Poul-Henning Kamp, circa 1999