Garrick van Buren – Page 44 – About time. And product. And being more deliberate.

Open Loop #7 – Turtle Turtle Turtle

Beer: Jamie – Bakken Bock, Garrick – Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale 2013 (BCJP Style Guidelines – American Barleywine)
Sam Adams’ Triple Bock (Microbrewed Adventures has the homebrew recipe)
tiny Kubb
Holiday Projects
WikiApiary
Avi Briant on Smalltalk’s Lessons for Ruby
wiki.kernest.com

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 first drew up the Daily Reality Planner. I’ve found it to be an excellent tool to set reasonable expectations (if only for myself).

Even though not everything I schedule needs to be done at that specific time – making that declaration helps me a) commit to it and b) mentally prepare for doing it.

Good things.

Slab City – Opting out of Public Services

A nearby RV has a generator. There’s no running water, no power lines, no sewage service and no trash pickup, which can give the place a Mad Max post-apocalyptic feel. Rusted bicycles and box springs peek through small mountains of twisted metal. – Gloria Hillard

+Creeping

“There are times I don’t want to be marketed to.” – Dave Winer

“Either what I create is remarkable or what I create is unread.”

” I don’t want to make it easy to share what I write. If it’s as remarkable as it ought to be, it will be shared. There will not, however, be any casual tweets or likes. Besides, those buttons waste a lot of space and tend to ruin the reading experience.” – J. D. Bentley

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 Get the Right Things Done

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 still hold to the ideal of free communication unrestricted by government or corporations, please use some of your profits to help guarantee the future of an independent Internet.” – Dave Winer

Your ‘Friends’ Are Making You Unhappy

“Those who have used Facebook longer agreed more that others were happier, and agreed less that life is fair, and those spending more time on Facebook each week agreed more that others were happier and had better lives” – Hui-Tzu Grace Chou & Nicholas Edge, “‘They Are Happier and Having Better Lives than I Am’: The Impact of Using Facebook on Perceptions of Others’ Lives”

Gizmodo Encourages Unfriendship

“When in doubt…Err on the antisocial side. If you’re not sure whether to keep someone in your fake digital social life or not, remind yourself that it’s a fake digital social life and trim the fat. The people who actually matter will never be on the chopping block to begin with. Chop chop. Chop.” – Sam Biddle

“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.