Garrick van Buren – Page 55 – About time. And product. And being more deliberate.

Booked

Dear ebook backers,

For too long I’ve been uninspired to write – and for too long, I’ve been sufficiently distracted by a small child (well, three of them).

Over the weekend, I found a new vision for the ebook project.

Something much more timeless than what you’ve already read.

Something more representative of my adventure in opt-out.

First step: updated editorial calendar.

Albert and I Talk Facebook and Facebook Stores

Earlier this week, Albert Maruggi asked for my comments on the reported decrease in Facebook users and the increase in corporate Facebook stores.

As always w/ Albert, it was an enjoyable conversation that he included as part of his ongoing Marketing Edge podcast.

Listen to me and Albert Maruggi talk Facebook stores

The Same is True for Email

“The user interface has to evolve to be much less email-like, and everything has to get way easier than it is now.” – Brent Simmons

Retweet!

“it doesn’t seem like an all together bad time to be off Twitter.” – Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary

There’s a New Internet Era Approaching…

Tonight I read two articles, one on:

Separately and combined, both are such a mind grenade it can only mean one thing.

Loosely Interesting

“Loose federations of heterogenous interests with high incentives to integrate are so much more interesting than centralized organizations.” – erikpukinskis

Bitrayal

“The only difference is most of the users won’t ever know they were deeply and constantly betrayed. Users got so much used to crap, so they forgot how to differentiate between starships and crap.”

Fermenting: Broken Gnome – Belgian Dubbel Rye

My neighbors have a fantastic garden gnome. Turns out, it hit a rough patch a while back and needed significant repair. Immediately I knew this story needed a commemorative beer.

10# Belgian Pilsner Malt
2# Rye Malt
2# Belgian Biscuit Malt
1.0 oz Crystal hops @ 60
1.5 oz Crystal hops @ 30
1.5 oz Crystal hops @ 15
Wyeast Belgian Ardenes (3522)

Inspired by J’s comment, I gave the brew-in-a-bag technique a try for this beer. So far, I’m extraordinarily happy with the process. Straight forward all around. Took about 4 hours total (30 min set up + 60 min mash + 60 min boil + 45 min cool down + 30 min cleanup).

Broken Gnome on Hopville

OG 1.068
IBU 22.3
BU:GU 0.32 (malty/sweet)

The URL Shortener Subcommittee

“We believe that [URL shorteners] pose a serious threat to the internet’s integrity. If one of them dies, gets hacked or sells out, millions of links will stop working. Thus we preemptively release backups, because URL shorteners are too busy to make backups themselves.”

Writing the Great American Startup

“The ‘Great American Novel’ is the concept of a novel that is distinguished in both craft and theme as being the most accurate representative of the zeitgeist in the United States at the time of its writing.” (wikipedia)

“My current theory is that programming is quite literally writing. The vast majority of programming is not conceptually difficult… We only make it difficult because we suck at writing. The vast majority of programmers aren’t fluent, and don’t even have a desire to be fluent. They don’t read other people’s code. They don’t recognise or use idioms. They don’t think *in the programming language*. Most code sucks because we have the fluency equivalent of 3 year olds trying to write a novel.” – wrook