” 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
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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 …
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’: …
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.” – …
“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.
“Just stop emailing me.”
“I am getting to the point where I want to stop everyone but people I know and work with from emailing me. I don’t want people calling me on my phone to sell me stuff or inform me of things that they think I should know. My email is rapidly becoming that way. No more …
Unblaze
“But a dangerous thing happens when we follow a trail: We stop paying attention to the environment. Since the trail is so easy to follow, we allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are.”- Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes
Bottoms up product management
“Much of what made Twitter useful in the first place – Hashtags, @user and many other little Twitter specific conventions are hacks that were first adopted by users because Twitter didn’t support several key functions like groups or addressing a note to a specific user. Twitter has made the colossal mistake of trying to integrate …
My Favorite Sentences of the Day
“The beggars huddle for warmth within things called ‘industries’” – Richard Fink “If every additional user is putting money in the developers’ pockets, then you’re less likely to see the site disappear overnight.” – maciej