October 2011
26 posts
“Houston and his geeks have built tendrils into 18 different operating systems,...”
– Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech’s Hottest Startup - Forbes
“The psychologist Dean Simonton argues that this fecundity is often at the heart...”
– Xerox PARC, Apple, and the Creation of the Mouse : The New Yorker
“Most of the time we suck at something it’s not because we are bad....”
– Ben quotes Dmitry at WDS11, the big stonking post™ | the 200ok weblog
“In line with the notion that Siri reflects contemporary U.S. culture, it is...”
– Siri: Intersections of Gender, Economy, and Technology » Cyborgology
“I’m angry that nobody is willing to point out the obvious, dirty truth: when you...”
– The Truth about Success – Brick by Brick « Unicornfree
If you could give one piece of advice to another creative person starting out, what would it be?:
I think I would tell them to keep their pencil moving. What I mean by that is this: I think the more you stop and assess and compare your work to the work of others, the more you set up the potential to not feel good about your work. Whereas if you don’t over-think it and keep your mouse or pencil moving all the time, you allow your subconscious to bubble up to the surface and come out through your work. You have a greater chance of doing something really original if you don’t stop too much and question whether it’s good or not. Sure, a lot of it’s bad, but just move on. Keep sketching, keep drawing, keep creating. Don’t be afraid to kill your latest, dearest piece and move on from it... because the next thing you create might shatter some of the boundaries you had set for yourself on the previous thing.
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– This Sentence Has Five Words
Stream of Awesomeness: Heroes →
streamofawesomeness:
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
-Ernest Hemingway
Understatement of the year in whatever year he said that. I’m not old, but I’m getting older and I’m hurting for heroes. Once you leave school, learning is no longer structured. You have to figure…
“When you’re bootstrapping a new company, venture, or project, you have the...”
– dangerouslyawesome » How I Learned to Make Money
“I should note that the integration of popular design patterns at the syntax...”
– Why Dart is not the language of the future | Rafaël Garcia-Suarez [blogs.perl.org]
“All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better...”
– Nobody Cares // ben’s blog (via brianoberkirch)
Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Steve →
mrgan:
On January 9, 2007, I took the day off from work to watch Steve Jobs’ keynote. I stayed off iChat, and I told the people who were likely to contact me that day to please refrain from feeding me any info on what Apple announces that morning. I waited for the video feed to become available, which…
Pearl Jam & Ben Harper perform Indifference at...
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life....”
– RIP
Text of Steve Jobs’ Commencement address (2005)
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“People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them...”
– Elliott Smith (via elliottsmithappreciation)
“I have exactly one goal when I attend a conference. Through some bizarre and...”
– Rands In Repose: Building Serendipity
September 2011
27 posts
“Automation reduces institutional knowledge. Institutional knowledge leads to a...”
– Scaling GitHub’s Employees 