- sbdc » Time, and the managing there of
Quote: "I thought it was noteworthy that in Max’s conversation he commented that in some professions there is a time when work is actually done. When you finish X that’s all there is for the day. When I worked as a professional graphic designer in the 90’s that was often the case – I’d have done everything I could and next steps were waiting on something from someone else so I could call it a day. But now, with the web, and social sites, and constant email there is never an end. There is always a flow of new things to do, so unless you consciously decide that you are going to put it down and do something else for X hours a day, you won’t. And before you know it you’ll be dead and will have wasted your life chasing likes on Facebook. Fuck that".
(categories: life culture time priorities budgeting ) - Office, messaging and verbs — Benedict Evans
Lots of great stuff in here, excerpt: "Just as today we make web app copies of software models conceived for the floppy disk, so the first PCs were often used to type up memos that were then printed out and sent though internal mail. It took time for email to replace internal mail and even longer for people to stop emailing Word files as attachments. Equally, we went from typing expense forms (with carbon copies) to entering them into a Word doc version of the form, to a dedicated Windows app that looked just like the form, to a web page that looked just like the form – and then, suddenly, someone worked out that maybe you should just take a photo of the receipt. It takes time, but sooner or later we stop replicating the old methods with the new tools and find new methods to fit the new tools. Hence, channeling Marshall McLuhan, new tools start out being made to fit the existing workflows, but over time the workflows change to fit the tools."
(categories: productivity software collaboration work workflow tools ) - The Web We Have to Save — Matter — Medium
Quote: "The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking."
(categories: blogging culture internet web ) - Futures of text | Whoops by Jonathan Libov
Excerpted excerpt: "Text is the most socially useful communication technology. It works well in 1:1, 1:N, and M:N modes. It can be indexed and searched efficiently, even by hand. It can be translated. It can be produced and consumed at variable speeds. It is asynchronous. It can be compared, diffed, clustered, corrected, summarized and filtered algorithmically. It permits multiparty editing. It permits branching conversations, lurking, annotation, quoting, reviewing, summarizing, structured responses, exegesis, even fan fic. The breadth, scale and depth of ways people use text is unmatched by anything."
(categories: chat text sms design messaging ui bots ) - "General Orders for Sentries" as perhaps the finest operations document of all time – SEBASTIAN MARSHALL
Interesting ops stuff.
(categories: operations process military )
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Links: 7-13-2015
- The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle – The New Yorker
Awesome!
(categories: portland science ) - Race Results For Fueled By Fine Wine – Half Marathon Results – Sunday, July 12, 2015
Did my first half marathon, I have a lot of work to do.
(categories: running exercise motivation )
Links: 7-10-2015
- Three takeaways for web developers after two weeks of painfully slow internet — Medium
Had never seen Chrome –> Developer Tools –> Device Mode –> Network speed.
(categories: performance web mobile http chrome ) - (Science) Fiction and Design — Hackerpreneur magazine — Medium
INSPIRING and AWESOME. So many great visualizations there, I loved the combination of the idea of a narrative near the bottom that’s then been marked up with green / yellow / red highlights but the whole thing is great.
(categories: design space ideas process )
Links: 7-9-2015
- Organizational Debt is like Technical debt – but worse | Steve Blank
Spot on, have been through this.
(categories: hiring culture hr people management startup ) - (8) Timeline Photos – Polar Explorer Eric Larsen
Quote: "Today I’m honoring Renan Ozturk, climber, artist, and filmmaker. Renan has been held at knifepoint in the deserts of Chad, sustained a traumatic head injury while backcountry skiing in the Tetons, and suffered through hallucinations on Himalayan big walls. Through it all, the cameras have been rolling. With his latest and most ambitious project, Meru, Ozturk- a feature-length documentary following Ozturk, Jimmy Chin, and Conrad Anker’s much heralded 2011 return to and first ascent of the Shark’s Fin on Meru in the Indian Himalaya. The climb itself required living on the wall for 12 days in temperatures that hovered around minus 20ºF. Ozturk was still recovering from cranial and spinal fractures sustained in a near-lethal skiing accident in Wyoming’s Tetons almost six months earlier. Ozturk topped off 2012 with the first successful completion of the Tooth Traverse, a five-mile-long enchainment of peaks in Alaska’s Ruth Gorge, and traveling to Nepal’s Khumbu region to work on a time-lapse photography and art project with Sherpa Cinema." So yeah… I think I sat in a bunch of meetings today.
(categories: life adventure courage culture goals ) - People Don’t Want Something Truly New, They Want the Familiar Done Differently. – Nir and Far
(categories: design product-design innovation sushi )