- The enterprise: buyers versus users – Chris Dixon
Lots of good stuff in the comments.
(categories: enterprise sales corporate )
Links: 12-1-2011
- Crowdin.net – Collaborative translation tool
Super interesting tool for i18n / translations.
(categories: i18n crowdsourcing language tools ) - (9) Is there a better alternative to the 5-star rating system? – Quora
Great answer / insight from Netflix Engineering VP on ratings systems.
(categories: ratings feedback rewards netflix )
Links: 11-23-2011
- Brainstorm Print and Design – Silkscreen Poster Shop!
Some cool art for kids.
(categories: art kids posters )
Links: 11-20-2011
- Google Reader — Mac OS Lion UI – Themes and Skins for Google.* – userstyles.org
So much better than the default Google Reader style.
(categories: design extensions googlereader css customization )
Links: 11-17-2011
- Twitter / @odonnell004: @rands I love the note tha …
Quote: "Time is a great indication of priority".
(categories: management priorities focus ) - Yahoo’s Brad Garlinghouse Makes His Power Move | TechCrunch
Not sure if this is the first instance of a mention of a "peanut butter strategy", but it’s a great memo
(categories: strategy focus priorities business management )
Links: 11-13-2011
- powerpig.ca/lego_ornaments/death_star/death_star_ornament_instructions_v2.pdf
Yes, yes I did just buy all the parts for this.
(categories: lego holidays ) - Rands In Repose: The Rands Test
Similar in spirit to the Joel Test, except more organizational / people based.
(categories: management process engineering career culture )
Links: 11-11-2011
- The Social Graph is Neither (Pinboard Blog)
So many good quotes in this essay.
(categories: culture facebook social socialsoftware socialgraph )
Links: 10-31-2011
- Parkinson’s Law of Triviality – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I like "bike shedding" as a name better, but a whole law, that’s cool too.
(categories: design gtd business organization engineering ) - The Black Swan (Taleb book) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anti-Library…. thanks Chris!
(categories: books reading knowledge )
Links: 10-30-2011
- Quote by Michael Crichton: "Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as…"
Wet streets cause rain.
(categories: news newspapers data research culture ) - The Freight Train That Is Android « abovethecrowd.com
One of Warren Buffet’s most famous quotes is that “In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable ‘moats’.” An “economic castle” is a great business, and the “unbreachable moat” is the strategy or market dynamic that heightens the barriers-to-entry and makes it difficult or ideally impossible to compete with, or gain access to, the economic castle.
(categories: business strategy google android mobile ) - ORM is an anti-pattern | Seldo.Com Blog
- Why is my Mac slow? Top 10 DTrace Tune Up Tips for OS X « Joyeur
Really interesting stuff if you’re into performance tuning.
(categories: osx dtrace performance tuning optimization ) - A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs – NYTimes.com
Steve’s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
(categories: steve-jobs apple inspiration )
Links: 10-23-2011
- Conway’s Law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
…organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
(categories: architecture design business programming )