- YouTube – Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
Quote: "People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it."
(categories: inspiration leadership motivation culture ) - Open letter to BlackBerry bosses: Senior RIM exec tells all as company crumbles around him
Great letter from an employee at RIM to the management team at RIM.
(categories: blackberry business strategy mobile )
Links: 6-30-2011
- Corporate Organizational Charts Compared
Amazon, Google, Facebook, MS, Apple and Oracle.
(categories: culture management organization orgchart )
Links: 6-24-2011
- Pretenders: Why mobile Web apps should stop trying to act like native apps « cvil.ly
More on browser vs. native wrt mobile.
(categories: apps mobile mobile-web )
Links: 6-22-2011
- Practical Tips on Writing a Book from 23 Brilliant Authors | NeuroTribes
Quote in the context of writing a book for the first time: "First of all, I’ll have to throttle back my use of Twitter and Facebook to get this writing done (and I may never rev up my idle Quora account after all.) Secondly, scheduling intervals of regular exercise and renewal amid the hours of writing will be essential." True of anyone that’s going to get something substantial done IMHO.
(categories: books writing gtd focus culture twitter )
Links: 6-20-2011
- Life in IDE: Host and user name in log4j logs
How-to inject useful information into log4j output.
(categories: log4j logging debugging tools )
Links: 6-19-2011
- Mail not allowing me to delete messages?! – MacRumors Forums
Uncheck "Store Deleted Messages on the Server". Made my Father’s Day!
(categories: mail mail.app bugs )
Links: 6-16-2011
- inessential.com: weblog
Quote: "Beauty and fun and efficiency and discovery and relevance add up to delight."
(categories: design ux rss rssreader atom product-design )
Links: 6-15-2011
- ongoing by Tim Bray · “Web” vs. “Native”
More on the html web vs. native web.
(categories: mobile-web mobile android iphone ux ) - LinkedIn Hackday Video « Psychohistory
Fun video that does a great job illustrating some of the insides of the Linkedin engineering culture.
(categories: culture engineering hackathon linkedin ) - Wrigley Field is such a great experience, it doesn’t matter if the Chicago Cubs win – Grantland
Getting to go to my first Wrigley game this August, Cubs vs. Cardinals. Also, Grantland is good.
(categories: sports wrigley baseball grantland ) - All sizes | MailChimp Design Patterns | Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Title says it all.
(categories: design patterns ui ux )
Links: 6-14-2011
- Gabble – Yammer Mac client
Nice little OSX Yammer app.
(categories: osx yammer app )
Links: 6-13-2011
- Towards Effective Corporate Communications: Let Your Engineers do the Talking – James Governor’s Monkchips
Quote: "A little trust goes a long way." So true. Also, humans.txt is super cool.
(categories: management culture trust communication engineering entrepreneurship ) - Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines.
Nerd humor.
(categories: standards programming html culture ) - size – IntelliJ Idea disable font increase/decrease on CMD+scroll – Stack Overflow
Hate this.
(categories: idea programming tips settings ) - ASCII by Jason Scott / FaceFacts
Quote on Facebook: "…It is like an ever-burning fire of our memories, gleefully growing as we toss endless amounts of information and self and knowledge into it, only to have it added to columns of advertiser-related facts we do not see and do not control and do not understand."
(categories: facebook history internet culture meaning ) - Tech Wizards of the Silicon Forest
Commenters tear the article apart.
(categories: jobs portland entrepreneurship startups ) - Mobile Apps: User Expectations define User Experience
Good stuff on native vs. web for mobile.
(categories: mobile android iphone mobile-web ux product-design ) - Dating with data – O’Reilly Radar
Quote: "The core difference is in the category of revealed preferences. Imagine if you had a video camera in every bar and you could observe every interaction between two people and see the success rate of that interaction. We essentially have that video camera on our site." The reason revealed preferences are so important is that they track real-world behavior — what people really want rather than what they say they want. "When you get 12 messages and you only reply to three of them, you are voting with your time," Yagan said. "Or when a guy is shorter than you, you don’t reply."
(categories: math bigdata revealed-preferences okcupid statistics )