August 2011
Seth Godin on typography. →
The choice of a typeface, the care given to kerning and to readability—it all sends a powerful signal. When your business card is nothing but Arial on a piece of cardboard, you’ve just told people how they ought to think about you… precisely the opposite of what you were trying to do when you made the card in the first place.
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Internet in Mexico, Starting a Long Journey →
Great… more and more people are using the internet in Mexico. My question is… why are there no big mexican sites? All (or most) of the sites mentioned bellow are from the US, Argentina or Brazil.
At the moment, the most popular retail destination by far is the Argentine website MercadoLibre.
MercadoLibre is part of a trend in the country; the Brazilian shopping comparison tool...
H-P's One-Year Plan →
Let’s say you were given a year to kill Hewlett-Packard. Here’s how you do it: …
No comment. Actions speak for themselves.
Evenings are too short. I could extend them into the night but my body and brain don’t function properly late at night.
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Mexico's economy: The cartel problem →
Mexico could be a giant if only it forced its moguls to compete.
The Economist
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“Grit requires passion. Grit requires love. And love is just another name for...”
– Jonah Lehrer - Love Is The Opposite Of Underwear
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3 clear reasons to change careers →
[…] if you’re not interested enough in a subject to research it, read about it, play with it, and find others to talk about it – it’s probably not the career for you.
zen habits
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“The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are...”
– Steve Jobs
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“If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy...”
– Steve Jobs
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“[…] when I think about leadership, passion and attention to detail, I...”
– Vic Gundotra - Icon Ambulance
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Steve Jobs’s Patents →
The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products — from the company’s iconic computer cases to the glass staircases that are featured in many Apple stores.
Impressive list, although I’m not a fan of patents.
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Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes →
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next. Steve Jobs
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“Here’s the thing: Even Mark isn’t Mark Zuckerberg.
This notion...”
– Seth’s Blog: Mark Zuckerberg isn’t Mark Zuckerberg
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Why Software Is Eating the World →
Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming. This includes even industries that are software-based today.
I love software, it is my art and my craft. It is my brush and canvas, my hammer and stone. I’m lucky to be a software engineer in a world which is increasingly being run by software. I have a lot to learn, a lot of room for improvement and great...
H-P’s TouchPad and WebOS have been killed - and... →
The Ring [Apple’s new campus] will sit partly on a 98-acre parcel of land that Apple bought from Hewlett-Packard last year, after they demolish all of the buildings. HP no longer needed the space.
And to think that the Apple II was designed by Steve Wozniak at night in his office while working at HP. Little did they know that their employee’s creation (which they had a chance to...
Is It Time for a New Job? - John Lees - Harvard... →
Most of us would love every opportunity to be presented on a plate, every career decision to be obvious. Right now it’s easy to hear the advice, “this is a bad time to be changing jobs.” The reality is that I have heard that phrase, year after year, for two decades.
Go or, stay — but do it for the right reasons.
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Twitter Bootstrap →
Twitter has released an open source web toolkit. It looks to be a subset of the system used on the “new” Twitter webapp.
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites.
It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.
It’s very clean, lean and well structured. I’m not a...
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“In the tablet world, we’re going to become better than number one. We call it...”
– HP’s Eric Cador (three months before HP discontinued its tablets and smartphones)
HP tested webOS on an iPad. It ran over twice as... →
When HP announced its acquisition of Palm, the computing giant had already built the TouchPad hardware that sits on the shelves today. Basically, the TouchPad was a two-year old piece of hardware that the webOS team equipped with their tablet-friendly platform.
When HP bought Palm I hoped they would really push webOS and commit to it but apparently they drastically failed to see it’s...
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Bottlenecks in the brain limit our ability to... →
Recognizing new information in your surroundings and incorporating it into your view of the world is referred to as “encoding,” while reacting to stimuli and making decisions is termed “response selection.” They’re distinct processes, but they utilize some of the same parts of the brain, so it’s possible that the brain can have trouble if asked to perform...
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THE TROUBLE WITH TUMBLR ASK BOXES →
I personally like the fact that Tumblr is it’s own thing and that they are experimenting with different way of doing things. It’s what makes Tumblr different from any other site. Tumblr has grown as a social network without having the conventional messages and comment systems. You express yourself with your posts and learn about others by viewing their posts. By communicating with each...
The Word of Notch: Hey, Bethesda! Let's settle... →
I challenge Bethesda to a game of Quake 3. Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, your select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.
If we win, you drop the lawsuit.
If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with.
(via notch)
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Spoilers Don’t Spoil Anything →
Just because we know the end doesn’t mean there aren’t surprises. Even when I cheat and read the final pages first, a good thriller will still surprise me with how it gets there. Perhaps we’ve overvalued the pleasure of the shocking ending at the expense of those smaller astonishments along the way. It’s about the narrative journey, not the final destination.
One of my favorite books ever is...
