September 2011
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Change is what keeps you moving forward. If you don’t tolerate or are afraid of change then you leave no room for growth. If you feel stuck; change, move on, move forward, take a leap of faith. Don’t pray or hope for things to get better, do something about it. If you fail, do something about it. Change and action are what keeps the world moving.
The forever recession (and the coming revolution) →
Job creation is a false idol. The future is about gigs and assets and art and an ever-shifting series of partnerships and projects. It will change the fabric of our society along the way. — Seth Godin
“Out of clutter, find simplicity, from discard, find harmony, in the middle of...”
– Albert Einstein (via berrynice)
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parislemon: "Free" →
What a day for Android. It was just pushed behind the scenes as the thing that powers that awesome, cheap Amazon Kindle tablet. And made into that thing you pay Microsoft to use.
— parislemon
Warning: What follows might be a structureless rant. I blame hunger. I promise I’ll eat something after I finish the rant.
I think the Android experiment hasn’t gone as well as Google...
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I’m close to finishing my Goodreads book challenge of reading 25 books in 2011. Granted, I’ve read a couple of very short books but I’ll still have almost 3 months to read several more. I’ll probably end up reading at least 30 books this years. I would ask for recommendations but I have quite a backlog of books to read in my to-read list. Nevertheless, if you know any must...
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Git Is Simpler Than You Think →
Git’s overloaded, confusing language is absolutely the only part of it that sucks. They meant well. They chose words that sound familiar, like branch, checkout, tag, merge. But they often mean different things. Then you get the feeling that, as features were added and rethought, they just picked new unused words as they went along. Stage, fetch, rebase, remotes.
— nfarina
And this is why...
Volkswagen Beetle →
Go to this site and scroll.
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Did you know that the Japanese Shinkansen train... →
connectedtravelling:
In 2004, due to typhoons, the Shinkansen total annual delays were 42 seconds. It was a disgrace to Japan. (source)
If a train were to be late for 5 minutes, everyone receives a free journey and an apology from the conductor. If a train is delayed 10 minutes, it would be in the newspaper.
So to say train delays are serious business would be an understatement. And last...
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“Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room...”
– Henry Rollins (via suzywire)
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Xcode 4 Speed Boost
If Xcode 4 starts slowing down while working on a project, you should delete the project.xcworkspace file within your project’s .xcodeproj package. Xcode 4 had become so slow that the beach ball was appearing even when just editing text. After deleting the project.xcworkspace file Xcode’s speed and memory usage improved drastically.
I don’t know why I didn’t Google this...
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Why Being Relaxed Makes Us Spend Too Much Money |... →
[…] subjects who were more relaxed thought less about particulars – the specific cost of the gadget or the dangers of the risky behavior – and more about the abstract pleasures they were trying to purchase.
That’s why people tend to spend too much money when they’re on vacation and get a heart attack when they get their credit card bill back home.
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The Skill that Matters Most →
[…] the more conscious effort you expend to build new behaviors — the more you use will and discipline — the quicker you burn down your reservoir, and the more likely you are to revert to your old behaviors.
That’s why the ultimate secret to self-control is to build something we call “rituals” — meaning highly precise behaviors, done at specific times, until they become automatic so they...
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Firefly
These past few weeks I watched the only 15 episodes that survived the cancelation of the show which spawned countless fans. Well, perhaps not countless given that the show was canceled before the completion of its first season. I had heard a lot about it for several years but my curiosity never got the best of me so I didn’t watch it until now. I’m glad I did.
Set in a space adventuring future...
Focusing On Focus →
We worry about the periodic table instead of persistence, spelling instead of self-control.
That’s almost certainly a mistake. Given the age in which we live, it makes no sense to obsess over the memorization of facts that can be looked up on a smartphone.
Wired Science
Since I was in elementary school I always hated classes which forced us to memorize things. I always sucked at...
Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of... →
Goodreads has added recommendations. A very useful feature on any service/site but specially in a site about books.
They recommended this book to me and I was sold just by reading the first 6 words of the description:
A brilliant “Sherlock Holmes” of neuroscience […]
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Wash away
Just helped the colleague who bought my washing machine move it from my bathroom to his car. When I returned to take a shower and turned on the bathroom lights I noticed it wasn’t as bright as it used to be. No, it’s not that the washing machine made the bathroom shine but it turned out that two lightbulbs stopped working in mourning for their friend who will stop making music every...
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Thinking in Tumblr →
I had a Tumblr epiphany. I began following more of what people call “single-serving Tumblrs” […] My Tumblr is far from single-serving, but it has now become a visual map of my interests, notes on my enthusiasms, in a less self-conscious (and less articulate) way than this blog. There’s something so pleasant about seeing wonderful things, new things and old things, with...
Lessons from Valve – How to build a designer’s... →
Hire the best creators, then step back and give them the freedom (and the time) to create.
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One thing I never got from Germany…
Why do drunk men (at least I assume they are drunk) like to chant so much?
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“Attention is a subset of time, therefore it’s more limited. How you spend your...”
– Jason Fried - 37signals in Your attention please
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How Tumblr Created A Design Culture With No Design... →
Only 45 people are on staff, including a surprisingly tiny product team consisting of five people. And for such a design-savvy, image-driven platform, here’s the most surprising fact of all: Tumblr’s design department consists of only one designer […]
Fast Company
The company as a whole seems to have a good understanding on the simplicity factor which characterizes...