Blog – page 19 of 30

Short posts and notes.

• These artifacts are often found outside the city center. | Indexed

• Design like nobody’s watching [comic]

• Do This

  Do This

• 31 Step Financial Tuneup

  This is old but still useful. The New York Times has a personal finance check list with tons of useful links, calculators, videos, and other tools and media.

• from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  We hurry and push and hustle, for the good of humanity! ‘The world is becoming too noisy, too commercial!’ groans some solitary thinker. ‘Undoubtedly it is, ...

• As James Joyce said, “In the particular lies the universal.” (via Op-Ed: In…

• Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface

  A good graphic designer understands how to arrange information on the page so the reader can ask and answer questions, make comparisons, and draw conclusions...

• Done is best...

  It is better than “thinking about.” It is better than “started.” It is better than “perfect.”

• The Psychology of Social Commerce

  Tab Juice, a social e-commerce platform, has an interesting infographic on some of the psychological influences that go on in the minds of online shoppers.

• Branding is easier than it appears (via xkcd: Brand Identity )

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• Don’t use math. (via Dilbert comic strip for 12/19/2011 from the official…

• Computer Triage

  Rands has a handy flow chart for solving your own or other people’s computer problems.

• Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities | 43 Folders

  A priority is observed, not manufactured or assigned. Otherwise, it’s necessarily not a priority. Got that? You can’t “prioritize” a list of 20 tasks any mor...

• Left brain / Right brain (via Ads of the World )

• 2011 Winners of the National Geographic Photo Contest

  Alan Taylor published the winners of the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest

• The Future of Science

  The Institute for the Future has an exploration of ideas for what they see as the future of science.

• Dolphin Jet Pack

  Yes, this water based jet pack does let you swim like a dolphin.

• GTD Advice Made Easy

  David Allen, author of the often cited book Getting Things Done, broke down his system into very simple sections to make it easier to adopt.

• Seth’s Blog: The extraordinary revolution of media choice

  In a world of surfers, all you can do is work to make the best wave you can. The real revolution is that you get to make waves, not just ride them.

• Social business planning

  Organizations and individuals face a new field on which to compete. Planning the social aspects of business is now a critical factor for success.

• msg : arig : Albert Einstein - I have no special talents. I am only…

• Merlin Mann, Cranking | 43 Folders

  Threats–like hurricanes and rectal exams–are only scary until they arrive. Once they’re over, they’re just the basis for funny stories. But, you do nearly al...

• Identifying conflicts in a UI design - (Ryan Singer)

  These three areas — the domain, the eye/brain, and the implementation — intertwine with each other. A single element may have conflicts in one area or all th...

• Quick 50 Writing Tools [PDF]

  Quick 50 Writing Tools [PDF]

• The Technology of Global Unrest (kk.org)

  You can’t spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network and not begin to think that the rest of your world should also operate in the s...

• Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers

  Keep it small. Keep it simple. Let it happen.

• The Cult of Done

  I posted something on this before, but I found a pictoral version of the message as well as the text the image is based on.

• The Supercut

  Kevin Kelly has some insights on how the new genre of supercuts will work behind the scenes to keep movies and videos fresh by pointing out the absurdity of ...

• Jerry Seinfeld explains the appeal of Facebook, long before the site…

• James Taranto, from Sexual Harassment Stories .

  The fallen nature of man is gender-neutral. Some men are pigs, and some women are liars. Current sexual harassment law deals justly and effectively with the ...

• Tool-Makers

  The world is full of great tools. With them anything is possible. But the paint brush does not make the painter. The pen does not make the poet.

• Commuting is Expensive

  It costs a lot to commute everyday. I’m glad to have a reliable bike.

• Easier Is Better Than Better - Smashing Magazine

  People choose not on the basis of what’s most important, but on what’s easiest to evaluate.

• Types of Online Engagement

  Are we paying attention less or just paying attention to more things at once?

• The Personalized Web

  The internet is a vast ocean of knowledge, spread wide and deep with facts and opinion.

• What do you think about books?

  A simple questionair on What the Book can help you determine the kind of reader you are as you answer questions like this:

• Today

  Every idea needs space to breathe. That is how you sort out the good ideas from the mediocre ones. That is how you decide what is important to work on next, ...

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• 21 suggestions for success (via @thecoolhunter )

• The Beauty Of A Second

• G.K. Chesterton in The Club of Queer Trades (via gkchestertonquote )

  Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

• The Expert Enough Manifesto ( via )

• (via xkcd: Citogenesis )

• Knowing how to hide your sources.

• designoclock : Tom Garbor

• A history of philosophical inquiry. What does it mean?

• A painfully accurate airplane seating chart. (via Pleated Jeans )

• 10 fact about you. All were true for me.

• Harvard Sailing Team - Boys Will Be Girls (by HSTSketchComedy )