Archive for the ‘Do Something Now’ Category
Friday, February 1st, 2008
Jens Alfke's latest blog post rambles about a couple of things but finishes on something that I really empathised with:Apple engineer: …and the layout needs to take into account ligatures and contextual forms, where adjacent letters change glyphs depending on neighboring characters, or even merge into a single glyph.
Sun engineer: ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
I'm a firm believer in a society founded on a results-based economy. Now that may be a term used by financial whizzkids out there in the real world, but what I mean here is that in your interactions with people daily, you should be considering the end result - what ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
-Ayn Rand.
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Mahatma Gandhi dictated the seven blunders of the world to his nephew.
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle
and an eighth added by his nephew:
Rights without responsibilities
As a father, husband (to be), business owner, people manager, taxpayer and ex-scientist, I find that a ...
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I want the updates from friends, I want their photos and little messages but I'm utterly bored of the little crappy apps that everyone wants me to install. I really don't care for them. I install them to see the messages that friends send and 90% of the time it's ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:_attachmentStorageDirectory withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:nil];
NSLog(@"Directory created!");
Anyone who knows me, knows I'm not a programmer. I speak Hello World in about 8 languages. Not very impressive. I've been able to hack a little php and javascript in the past and ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Steven Aitchison writes on his three pillars of creativityDo it aloneDo it with available tools and materialDo it anytime, anywhere
Do it alone
This is more a criticism of committees. You can certainly brainstorm with a few people to be creative but using these as springboards for ideas and not as decision ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Via Inter-Actions, Jim Buckmaster, CEO of Craigslist says:
No meetings, ever. "I find them stupefying and useless."
No management programmes and no MBAs. "I've always thought that sort of thing was baloney."
Forget the figures. "We are consistently in the black, so if we do better or worse in any given quarter it ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
I don't think there's enough meat to make this into a GTD or even a DSN-style mantra.
I've been thinking about outcome based actions. This is where you make decisions on your next action based not on what you want to do now but rather based on what result you might ...
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Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Okay....we're more than two weeks into January and I've managed to keep all of my resolutions so far. That's quite an achievement. Even the one about losing weight :)
A friend of mine seems to have kept a resolution to dump the Internet. I think that's a bit extreme. The Internet ...
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