January 2012
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December 2011
6 posts
“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
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“These results are likely to have theorists going back over their models and...”
– Fundamental constants are not constan – or maybe they are, we don’t really know
November 2011
5 posts
wander wonder: Marina Abramovic. An artist’s life... →
lin-dahu:
1. An artist’s conduct in his life:
– An artist should not lie to himself or others – An artist should not steal ideas from other artists – An artist should not compromise for themselves or in regards to the art market – An artist should not kill other human beings – An artist should not make…
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Collapsing Time & Space →
Jack Dorsey, founder at Twitter and Square.
The Steve Jobs Biography
This review from Amazon sums it up:
This new, highly-anticipated bio is reasonably comprehensive in scope, but written in a plodding, subjectively fawning fashion that undercuts its impact. Mr. Isaacson doesn’t hail from the technology world, and it shows; his feel for the real importance of Jobs’ accomplishments is largely constrained to social impact (of the fuzzy, gee-whiz sort)...
“We treat our office like a library. It’s quiet. Very, very quiet....”
– Jason Fried from 37Signals on Creative Mornings I took the liberty of changing the shit out of this quote.
October 2011
7 posts
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A Dream
One day I told Andy that I was convinced that Apple and Pixar weren’t real. Or that they were, but only for me. That other people had completely different realities where completely different companies were successful. I found a perfect embodiment of my personality and aspirations in Pixar and Apple and thought that I was schizophrenic. I made them up so I felt I had a place I belonged.
I...
September 2011
7 posts
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Don Norman: Google doesn’t get people, it sells... →
It’s really not that complicated.
August 2011
11 posts
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“When you’re making a film — when you start to make it — it isn’t...”
– Ed Catmull, Pixar
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Everything is a Remix →
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Free and Open
It’s not “patents” that are attacking Android. It’s competing companies whose patents Google has violated — and whose business Android undermines — who are attacking Android.
Gruber goes apeshit on Google. It’s brutal. I kinda feel bad for Google. I mean, seriously, aren’t they just against patents? Patents are evil right? They’re so unnatural. What are you gonna patent the...
July 2011
10 posts
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clrtouch asked: what r u hacking at these days that has u so focused?
Design Critique: Products for People →
Whoa… lots of content here
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Flying High with doubleTwist
In the last decade, a few men changed the landscape of media. In 1997, Justin Frankel wrote WinAmp. In 1999, Shawn Fanning wrote Napster. In the same year, Jon Lech Johansen, and two others, wrote a program to decrypt commercial DVD’s. In 2001, Bram Cohen wrote BitTorrent.
Together, these disruptive technologies left Old Media flummoxed, as if raided by a foreign ship flying a black flag....
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Words from a Conscious Observer
Haven’t been writing these days in favor of working on product design. But all design and no writing makes Ketan a dull boy, so here are some random revelations:
Google+ is well designed. Andy Hertzfeld, who was on the development team of the original Macintosh, is a lead designer at Google+. Keep in mind that no single designer can be attributed to the successful execution of a product. It...
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June 2011
6 posts
