I use a piece of paper from a cheap minispiral notebook as blotting paper in my Moleskines.I like writing with Pilot G2s, but they don’t dry on Moleskine paper as quickly as I write. So I ran into the problem of ink bleeding from one page to the facing page if I close the book [...]
I’m moving away from perfectionism, hopefully to a more productive flow-state of releasing ideas in draft form and gathering earlier feedback. This blog is a part that – in progress on lots of levels, from focus to design. Public rapid prototyping.Speaking of which, I’m noticing a trend. Thomas Leonard was doing it. Flickr and Gmail [...]
Last week I spent two evenings engrossed in blog setup. The particular software I’m using (Typo) isn’t too well documented. Installing it requires stepping out of the GUI and into the command-line. That’s something I don’t do too often. Long story short, I hit some rocks, got some help (thanks, Typo community!), and around 3am [...]
Have you ever tried to sell an idea, product, or service that could be classified as a counterintuitive “good”, at least at first glance?
37signals encourages software companies to have “less features” to win more users (and less traffic signs!)
Several marketing gurus suggest companies give away some expertise in order to make more money.
In Blink, Malcolm [...]
To keep myself on track, I should lay out some thoughts on why the blog is here. These are subject to renegotiation as needed.
Defense of my honor. While meeting up Dave Gray, Riaz, and Toby Getsch in Bellevue on Wednesday, I committed to starting a blog or being publicly accused of lies. Here it is, [...]