February 2012
“If he is a good designer the form he invents will penetrate the problem so...”
– Notes on the synthesis of form - Christopher Alexander - Google Books
“Although there was no difference in idea generation, giving the unconscious a...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Nietzsche stressed this point. As he observed in his 1878 book Human, All Too...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com
January 2012
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Quotes by Max Lucado at allpoetry
“I have breached the Administrator of usa.gov yesterday. That was fun. I went...”
– Hackers Around the World: Australian RAT S3rver Enthusiast - Softpedia
“2. I spend a long time studying the precedents. I look at every advertisement...”
– Letters of Note: I am a lousy copywriter
“It from bit. Otherwise put, every ‘it’—every particle, every field...”
– Digital physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Heterosexual” was actually coined in a letter at the same time as the word...”
– The invention of the heterosexual - Salon.com
“I think there is a lot of safety in categories. And there’s a hell of a lot of...”
– The invention of the heterosexual - Salon.com
“When you start operating on the principle that you indeed can divide people into...”
– The invention of the heterosexual - Salon.com
“For Banzi, this is perhaps the most important impact of Arduino: the...”
– The Making of Arduino - IEEE Spectrum
“There is indeed a common trait in the typical way creative thinkers approach...”
– The Truth: Creativity Comes From Blending Dissonant Goals Into Radical Harmony
Collaboration vs Solitude isn’t the dichotomy that seems to have been the de jour talk over the last two weeks. Any form of work takes multiple methods to get to an end. The real challenge is how ideas are communicated...
“Dusting off and turning on the machine, I pressed eject and found NBA Live 2005...”
– An Old Xbox Reveals the Secret Lives of a Good Friend
Watch(via Las Vegas Helicopter footage c.1968 Video by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown documentary - Myspace Video)
“If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take him as he should be,...”
– Viktor Frankl — Why to believe in others at Farnam Street
“Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not...”
– Seth’s Blog: Who cares?
“But burners can be a pain. For maximum security, phones need to be switched as...”
– The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
“The leader of the crew believed he was under surveillance, and Martin made them...”
– The Mercenary Techie Who Troubleshoots for Drug Dealers and Jealous Lovers
“Often, we’re hesitant to identify a problem out of fear we can’t...”
– Seth’s Blog: Solving problems (vs. identifying them)
“The original Glock 17, the model adopted by the Austrian army, contained only 36...”
– How The Glock Became America’s Weapon Of Choice : NPR
“No more shipping huge amounts of products around the world. No more shipping...”
– The Pirate Bay: ‘The Next Step in Copying Will Be Made From Digital Form Into Physical Form’ - Megan Garber - Technology - The Atlantic
“The future will look very different as we strip the information-carrying...”
– The High Cost of Low Bandwidth by Bill Davidow (via poptech)
“Women who have savings do not want to speak about them, as there is extreme...”
– IMTFI Blog: Gender, Cash, and the Mobile in Papua New Guinea
“Our research shows that, contrary to general belief, cash is important in the...”
– IMTFI Blog: Gender, Cash, and the Mobile in Papua New Guinea
“Any reference to constraints that limit creativity is just another way of...”
– northtemple - Any reference to constraints th…
“Jumping in and immediately starting to build the product, even if it does get...”
– Bill Buxton, via Konigi (via morebetterblog)
“All the things matter. All the different parts are important. All the...”
– The New Year Games: what was all that about, then? | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play (via iamdanw)
“I reflected today on the fact that my four-year-old makes a “click”...”
– In praise of skeuomorphs - Boing Boing
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This saying, some...”
– Regret Analysis: The Retention of the Past | Ideas, Footnotes & Revelations
Open-plan Offices Suck — Privacy Makes Us... →
“Build something that fixes the insanity of modern education. Or helps people...”
– A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“E. B. White was amused to learn from a farmer friend that many electrified...”
– A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“The challenge is that while most of these folks know that they want design in...”
– A List Apart: Articles: An Important Time for Design
“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“Developing a skill is painful, though. It is difficult. And that’s part of the...”
– Ohio University Commencement Address « Atul Gawande
“Casually mentioning a female instead of a male name was sufficient to impair...”
– Sex on the Brain Proves Costly for Men - Miller-McCune
“Much of private-sector ethnography is as banal as it is ironic. In its bland...”
– Does corporate ethnography suck? A cultural analysis of academic critiques of private-sector ethnography (Part 1 of 2) | Ethnography Matters
“The man, called Patron X by the Philharmonic, said he was a lifelong classical...”
– Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to Stop Shame - NYTimes.com
