November 29, 2011
Jason Fried, Founder of 37signals and Co-Author of “REWORK”: “Coming to know the difference between obvious, easy, and possible takes a lot of practice, deep thinking, critical analysis, and, often, debate. It’s a constant learning process. It helps you figure out what really matters.
But once you’re able to see the buckets clearly, and you begin to think about things in terms of obvious, easy, and possible instead of high, medium, and low priority, you’re on your way to building better products.”
Source: “The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible”
Labels: Designing
November 28, 2011
Design is only one part of the puzzle: savor the discussion, development, debate, and dissemination of your work just as much as the making of it.
Rob Giampietro
Principal at Project Projects
Source: Rob Giampietro on Design, Writing, and Pedagogy
Via: Thought You Should See This
Labels: Defining Design
November 16, 2011
Author Ann Patchett, Co-Owner of Parnassus Books in Nashville: “In a smaller store … you are the person making the choices to get really good books. You are the one who, by your intelligent ordering and good reading, is sort of cutting through a lot of the junk and bringing books that people really want to read. … We’ve all had the experience of going into a three-story Barnes & Noble and saying, ‘I didn’t really find anything I wanted read.’ But you can go in to a small store with an intelligent staff … [and] well-displayed, well-chosen books, and come out with five books that you’re dying to read. And that’s what we’re going to do.”
Source: “Ann Patchett Opens Parnassus Books In Nashville” by NPR
Labels: Business
November 9, 2011
But for me, successful writing has usually been a case of having found good conditions for real, effortless concentration.
Ted Hughes
Poet
Via: @parisreview
Labels: Writing
November 3, 2011
Horace Dediu, Founder and Blogger of Asymco: “Like the example of the toy robot that delights the child, Siri delights with simple competence. … So over time it will take on more tasks and will eventually help us in ways that we cannot yet conceive possible today. This is just like the introduction of the capacitive touch screen. Popularizing the touch screen has led to experiences with phones and tablets which we did not think possible four years ago.
But it takes time. Like any truly useful breakthrough, it takes a long time to mature. And also like any disruption, the potential of Siri is rooted in four principles:
- Humble early goals which it accomplishes well
- A large population of enthusiastic adopters who give it sustenance
- Plenty of headroom in improvement giving it areas
to grow into with positive feedback
- A patient sponsor who makes a stable living
There’s no magic to it. In fact it’s banal. These are only the principles that every parent uses to raise a child.”
Source: “Clayton Christensen and Siri”
Via: Twelve Seventy-One
Labels: Innovation
