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“John Watson composes his blog in Times New Roman and Helvetica. Acceptable. But I refuse to believe that Sherlock Holmes views the world in Verdana. Ridiculous.” —
“A Scandal In Belgravia” | Sherlock | The A.V. Club
Bravo.
CubeStormer II - Dave Gilday & Mike Dobson - ARM TechCon 2011 - YouTube
(Source: cineraria, via engineeringisawesome)
“It’s like the fellow who leads a huge bear on a chain into the town square and, for a small donation, will make the bear dance. The townspeople gather to see the wondrous sight as the massive, lumbering beast shambles and shuffles from paw to paw. The bear is a really terrible dancer, and the wonder isn’t that the bear dances well but that the bear dances at all.” — The Inmates Are Running the Asylum | Alan Cooper
“Work from large to small. Always.” — Getting Real: Ignore Details Early On (by 37signals)
“The world Conard describes too often feels grim and soulless, one in which art and romance and the nonremunerative satisfactions of a simpler life are invisible. And that, I realized, really is Conard’s world. “God didn’t create the universe so that talented people would be happy,” he said. “It’s not beautiful. It’s hard work. It’s responsibility and deadlines, working till 11 o’clock at night when you want to watch your baby and be with your wife. It’s not serenity and beauty.” —
Romney’s Former Bain Partner Makes a Case for Inequality - NYTimes.com
Nope.
“Scrap comments sections, and add serious editors to filter the smartest emails both in favor of the blogger’s view and against.” —
The Feedback Firehose - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
This works nicely for the Dish. I suspect it’d work well for a number of pundits with personal brands.
“There are dozens of perfectly relevant features I haven’t added to NV because they didn’t fit cleanly into its interface.” —
An interview with Notational Velocity developer Zachary Schneirov – Surat Says
Schneirov exhibits a special type of integrity when it comes to NV.
“Current advertisements for this cereal portray adults in some form unable to “see what makes them so popular”, the adult guesses something completely off the wall, and usually related to the adult’s profession, whereby the kids correct them and loudly say “It’s the cinnamon sugar swirls in every bite!”.” —
Cinnamon Toast Crunch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Text-only tv spots.
“It’s fairly difficult to overestimate how uncertain people are and how much they don’t know what they actually want.” — Blake Masters: Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay
“Just as it’s a mistake to think that you’ll have multiple equal revenue streams, you probably won’t have a bunch of equally good distribution strategies. Engineers frequently fall victim to this because they do not understand distribution. Since they don’t know what works, and haven’t thought about it, they try some sales, BD, advertising, and viral marketing—everything but the kitchen sink. That is a really bad idea.” — Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 9 Notes Essay
“The pundit’s fallacy is that belief that what a politician needs to do to improve his or her political standing is do what the pundit wants substantively.” —
The Pundit’s Fallacy | Matt Yglesias
Startup corollary: The power user’s fallacy is the belief that what a CEO needs to do to improve his or her product is do what the user wants substantively.
I, along with everyone else with a blog or twitter account, am surely guilty of this multiple times over.