February 2010
Javascript jQuery plugins visualizations don’t... →
Late last night I was digging around looking for a replacement to our flash interface and I came across an incredible collection of javascript visualizations. Here are some design issues…
Each Day Begins with a Miracle →
It’s only natural to take life and good health for granted. The moment we awaken is bundled with an array of tasks. Habit and ritual drives us out of bed, never with a spare moment to…
Pick 3 →
The founder of friendfeed, and project orginator of Gmail Paul Buchheit, shares his design view: If your product is Great, it doesn’t need to be Good. I’m delighted with the way Paul…
Mysteries within the obvious, Language the Code... →
While working on semantic processing of user statuses, I spent several cycles thinking about the meaning behind language. When speaking, writing or giving a presentation, we take so much…
User Interface Speedups Effect on Scaling... →
If you’re a coder and in a hurry I included links to a couple of tools and how to use them at the end of the post
Unless your goal is to craft retro techno-art that’s defined by its…
Augmented Reality Overload →
The Bing maps team is exploring the enormous opportunities of augmented reality mixed with mapping. If you haven’t seen this TED talk by…
Social Tools: for work, for fun, both →
There’s been a mix of feedback over a new social tool from Google called Buzz. The developers made a faux pas by exposing implicit email relationships of a number of users. They made…
Design Frameworks that Function Without You in the... →
Builders and makers know the seductive siren of force multipliers. Any time I can automate a task, I take the opportunity to do so. Tasks that require human clock cycles for each…
This fictional world of optimal business... →
How often do we critically evaluate how effective our business structure is? In corporate America or a large government organization each employee has a large depth of managers that…
Mind => Tools, dynamic and static typing →
In an earlier post I mentioned I’d come back to the advantages of dynamic typing. My primary reference for all the quotes and information is the dynamic type wikipedia page….
Sleep Dep Not All Bad for Creatives →
The prevalence of sleep deprivation is evident in our massive market for coffee and other stimulants. Although our mind requires rest to maintain peak functionality, we make do by…
Gotta Grock Git →
Git is a file syncronization, and source control tool. Git has been my enemy. It’s still a spooky animal. Here’s how I survive git now without letting it get in the way of me breaking new…
Each Time I Get My Hands Dirty, I Learn →
As long as I’m unwilling to face an obstacle, my mind invents clever schemes to prevent me from having to deal with undesirable tasks. That results in me treating the obstacle as a spooky…
“no powerpoint slides (they are distracting from the main conversation). Assume...”
– Jeff Walker, in a comment on
The Monster In Your Head » Board Meetings that Suck
(via fred-wilson)
Introduction of Louis P. Solomon
louispsolomon:
My name is Louis P. Solomon. I am beginning this blog at the suggestion of my family. They are all inveterate bloggers with large followings. They know that I have written on many different subjects for many years and have strongly encouraged me to express myself in a way that essentially did not exist 10 years ago. I accept their challenge. Social networking is a new method of...
Choice is Beauty: Why I’m leaving Apple Mobile for... →
iPhone is a fundamentally closed architecture. Sure lots of developers are working through the store to get access to a large market, but the store’s cut isn’t the only tax. Apple is the…
Can Search Discover the Spark of Life? →
Highly profitable attention based business is powered by crack dev teams working at Google and Microsoft (Bing). From the point of view of an outsider looking in, there is a…
Our “Great White Shark” is the Ultimate Filter →
“White Blood Cell Chases Bacteria… It is a neutrophil chasing Staphylococcus aureus”. For more details see “how neutrophils work”* at the end of the post.
It’s…
Illusive Delusions of Grandeur, or a Peak at Who... →
a Han Solo inspired title for a post that dips into the spiritual side
Have you ever experienced moments where you felt unstoppable?
I’m not talking about run of the mill mania, a…
The Worker Company Contract →
Whether the economy is growing or contracting, the heart of every business are the employees that work to see its success. In these challenging times it has become even more important that…
Don’t let a little thing like odds stop you →
Imagine relegating every important choice to probabilistically dominant outcomes? This decision architecture attempts to rigorously bake out every conditional…
“Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via semioticxperimence)
Back in Action: iTunes is the only #fail for... →
Yesterday evening I was back to nearly full functionality after leaving my old friend Windows. The surprising casualty of the switch from Windows to Ubuntu Linux is iTunes. Apple hasn’t…
Your startup needs help, but when & how do you... →
At first look building a business on a macro level appears to be a linear series of steps. From my vantage, forming a startup and building it into a business is part art form, part…
