October 2008
12 posts
Design Basics for Programmers →
The most useful “designing webpages for n00bs” tutorial i’ve read.
“Tomorrow’s sources of advantage aren’t like yesterday’s....”
– Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time - Umair Haque
6 things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee →
Good advice on growth for anybody, not just music students.
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The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental... →
I’ve taken strong exception to the popular notion that we can rely upon hunches and gut feelings as though they reflect the accuracy of a thought. We need to recognize that the feelings of certainty and conviction are involuntary mental sensations, not logical conclusions. Intuitions, gut feelings and hunches are neither right nor wrong but tentative ideas that must then be submitted to...
“There will be a day when you can no longer do this. Today is not that day.”
– Anon, on getting it done today.
“Lean startups can be the most capital efficient companies in the world, because...”
– Eric Ries writes one of the best new startup blogs I’ve read in a long time.
Will the US choose authoritarian capitalism or... →
Under authoritarian capitalism, the state tends to resolve any contradiction between markets and society by favouring markets. Under social capitalism, it tends to do the reverse.
Where attention flows, money follows →
The deal for an inventor is not getting someone to buy your gizmo (it is just money!) but to use it every day. To be aware of it. To consider it. To love it. To trigger meaning.
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to...”
– Abraham Maslow
How to Fail: 25 Secrets Learned through Failure →
Brilliant guidelines for success in business.