Posts tagged with “thoughts”
Posted 1 year ago
Posted 1 year ago
Sorry Linux but the chicken came first
A Linux Net-book sits right in front of me and makes me smile, even as I read this article about the death of Linux on netbooks.
Windows is a habit, and its hard to get rid of old habits, good or bad. Its harder when alternatives are stomped by dragons.
But, I believe good things have their place in our lives and as long as the world appreciates good stuff, good things will live on alongside not-so-good things that may die-hard.
Posted 1 year ago
The Dalai Lama’s Instructions for life:
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s:
- Respect for self.
- Respect for others.
- Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.
When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone everyday.
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
—
via littlemiss
I Love this text with reckless abandon.
The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet (via littlemiss)
Posted 1 year ago
There will typically be overlap, disagreement, and confusion before there is synergy, cooperation, and collaboration.
- Morgan Kaufman
Morgan Kaufman said this w.r.t coming together of view-points in a web of knowledge. I thought this statement holds good more generally too.
-Rawjeev
Posted 1 year ago
The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed Is Good
Has the worst subsided? A case for why capitalism is still the world’s most productive economic engine
Posted 1 year ago
Simplicity takes balls (by rodp)
rodp:
iPhone only has one button. One. How many other mobile phones have one button? How about Google search? It’s pretty much a single text box. Its homepage isn’t cluttered with news, banners and category links. Are you impressed with 37signals’ success story? A company of less than 10 people builds the world’s most popular project management tool. How do you figure they made it? Certainly not by putting a Gantt chart in it.
Throughout my career, I’ve been working with clients that are as impressed as I am by products such as iPhone, Google or Basecamp. However, when it comes to achieving simplicity in their own products, the vast majority of them falls short. Some of them miss the point by miles, usually thinking that a glossy design is all they need to have a great product. Some of them, however, understand that truly great products are the ones that lack features, rather than have them. Nevertheless, they, too, eventually tend to clutter their products with every feature imaginable.
I don’t blame them, though. Adding a feature is only a question of time and money. Removing a feature takes courage. Excuse my Serbian, but deciding what feature your users can live without takes balls of steel.
I’ve seen this so many times. At the start of a project we’re looking at Apple or Google or 37signals for inspiration. However, down the road, when we’re put in front of a choice of having or not having a certain feature - we get scared. Suddenly, keeping that feature feels more comfortable than letting it go.
Is a small, boring, textual link enough or do we need a big, colorful, teaser image? Should we hide it by default or do we show it just in case our users overlook it? There are people who get scared and chicken out once presented with questions like this. And then there are Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jason Fried, …
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Posted 1 year ago
For most of the last century, Americans have been told repeatedly that cooking is a time-consuming drag. Companies like Kraft and General Foods promoted mix-and-eat macaroni and cheese, rice with mix-in flavor pouches and instant pudding. Pillsbury, the flour maker, became Pillsbury the biscuit, pie and cookie dough maker: baking just by turning on the oven. According to a 2008 NPD study, of all supper entrees “cooked” at home, just 58 percent were prepared with raw ingredients.
The twist, of course, is that convenience foods save neither money nor time. As Marion Nestle pointed out in her 2006 book “What to Eat,” prewashed romaine hearts cost at least $1.50 a pound more than romaine heads. And the 2006 U.C.L.A. study found that families saved little or no cooking time when they built their meals around frozen entrees and jarred pasta sauce.
As we lost our skills at the stove, we also lost something less tangible but no less important: the opportunity to spend time together in the kitchen, talking and cooking. Similarly, we gave up the chance to improve our children’s eating habits by example. Studies by Harvard Medical School and the University of Minnesota show that children in families that ate together consumed more fruits and vegetables, as well as less fat and fewer snacks.
Which is why Mrs. Obama might want to expand her food message to include cooking.
The twist, of course, is that convenience foods save neither money nor time. As Marion Nestle pointed out in her 2006 book “What to Eat,” prewashed romaine hearts cost at least $1.50 a pound more than romaine heads. And the 2006 U.C.L.A. study found that families saved little or no cooking time when they built their meals around frozen entrees and jarred pasta sauce.
As we lost our skills at the stove, we also lost something less tangible but no less important: the opportunity to spend time together in the kitchen, talking and cooking. Similarly, we gave up the chance to improve our children’s eating habits by example. Studies by Harvard Medical School and the University of Minnesota show that children in families that ate together consumed more fruits and vegetables, as well as less fat and fewer snacks.
Which is why Mrs. Obama might want to expand her food message to include cooking.
— Amanda Hesser, The Commander in Chef (nytimes) (via reconnoitre)
via reconnoitre-deactivated20090917
Posted 1 year ago
In my head, right now
git, semanticweb, rdf, rdfs, owl, sparql, inferencing, openid + foaf, amazon sdb + jena, sesame, mulgara
Posted 1 year ago
Tribes are what matter now
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so. [via]
Posted 1 year ago
Posted 1 year ago
Axioms for 21st Century Media
• The present is functionally obsolete.
• For planning purposes, the short-term future IS the present.
• Planning for the short-term is not a strategy. It’s like navigating solely by what you can see.
• There is no map, and the future is not predictable. • Consequently, shoot for standard formats (XML, RDF, etc.) and build products and systems to be adaptable and inter-operable.
• Don’t build your future on a rock. Build your future on a surfboard. We’re not on dry land anymore.
• Proprietary systems are rocks. Open Source systems are surfboards.
• Own your data.
• Think databases, not documents.
• Unstructured data has a value that approaches zero as it ages.
• Structured data is too formal to describe the messy world around us.
• Semi-structured data looks like the Goldilocks Zone for news media.
• The One With The Best Tools Wins.
• Web 1.0 is to the Web as rotary phones are to telecommunication: Rotary phones still work, but they’re irrelevant to what comes next.
• The challenge is: Build tools that give humans superhuman abilities.
• Technology is just evolution by non-biological means.
via joeybaker
• The present is functionally obsolete.
• For planning purposes, the short-term future IS the present.
• Planning for the short-term is not a strategy. It’s like navigating solely by what you can see.
• There is no map, and the future is not predictable. • Consequently, shoot for standard formats (XML, RDF, etc.) and build products and systems to be adaptable and inter-operable.
• Don’t build your future on a rock. Build your future on a surfboard. We’re not on dry land anymore.
• Proprietary systems are rocks. Open Source systems are surfboards.
• Own your data.
• Think databases, not documents.
• Unstructured data has a value that approaches zero as it ages.
• Structured data is too formal to describe the messy world around us.
• Semi-structured data looks like the Goldilocks Zone for news media.
• The One With The Best Tools Wins.
• Web 1.0 is to the Web as rotary phones are to telecommunication: Rotary phones still work, but they’re irrelevant to what comes next.
• The challenge is: Build tools that give humans superhuman abilities.
• Technology is just evolution by non-biological means.
Posted 1 year ago
With a real hyperland around us, the problems we might face would be that of “Information Overload”. With an endless ocean of information, one can drift aimlessly from one piece of information to another. If the goals are not clear one may be on a never ending journey where a road gets laid under ones feet in every direction.
Roughly speaking, you can put me in the league of Pashupati & Pan. Otherwise I am a button-pusher (who is often wood-sick).
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