If it's essentially harmful can it be justified as 'temporary'?
If it's essentially harmful can it be justified as 'temporary'?
[Contemporary utopia is resistance against entities claiming that history is over, that we should accept things as we are, that there are no alternatives.]
Nature is prolific.
Baremetrics Founder Josh Pigford on Side Projects and Growing a $1 Million SaaS Startup
[If they're not paying, their feedback will likely be that of someone trying to get something for nothing as opposed to those who value the offering.]
Not all bricks are nourishing. Be aware of what is being practiced.
Time-based notes with Alexander Griekspoor
[Despite having training materials and support, people generally learn the tool socially.]
[Build community forum posting into the app.]
[Ask people to describe their workflows.]
['Identity theft' is favourable because it absolves institutions of their responsibility to secure their authentication systems.]
Nature is abundant. Nature does not imagine.
[End-user programming languages are more motivating to learn when they are task-oriented: instead of making available only smaller primitives, provide higher-level abstractions that actually do the complete job.]
[Spreadsheet arithmetic is approachable not because most people know how to add and subtract, but because that's what accountants and business people do]
[Go beyond 'easy to use' and prioritize early success within a few hours of use to increase motivation.]
[Avoid 'having to know everything to do anything']
[Spreadsheets obviate the need for control structures or variable names.]
[Happiness is a choice.]
How can we appropriate the mind's repetition and 'latching onto things' to reinforce healthy practices?
[Start out by not letting anyone touch it without being there to show how it works. First give a demo to let them see what they can do with the product, then guide them while they try it for themselves.]
[Help provide context and help them understand why they should care.]
10 Years of Open-Source Visualization
[Maximize your impact by making teaching central to your strategy, ideally material that can be consumed without you being present.]
[Have lots of examples.]
[Answering questions is more than altruism, it's a chance to learn.]
[If you're complaining on the Internet, think of the practical impact of your words.]
[Focus on laying a perfect brick everyday and eventually you'll look up and there will be a wall.]
[Conversational language is a poor medium of HCI because computers lack the context that we constantly refer to, as well as the ability to interpret context to derive meaning.]
[Deterministic outcomes from a computer and so prefer formal languages because conversation is naturally open-ended and not specific.]
Don't End The Week With Nothing
[If you are not allowed side projects or to make your work open source, ask for more money.]
[Bitcoin is an investment bubble built around the narrative of people's rage at economic inequality and a broken economy.]
[Cache and cash sound similar because our concept of storing value comes from nature, squirrels keeping a stock of acorns in such a way to avoid it being eaten by someone else.]
[People die because we give numbers in machines more resources, attention, and care than living beings.]
[The Kwakiutl call their money objects 'bad things', like dead bodies or intestines, and in potlatch money-destruction ceremonies they 'wipe the shame off their body'.]
[A groove is a cell that repeats. A song is a collection of cells that are organized linearly to have a beginning, middle, and end.]
[Making a groove longer is trivial, a song not so.]
[Songs lend themselves to be covered and arranged. Grooves lend themselves to be remixed and sampled.]
What can I say or offer as a pleasant surprise to the other person?