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Grandpa (playing with fonts)
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My Christmas List:
1. This thing.
2. See above.
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software skills are the most portable high-end skills on the planet. Spotting and temporarily attracting talent doesn’t mean you get to keep it. Stock option-slavery and golden handcuffs for talent from acquired companies aside, there’s not much you can do to combat social and economic mobility. Not only can software developers switch industries easily, they can even survive on their own much more easily. A nuclear engineer really cannot do much without nuclear reactors or bombs to work with.
~The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes
Mobility is awesome.
(via johnerik)(via johnerik)
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Got so absorbed in designing our new navigation that I lost track of time and got a parking ticket.
…new nav looks AWESOME though. Conclusion: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ll3rum8FR61qcqf9r.gif
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We were surprised because we want each technology to be judged only by its cleverness, its raw power, the cleanliness of its architecture, the purity of its ideas. We were blind to the user experience, to what each technology meant in the bigger picture of a person’s life. To the people buying and using the “clearly inferior” technology, exactly the opposite was true. To the user, the interface is the product.
~ These things I believe. -
~ Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The WhiningIf you work at a startup and you think you’re working too hard and sacrificing too much, find a job somewhere else that will cater to your needs.
But if deep down you know that you’re part of history, that the things you are building will be written about and thought about forever, then maybe after that good cry after a short sleep under your desk you’ll pull yourself together and remember. That you are a person in the Arena. A Pirate. That you are here to make a dent in the universe.
You might be sad that you work long hours and that sometimes your boss yells at you when tensions run high. But you also know that there is nowhere on earth like Silicon Valley. Nowhere else that is structurally designed to help you make whatever you can imagine into reality. Nowhere else where there are so many like minded people who are willing to sacrifice and work hard to create something new.
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Photo of my Grandfather and Great-Grandfather circa 1930 with their 1906 Buick. Going to see the car with my Dad/brother this weekend.
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We might think that design work is about you or about me or anyone else who makes it, or maybe about the things that we make and the artifacts we produce, but don’t let this way of thinking fool you. The things we make are all just excuses to speak with one another and to help one another. We are all linked, and the things that we make for each other strengthen the invisible threads that tie us all together. There is a part of me that will always design for the joy of making it, but I now understand that the point of it all is not for me to enjoy myself, but for the ones using whatever I make to have some sort of wonder when doing so. We are in service to those that use what we make, to the ones that listen to what we say. We all may be little particles shooting through space with the potential to move faster than light, but design is a testament to our codependency. We are anchored to one another, so we all shift together. I can feel it in this room. And so I am glad to be here with you, in this far away place, anxious to make and to learn and to let my torch burn a little brighter.
~ The Particle - Frank Chimero -
