This post on “getting to genius” made it to hackernews and I found a few of the ideas fascinating. At Xerox PARC Alan Kay was known for saying, “A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” I’ve heard this similar idea about “perspective” from successful angel investors and VCs: Genius is the extreme form [...]
There was a good post on hackernews this morning about choosing who you collaborate with in order to help you get faster at something. Working with people who are waaaaay better than you at something is completely inspirational and exciting. I’ve been trying to figure out exactly why that is.. and I think I finally [...]
A designer makes things. … Typically his making process is complex. There are more variables—kinds of possible moves, norms, and interrelationships of these—than can be represented in a finite model. Donald A Schön, The Reflective Practitioner Understanding how people learn (and improve skill level) is complex. Designing elegant stuff is also complex. Put them together, [...]
(from the BettrAt blog) Pledge to watch the movie over at WaitingForSuperman.com. Infographic video made by the Creative animation studio Buck.
I usually lock my laptop in the BettrAt WHQ file drawer. I forgot my keys this morning, so I didn’t have a laptop. How are you supposed to work without a laptop? Then it dawned on me. I’m going to try an experiment with the iPad today where I use it to get as much [...]
If the world were easily explained by some meta production possibilities curve that included every single possible output, I wonder which “output” most people are spending their time, energy, and money. It might seem odd to boil the entire world of production into this simple curve (but economics by its nature is a simplification). I [...]
Last week, Chris Dixon posted this comment from Caterina Fake (of Flickr fame) that really got me thinking: “Flickr is a wonderful place to be a photograph“. Makes a lot of sense. If you were a photograph, where else would you want to be? On Flickr, lots of people would look at you, you’d be [...]
Great TED talk by John Gerzema. I won’t make another comment about skating to where the puck is headed, but you get the point. “Did you know that 68% of Americans now carry a library card: The highest percentage ever in our nation’s history. What you see in this consumer trend is also the accumulation [...]
