Fantastic commencement speech about perspective in life. When reading it I couldn’t help but hear my mother’s voice saying, “You don’t have to look very far to see someone worse off then yourself.”
When I hear people tell me:
“What camera should I get to take better pictures?”
Or:
“How do people find the time to write?”
Or my personal favorite:
“If I only had the time…”
It drives me crazy. These are all just essentially excuses for the same problem. Just do it already.
“My brother is a shoe store DJ. My father is a shoe store DJ. My grandfather was a shoe store DJ. The day I left the trade, some in my family cursed me. But now I’m having the last laugh.”
“The only way to get warmer during a season of sloth is to be active.”
Great advice from Ryan Singer describing what he calls “Domain Languages”.
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
Just. Keep. Trying. Great inspirational piece from Merlin Mann.
“Personally I feel I no longer have anything to share with the so-called graphic design of today: not the concept, not the typefaces, not the layout—nothing. Therefore, I conclude that I am no longer a graphic designer, but an information architect, and from now on that is how I will describe the meaning of my work and the scope of my activity. For me, to be an information architect means to organize information in a way that is essentially retrievable, understandable, visually captivating, emotionally involving, and easily identifiable. Information should be semantically rooted, syntactically correct, pragmatically efficient. It doesn’t work otherwise.” - Massimo Vignelli Again, I’m not interested in the semantic debate about this but I like the sentiment.
Hilarious, was going to mention it’s a bit graphic, but whatever, it’s text, deal.
“Are they the best a man can get? Fuck, no. Gillette is the best a man can get.”
The eloquent response.
“I found an amazing sweater yesterday at Daffy’s and I think it looks very classy. With your permission, I’d like to call the tux place and cancel my order and then wear the sweater (forrest green with mauve cuffs and tulle) at the wedding.”
Blue Flavor’s Tiffani Jones with some great tips for writing for the web.
I haven’t watched the entire thing yet, but what I’ve seen it’s incredible. If he really did write it himself that’s just staggering.
Bam.
Hilarious self-reflecting humor.
Another great post from ideasonIdeas about the emotional effect designs have on us, and how that should be the focus when selling your value to clients.
I’ve been guilty of this in the past but I completely agree with Shawn here. Well said.
One of my favorite posts ever. For those of you who know me I’m very much a minimalist and pretty much despise clutter and too much “stuff”. It’s a bit long but take the time to read it through if you can.
I’m not a big fan of resolutions either (my past two years have been “touching my toes”) but I like this one from Bronwyn.
It’s a good article and I was surprised to see my coworker Keith’s slide is used halfway down the article to make a point about the importance of writing online.
Entertaining stuff.
“I was born a programmer. The rest is just implementation detail.” Worth the long read.
Great article about writing by Bronwyn Jones.
A street-art version of a “choose your own adventure” story, the project unfolds on the streets of the Mission District in SF, each stencil connected to the next by arrows and using the surrounding streetscape as illustrations.
Hilarious. Great piece by John Frank Weaver.
Zeldman compares the declaration of indpendence to client work and somehow make it all work.
Distraction free writing.
“Fontifier lets you use your own handwriting for the text you write on your computer. It turns a scanned sample of your handwriting into a handwriting font.”