Being renaissance
I’m glad Tim Ferriss brought up the generalist issue today, as it’s something that’s been on my mind lately.
It started last weekend when my wife’s uncle looked at me and said “you’re a generalist”. …
The post-partum bubble
We went to see some friends today with their first child, born just three days ago. It was a great preparation for our number two in just two months, but it also reminded me of what you could call the…
David Lynch meditates
It’s both surprising and not so surprising that David Lynch, the film maker, would be a strong believer in meditation. Surprising because of the violence in his films. Not surprising because of the de…
Amazon redesigns
Woa, new, cleaner look for Amazon.com. Interesting hover-effect on the logo linking to the home page. I’ve never seen that done anywhere before. It’ll be interesting to see whether their A/B testin…
Distractions
Does this also happen to you?
You open up your computer to do some specific task, only to completely forget about that task as soon as you open up your computer?
30 minutes, 5 emails, a few RSS feed…
People and their shoes
A brilliant project by photographer Ellen Ugelstad depicting people and their shoes. I love how well it works to see the upper torso and face, and then a closeup of their shoes beneath.
Via Kottke (w…
It takes practice
I’m fascinated with people who worked for their achievements. When I’m caught up in the fixed mind-set, I tend to think that those whose work I admire had it easy, they had the talent, they didn’t nee…
A personal touch
Mark Hurst mentions how he sends a personal welcome message to each subscriber to his newsletter, asking what they do and how they learned about the newsletter. What a good idea to do that. It starts …
A brief message on design
Khoi Vinh and Liz Danzico launches A Brief Message, a new design opinion site.
It’s looking really sharp and might be just the thing that I, an interested non-designer, might get around to actually r…