prolonged effusion of small talk. How I wished sleep would silence mapquest italy I got on to her crib and kissed her her forehead was cold
I could hardly face deleting this spam (and I guess MT trusted it, as it made it easily past the filter.) Especially since I've been on a Jane Austin kick, fueled by PBS's festival.
take a look... my god. mashupawards.com/dont-censor-me/ obscenity, stupidity, triviality and spam. Only one or two things that could ... maybe... be considered group intolerance of the lone rebel voice.
The Path to Entrepreneurship - Sramana Mitra on Strategy
What about working for a big company, they asked. My answer: Working for a big company early on in life develops in you a very narrow skill-set, at a very slow pace, whereas, the range of skills required to become an entrepreneur is frighteningly wide.
via IT conversations
Malcolm explores why we can't trust people's opinions -- because we don't have the language to express our feelings. His examples include the story of New Coke and how Coke's market research misled them, and the development of Herman-Miller's Aeron chair, the best-selling chair in the history of office chairs, which succeeded in spite of research that suggested it would fail.
I know this is an oldie, but it's also definitely a goodie, and worth noting.
On TED's website, Gladwell tells the story of how Prego discovered to their great profit that not all taste buds are alike.
This is not only entertaining, it's a critical reminder to all designers that there is not one UR-design, but that sometimes you have to provide choices. It's obviously an offshoot of his research from the fascinating and important The Ketchup Conundrum on the same theme.
Of course, in that piece he points to the fact that there *is* an ur-ketchup. No one wants extra-chunky or zesty ketchup, despite endless efforts from the food industry to break Heintz's hold. It's strange there is one true ketchup that you succeed or fail depending on how well you adhere to the design of it, just as it's strange there is only coke and sometimes Pepsi, and pretty much no one else successful in the Cola space. Not quite the level of lock-in to ketchup, but close.
I saw a taste test of Mayonnaise on America's test kitchen in which they concluded that, unlike other tests of other products, mayonnaise had to taste like what you grew up with, and it tastes different on the west coast, east coast and midwest. So there are regional ur-mayonnaises, based on familiarity.
This struck me as particularly relevant as we discussed threaded and nonthreaded discussion software at Linkedin, which led us to ponder other "religious wars" such as Mac vs. PC and VI vs. EMACS.
LukeW and I have often discussed conservation of effort; which means a certain amount of effort is always made in software usage, and you can take it on yourself on the design side, or push it off on the user. For example, how many times is personalization actually a way for a team to avoid having to make hard design choices?
Simple as possible, and no simpler. Sometimes you need an extra-zesty interface as well as classic, sometimes you don't.
a brilliant series by Mike Monteiro....
Dunning-Kruger effect — "...when people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it. Instead, ...they are left with the mistaken impression that they are doing just fine."[6](see also Lake Wobegon effect, and overconfidence effect).
