Self discipline

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“In this very real world, good doesn’t drive out evil. Evil doesn’t drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive”

- Bill Bernbach

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“The pattern we see here is to keep crises small and frequent, as Ed Catmull of Pixar says in an excellent recent talk. When describing the difficulty Pixar’s artists had with reviews (“it’s not ready for you to look at”), he realized that the only way to break through resistance to reviews was to increase the frequency until no one could reasonably expect to be finished in time for theirs. The point was to gauge work in motion, not work at rest. “So often that you won’t even notice it,” said Elwood Blues.”

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The hose drawer

(Via Matt Jones)

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Frank Chimero

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Radio Free Hackday was my favourite project at Music Hack Day in Stockholm.

The device is a Panasonic RF-2400, we removed the power supply to make room for an Arduino Mini running custom firmware and shortwired the internal electronic so that the radio is always tuned to the same frequency.

A simple potientiometer tracks the position of the frequency display that lets the user chose between different cities and musical genres. The arduino then transmits this data to a computer that streams music from the Citysounds.fm and SoundCloud APIs back into the device using a FM Transmitter.

But you really should check out all the other great ones as well.

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A perfect example is the PDA stuff, like Apple’s Newton. I’m not real optimistic about it, and I’ll tell you why. Most of the people who developed these PDAs developed them because they thought individuals were going to buy them and give them to their families. My friends started General Magic [a new company that hopes to challenge the Newton]. They think your kids are going to have these, your grandmother’s going to have one, and you’re going to all send messages. Well, at $1,500 a pop with a cellular modem in them, I don’t think too many people are going to buy three or four for their family. The people who are going to buy them in the first five years are mobile professionals.

To make step-function changes, revolutionary changes, it takes that combination of technical acumen and business and marketing — and a culture that can somehow match up the reason you developed your product and the reason people will want to buy it. I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

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- Steve Jobs, again, on Apple’s Newton in Rolling Stone, 1994

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Let’s talk more about the Internet. Every month, it’s growing by leaps and bounds. How is this new communications web going to affect the way we live in the future?

I don’t think it’s too good to talk about these kinds of things. You can open up any book and hear all about this kind of garbage.

I’m interested in bearing your ideas.

I don’t think of the world that way. I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build really good tools that I know in my gut and my heart will be valuable. And then whatever happens is… you can’t really predict exactly what will happen, but you can feel the direction that we’re going. And that’s about as close as you can get. Then you just stand back and get out of the way, and these things take on a life of their own.

Nevertheless, you’ve often talked about how technology can empower people, how it can change their lives. Do you still have as much faith in technology today as you did when you started out 20 years ago?

Oh, sure. It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Explain that.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. It’s not the tools that you have faith in — tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Steve Jobs in Rolling Stone, 1994

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“The Internet does NOT want to be FREE… It wants to GET PAID on Fucking Friday, just like everybody else on the damn planet.”

- Dave McClure is angry. In not a bad way.

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nevver:

WLT

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thedailywhat:

Grammy Awards: Scrap book.

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