May 2012
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“When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first...”
– Ernest Hemingway, in a terrific 1958 interview with George Plimpton
When someone cancels a meeting at the last minute...
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April 2012
16 posts
Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing →
The new job title of “Growth Hacker” is integrating itself into Silicon Valley’s culture, emphasizing that coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?” and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email...
AirBnB getting sneaky on the supply side? →
Yesterday AirBnB announced that they raised $100M at a $1B valuation. This is a huge, huge accomplishment – but a lot of entrepreneurs are probably asking how they did it. Was it their awesome design? Excellent idea? Was it their uncanny business acumen? Just dumb luck?
My Answer: Craigslist Spam!
I believe AirBnB used multiple gmail accounts to spam craigslist and grow their site to a one...
Bearded: Mocking Up Is Hard To Do →
beardedstudio:
Recently at Bearded we made a pretty drastic decision in terms of our web design process: we’re not creating mock-ups anymore.
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January 2012
1 post
JCP's Think different moment. →
November 2011
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October 2011
2 posts
Have a Sexy Little Halloween →
the understatement: Roboto vs. Helvetica →
understatementblog:
Google announced the mouthful known as “Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich” today. The first bullet point of their presentation was a new system-wide font, Roboto. John Gruber quickly pointed out what had caught my eye as well: Roboto sure looks a lot like Helvetica, the typeface so famous they
September 2011
6 posts
Right now this very scene is being repeated in...
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: You guys are on Macs now?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Yeah, we're slowly switching over. But we still use PowerPoint.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Well, we brought our portion of the deck in PDF, think we can import that?
BARISTA: TRIPLE GRANDE NON-FAT LATTE FOR BILL? BILL?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Yeah, not sure how to do that. Do you have a thumb drive?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Sure, let me check my bag
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: Oh, hey guys. How's it going.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Good. Wait, should we just present the deck off your laptop?
BARISTA: VENTI PUMPKIN SPICE LATTE FOR ANNA? ANNA? AND A GRANDE COFFEE FRAPPUCINO FOR MARIO? MARIO?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 1: Sure, I mean I guess we could do that. Are you driving or am I driving?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: The deck?
BLUE BLAZER GUY 2: Yeah, the deck.
BLUE BLAZER GUY 3: Whatever, I'm fine. Let's use my machine.
BARISTA: GRANDE NON-FAT DECAF VANILLA ICED LATTE FOR ELIZABETH?
Git Is Simpler Than You Think
I’ve often been amused by observing one person try to explain Git to another. Everybody (well, not *everybody*) agrees that it’s a better version control system — but the lack of clear conceptual language is a huge barrier to entry.
nfarina:
Git’s overloaded, confusing language is absolutely the only part of it that sucks. They meant well. They chose words that sound familiar,...
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November 2010
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New Twitter's Golden Spiral
I’ve seen this image floating around in relation to the recent redesign of twitter.
But I think the shipped something else. I can get the golden spiral to overlay in the same way. My twitter looks more like this:
So what happened?
