Category: Links

This is an amazing tale.

Jeffrey Zeldman:

If we keep throwing only young, mostly white, mostly upper middle class people at the engine that makes our digital world go, we’ll keep getting camera and reminder and hookup apps—things that make an already privileged life even smoother—and we’ll keep producing features that sound like a good idea to everyone in the room, until they unexpectedly stab someone in the heart.

Matt Mullenweg:

In a region that prides itself on disruption and working from first principles, San Francisco’s scaling problem is pretty humorous if you look at it from the outside: otherwise smart and inventive founders continue to set up offices and try to hire or move people in the most overheated environment since there were carphones in Cadillac Allantes.

Dave Pell:

But it doesn’t matter who you are. Something as seemingly minor as an errant or offensive tweet can ruin you. And once it ruins you, it keeps ruining you. The Internet is like a high school cafeteria. Except this cafeteria has billions of students. Meme Girls are the new Mean Girls.

I had the chance to try this app out before it was released and I have to say it is pretty fun. It’s not one of those apps where it is exciting fun, but challenging fun is far more accurate. I got lost in it a few times.

Interesting article exploring the cognitive benefits of writing by hand. I've actually been experimenting with hand notes again in a quasi-sketchnote fashion. I can't say if it's any better, but it's much less distracting for those on the other end of a video call when they don't hear my keyboard.

Such a fantastic app.

If you’ve missed me on a podcast, I joined Shawn Blanc on his to talk cameras and photography. How to shoot the holidays, and what to buy.

Interesting new app from Readdle called PDF Office. This sits alongside PDF Expert 5. I haven’t had much time with the app, but two things that are very interesting to me:

1. This is a subscription based app, $4/mo or $39/yr. (PDF Expert users get a year free if you get the app, well, now.)
2. Creating PDFs. I’ve tried making a lot of PDF forms before, but nothing was as easy as what this app is doing — perfect use case for the iPad.

I’ll have a review of it once I’ve played with it more.

Marc Hemeon:

Polite gestures are easy to do and make a real difference in the happiness of others.

Nice list, mostly just be aware of what’s going on. Let people in when they try to jam way ahead on merges, just realize that you really don’t care. I love letting people cut in lines if they are buying way less than I am.

Smart video from Dave Wiskus on what your idea is worth.

Paul Graham:

It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few.

Serena Ngai:

Nobuya had mastered his craft, and his passion for his life’s work was admirable. Could this be translated to this bubble of technology we live in? Technology is ever changing and it’s easy to get caught up in new trends and tools. But is it realistic for us to keep up with them?

This is how Amazon really should look.

Really interesting post from Matt Henderson on how he is dealing with passing on his digital information if/when he passes. This is something that I have always wondered about. Two really interesting services he found.