Just spout bullshit: Be a multi-disciplinary, insatiably curious person who knows how to use the tools to model ideas and create prototypes. Possessed of an open mind and few fixed ideas about how things should be done, you nonetheless have a strong conscience and can operate outside of your comfort zone to achieve win-win outcomes. You are known for your integrity and resilience. (via: The...
While the usual caveats about a post with the opinions of one person (a teenager), that aims to provide insight into a group (US teenagers) apply of course, it’s still really interesting. These points jumped out at me: Facebook: In short, many have nailed this on the head. It’s dead to us. then this: Messaging on Facebook is also extremely popular among our age group, mainly because...
An illuminating article about Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Fire Phone fiasco. Well worth a read. Will be interesting to see how this pans out over the next 5 years. If Amazon do get a future version of the phone right (and all indications are that they are continuing to invest heavily in R&D for it), then this period will be looked back on as being valuable learning, and a tribute to...
Marco’s post is getting a lot of attention at the moment, and for good reason – it eloquently summarises the frustration a lot of Apple users are currently experiencing: We now need to treat Apple’s OS and application releases with the same extreme skepticism and trepidation that conservative Windows IT departments employ. He’s not mentioning anything new of course – the...
When running a business there’s always tension between what’s best for your business versus what’s best for your customer. Dan Counsell’s post on providing access to Mac Apps outside the App Store is a good example of that tension (emphasis mine): Lets take a look at three of the reasons why not limiting the availability of your software to just the Mac App Store is a...
Hindsight is always easy, which makes the first part of this post pretty lame. But the forward-looking predictions are pretty spot on I think. The closing remarks about the impending crash are what resonate most though: And now the stock market is hitting all-time highs, and Facebook is trading at 72 times earnings, and Twitter has a $20 billion market cap even though it is losing huge amounts...
As part of an art exhibition in Zurich, an automated online shopping bot is tasked with buying a random item each week on the deep web to the value of $100 in bitcoins. Along the way it purchases ecstasy pills and a fake passport. If this bot was shipping to the U.S., asks Forbes contributor and University of Washington law professor contributor Ryan Calo, who would be legally responsible for...
From Mark Zuckerberg’s status update: My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week — with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies. It’s a good challenge, and he has started a page for it here. I’ve joined but I’ve set myself a much more appropriate target – I’m aiming to read one book from his...
If the rumours turn out to be true and Apple does release an iPhone 6 Mini I’ll likely buy it. I got my iPhone 6 at the start of November and switched to it from my iPhone 5s. But two weeks later I switched back to my 5s. Just this week I’m having another go at trying the 6, but I’m probably going back to the 5s again next week. The main reason is the form factor. Everything...
From Matt Mullenweg, responding to Paul Graham’s post: If 95% of great programmers aren’t in the US, and an even higher percentage not in the Bay Area, set up your company to take advantage of that fact as a strength, not a weakness. It’s always easy to oversimplify this issue, but there’s good points on both sides here, plus the Hacker News discussion is useful reading...