Posts from last year
My new favorite tradition at the end of the year is to do a recap and set goals and guesses. I recapped 2010 (2009, 2008) and made some predictions and goals for 2011 last January. Now it’s time to look back on 2011.
Finish reading 2011 Recap
My brother recently made the case to me that Peyton Manning should be the 2011 NFL MVP. At first I laughed this suggestion off as a joke, but after giving it more thought, it’s not a bad idea.
Finish reading Peyton Manning for MVP
What usually is a more offensive or silly comic actually makes a pretty good point with this one:
Pretty funny. Siri as a relationship counselor.
Via Gruber
From the original post:
Thomas Suarez is in the 6th grade at a middle school in the South Bay. And while most of his peers are probably fussing over new soccer kleets or watching the Disney channel, he’s creating iOS apps and giving TED Talks.
He’s not just building apps, he built a company. Great public speaking, too.
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I recently got to attend The Up Experience thanks to Schipul, and I really enjoyed all of the speakers. One of my favorites was the message shared by Dan Pink.
He talked about the importance of 10% time in cultivating innovation. You can read his article in the Telegraph to get the full story.
Finish reading 10 percent Time
Long ranty bit about Generation X and their middle child syndrome.
Generation X knows you didn’t even read the whole thing.
Via Waxy
Video by Marco Brambilla (Director’s Cut). Strong Anthem music.
Via Ed Schipul
It’s a book trailer, and it’s fantastic.
Via Waxy
Eric Ries promoting his new book, The Lean Startup:
When they switched to routinely split-testing new features, they made a shocking discovery: most of their new features did not change customer behavior at all.
Because new features add overhead to products (generally making them more complicated), a new feature has to provide so much benefit to customers that it’s worth incurring this overhead. There is no such thing as a “neutral” new feature. “The same” means worse.
He goes on to talk about how a product needs vision, with science (testing) as a complement to that. I’m looking forward to reading the book.
Via Swombat