The First God
The Night God Spoke – A Super Short Story
The Space Time Continuum of Time Travel Logic
What are we really supposed to learn from fairy tales?
How my wife going to work made our home more harmonious and brought us closer together.Happy Easter
Don’t worry, I’m not going all Pinterst on everyone.
Happy Easter
The cycle of shame shouldn’t stop us from being better people
Its really easy to get discouraged when reality doesn’t measure up to expectations. I set a goal to make a blogpost everyday this year. I’ve done very well but earlier this week I missed a day. Its easy to say “My goal was to do a post everyday. I missed one. I can’t reach my goal anymore. I may as well give up on it.”
Maybe the shame cycle isn’t the write phrase for it maybe its the “I’m just a … syndrome”. Like after you say something rude, excusing it by saying “I guess I’m just a jerk.” So you said something rude, don’t let it define you. If you do then every bad thing will define you. It’s settling for something less than your potential.
Perfect standards are completely out of whack with reality. We shouldn’t let high expectations keep us from healthy attitudes and self-improvement.
The cycle of shame shouldn’t stop us from being better people
The 70% Solution
When I started my career I spent hours agonizing over making something perfect. Getting that story just right. Making that ad text amazing, or revising wireframes over and over again. I didn’t want to make a mistake and I didn’t want to leave any room for complaint.
This is the most boneheaded way to work.
The 70% Solution
Don’t mess with ze germans
Don’t mess with ze germans
Voting with money
Here’s an idea. Why not get rid of all the pain and wasted money with elections and replace them with ballot boxes that only accept money. Want to be a Senator? Pay the most money and you can have the seat.
This is just like the system we have, except more honest
There is basically no change in the US between someone winning based on votes and someone based on money. Elections are just marketing challenges and all things being equal the candidate with the most money wins anyway. Why not skip the dog and pony show?
Voting with money
Dev incentives are screwy
The monster known as DLC
When an app is released and people love it, they buy it and everyone is happy right? Well no, because there are bugs, and people want extra features, and the dev didn’t have a chance to build all the things they wanted. They keep working and make a new version.
Now there are a bunch of users who already paid for the app and a new version. The new version goes out, existing users get it for free and maybe the app gets a little bump in downloads from press.
From a time investment standpoint the new update probably isn’t worth it. The incentives are messed up.
Video game companies are tackling this with DLCs. But gamers feel nickel and dimed. There has to be a better way to get consumers and developers on the same page.
Dev incentives are screwy
We can tell stories however we want
I once did a training on the mobile web and I handed out all kinds of funny shaped “scrap paper” and asked the participants to design an ad. Of course, I didn’t tell them what the real test was. I made lots of oddly shaped paper scraps because the real test was how does the shape of the paper influence the design of the product. Some people simply designed a square ad because they had always seen square ads. They weren’t influenced by the medium at all. Others followed the shape and size of their paper to design their ad to fit in.
We can tell stories however we want
Talking it out
I was trying to come up with good ideas to blog about today by going through all my past unfinished drafts. Each of these drafts had one thing in common. They all started with a false premise.
Each post shows the logical following from a false premise until it comes to a paragraph where it becomes apparent the idea is rubbish and should not be fin
Talking it out
A restaurant’s bathroom will usually tell you everything you need to know
Taken at Neighborhood in San Diego.
In case you’re wondering the words on the right say “YOU’RE BEING WATCHED”
A restaurant’s bathroom will usually tell you everything you need to know
What does one do in a post-job economy?
We already know (or at least posited) that one way society gets richer is by destroying jobs. But how do you distribute resources if half your employment base isn’t working?
What does one do in a post-job economy?