35 Life Hacks You Should Know
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all very good. some i’ve heard of before, most i haven’t.
(via azspot)
all very good. some i’ve heard of before, most i haven’t.
The Albrechts, who own Trader Joe’s through a family trust, have generally stayed out of the business. They visit the U.S. operation about once a year, and word around the office spreads that “the Germans” are coming.
how can you read that and not think of el guapo?
Perhaps the corner office could use a few more windows.
In a recent interview, Jonathan Ive said “It’s very hard to learn about materials academically, by reading about them or watching videos about them; the only way you truly understand a material is by making things with it.” He’s talking about product design, but the principle is just as relevant to the Web (if not more so). “The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material—the material informs the form…. Because when an object’s materials, the materials’ processes and the form are all perfectly aligned…. People recognize that object as authentic and real in a very particular way.” As our industry grows and roles get more specialized, it’s possible to become a “web designer” without more than a cursory understanding of the fundamental building materials of the Web: the code. Is this just the price of progress? Are the days of the web craftsman soon to be in the past? Or is a hybrid approach to web design and development something worth preserve?
my perspective on “south by” and if i’ll ever actually go aside, this panel rings true to me. not because i design for the web or code for the web. sure, i’ve done both and both together but it’s not my formal profession. it’d take many more years of practice and application to get to that point.
however, the road that’s taken me to where i am now started with both coding & designing for the web. learning absolute building blocks of something, today, that’s so much more to so many people. part of my job is understanding attention and helping people find what they’re looking for. on the surface, “academically,” it seems relatively simple. you tweet? you’re on facebook? you can read a web page? SIGN HERE. but that’s half the story, i think. you’re attacking a problem from the outside - in, instead of of the inside - out. does this mean i’m smarter than someone who doesn’t have a history of code & design for the web? no. does it mean i can do my job better? no. does it mean i have unique insight and perspective? yes.
that’s a huge point of difference. your final product, no matter what it is, will always reflect from where it came from.
what’s your starting point?
tim carmody is killing it filling-in for jason. click-through for a great read, please.
And there I was in the classic dilemma of trying to read a woman’s mind. I was expected to make this trivial choice which no doubt would have non-trivial consequences.
Kant had already said that this proof was baloney, because “existence” wasn’t a predicate like goodness or knowledge. But Russell and analytic philosophy took it one step further. In math and formal logic, existence isn’t a predicate — it’s a quantifier. Like in the sentence, “For every natural number, there is a larger natural number.” We’re not making deep existence claims here, just singling out an element in a system.
So if we can come up with a model that’s foundationally and structurally sound, and works, let’s use it. What looked like an impossible problem wasn’t a problem after all; we’d just gotten twisted up in the way we talked about it.
So philosophy of mathematics => mathematical philosophy. Change of grammar => change of perspective.
shaking off logical ambiguity.
But the other thing to think of, it’s that being unbalanced (for lack of a better word) doesn’t mean you have to go into destructive genius mode. I don’t know if it’s your family or your health, but if you really want to head off in pursuit of a big dream, something’s gotta give. It’s up to each of us to determine what that’s going to be and how we’re going to allocate our energy.
the inspiration for my twitter bio.
When at coffee shops I almost always order a 12-ounce, double Americano with a little bit of half-and-half steamed in.
i should try this. i usually go with a “triple tall with room” which is three shots in the smallest amount of water. no milk, just three “sugar in the raw” packs.
i had read somewhere, a while ago, that this was what the head taster at starbucks always orders to get a temperature for the overall performance of the store in question. i figured that made sense for me too - it’s a straight-forward drink that is effective, caffeine-wise, and its unadulterated prep highlights original flavor.
but, lets get real, it can be boring from time to time.
The researchers concluded that having few friends or weak social ties to the community is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking nearly a pack of cigarettes a day. Weak social ties are more harmful than not exercising and twice as risky as being obese, the researchers found.
GET FRIENDS OR DIEEEEE
