January 2012
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December 2011
1 post
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November 2011
2 posts
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Buckle down. Knuckle up! Getting back on schedule.
Okay, no more joking around. I’m nearly six months into working on a product and its time to tighten the belt. Why? Because I’ve become fat. Somewhere in the transition from service to product design I forgot all the best things I learned about efficiency and productivity. I went off track because working on a new product is fast paced crazy town and my normal process was out the...
October 2011
4 posts
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Greenville Grok
Update: Republishing this, because Tumblr somehow un-indexed it.
Every year I travel to listen to people speak about topics I’m interested in. Most are confident experts in the field. My positive experiences range from relatively educational to life changing. I remember the first time I heard Lawrence Lessig speak about Creative Commons. My mind went nuts. It was burping out ideas like I’d just...
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Don't go to Brooklyn Beta
There’s really no reason for you or anyone else to read about any recap of Brooklyn Beta. You should live it in the form of your own time with other designers, creative developers, and critical thinking human beings. I’m actually writing this in hopes that you won’t attend Brooklyn Beta next year, that instead, you’ll realize that you and your web neighbor have everything you need to breathe life...
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
12 posts
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52 Cups of Coffee: Cup 46 →
A nice interview with my favorite CEO, Bo Fishback, about Zaarly.
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Investment Advice
UPDATE: This is just funny, not real. Please be advised ;)
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago,
you would have $49.00 today!
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would
have $33.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago,
you would have $0.00 today.
But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer...
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Gospel Music
I recently tweeted asking for good, honest Black Gospel music recommendations. Here are the responses.
Kirk Franklin
Fred Hammond
Israel Houghton
Mahalia Jackson
Dixie Hummingbirds
Blind Boys of Alabama
Who else would you add?
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July 2011
14 posts
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Working the Product: Align Your Design
One of the most difficult parts of transitioning from service oriented design as a web designer to product oriented design as a Creative Director has been the need to align the design for many moving parts.
At Zaarly we have several teams all with access and need for interface, visual assets, and visual direction. We have a rapid release marketing team with some crazy ideas and amazing talent...
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Tumblr Engineering: Introducing Tumblr's New API →
engineering:
Welcome to the Tumblr API, v2!
Want to know what’s changed and why? Read on. Just want to dive in? Head on over to the API documentation, sign up for a key, and get hacking!
New Features
Features on Tumblr evolve rapidly. With the API, we have not attempted to provide complete feature…
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Working the Product: Demand Process
Good design is born out of process. A process is as simple as a recipe. Some recipe’s like Kraft Macaroni & Cheese call for boxed noodles and packaged dried cheese. It has three simple steps, and consistently produces tired foods, but it is nearly fool proof. Without a recipe your sitting on a pile of ingredients that will always come out different. Not a big deal with macaroni &...
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Working the Product
Six and a half years ago I was working at a thrift store, wondering what the hell I was going to do with my life to provide for a new, and newly pregnant wife. Five years ago I began a journey into a service industry, designing and building websites for small businesses and churches. Three years ago I rebranded as Squared Eye and aimed my sights at taking on more challenging projects with deeper...
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June 2011
5 posts
Constraints
If you are around me for more than a few hours you’ll hear me rant on end about the power of applied constraints. Constraints are most often thought of as a negative force against freedom or creativity but they are not, they are the very thing that gives force and quality to our freedom and creativity.
Water.
Water in a pool on the ground or even in a stagnate pond has a holding...
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Public Writing
Well, I’m back on my old man schedule, and not without a bit of pain. 5:00am is just freakin’ early, no matter how you skin it. With the schedule is this regimen of writing and here this morning I am reticent to write out any of the many thoughts I have for the simple reason that it will be public.
There are many reasons not to write things publicly, but among them is not that public...
May 2011
5 posts
Watchwebvampires:
Apple, Please Hire This Man And Implement His iOS Notifications Already
April 2011
19 posts
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Things I Dream of Doing
These are a few somedays, the way-outs, the hard to reach, but keep reaching for things.
Direct a Western movie, or be in one, or just participate in one. I have always wanted to make a Western. Something that spells out the western spirit. I’m from Colorado, and I think it must be in me to tell the story of the rocks. I see a story with a hard life and broken people pressing through,...
