Design informs most of what we come in contact with whether it be architecture, mobile devices, cars, software and web services, or a school’s curriculum. Sentences are designed, edited down so they convey meaning with efficient elegance. “Good” design delights with its simplicity, its flexibility and ease of use. Design was on my mind while [...]
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What a 100 Year-Old Race to the South Pole Teaches Us About Design
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Track Changes to Privacy Policies and Any Webpage with Google Reader
The Google Reader team recently announced that Reader now allows you to follow changes to any web page, even if that page doesn’t support RSS. I am a heavy Google Reader user (particularly on my iPhone) and this is a great tweak that has some interesting applications. For example, eBay sellers could subscribe to eBay’s [...]
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Go Into the Garage
I met with a VC named Jim Millar a number of years ago, and he made a great observation: If you want to be at the right place at the right time, you need to be in as many places at once as possible. It’s a twist on the “you make your own luck” adage, [...]
