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What a 100 Year-Old Race to the South Pole Teaches Us About Design

By Adam | Published: June 17, 2010
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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Track Changes to Privacy Policies and Any Webpage with Google Reader

By Adam | Published: January 27, 2010
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

By Adam | Published: December 29, 2009
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, [...]
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