Reading Time: < 1 minThere’s a running joke with I.T. folks that they’re seen as expendable, because people often only see them one of two ways: All systems are running great, so why do we have I.T.? Things are broken, so why do we have I.T.? Similar are sound techs at a concert. They’re completely invisible, and often underappreciated, […]
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Johannes Gutenberg was the first Steve Jobs
Reading Time: 2 minIn learning more about Johannes Gutenberg and his creation of the printing press, the similarities with Steve Jobs and the first Macintosh are remarkable. Typeface Both men took a serious stance on high-quality typeface (fonts, essentially), at a place in history when it seemingly didn’t matter. Both men created something spectacular and history-changing, yet were […]
Make More Pots
Reading Time: 2 minOne of the core ideas in Seth Godin’s book The Practice is the idea of continually working hard to refine your craft. Case in point, he said that “if you want to complain that you don’t have any good ideas, please show me all of your bad ideas first.” People that have worked through a […]
Web design tips from Harry Potter
Reading Time: < 1 minHere is a neat article I just found titled “What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Good Web Design“. The idea is that the Harry Potter books themselves aren’t anything special. Nice artwork, but a rectangular shape, standard binding, normal English alphabet, white numbered pages, black text, etc. What makes them special is the content. […]