herrhaase recommended The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People from medium.com:

For every Mark Zuckerberg there are 1000 Jack Zuckermans. Who is Jack Zuckerman? I have no idea. That's my point. If you are Jack Zuckerman and are reading this, I apologize. You aimed for the stars and missed. Your re-entry into the atmosphere involved a broken heat shield and you burned to a crisp by the time you hit the ocean. Now we have no idea who you are.

herrhaase recommended The Filter Future from medium.com:

how do we find a way to make a different, meaningful, even popular image? How do we filter and find the “best” images? That’s where stories come in. The best images have a deeper, richer context that draw us in deeper, that bring us back, that show us something new every time we look at them.

herrhaase recommended What Goes Wrong from foundersatwork.com:

A day after Lockitron submitted their campaign, Kickstarter changed their policy about hardware companies and rejected them. The Lockitron guys decided to build their own Kickstarter and they did it in less than a week. They wondered if anyone would even come. Not only did people come, but they've already sold close to $2 million dollars' worth of Lockitrons this way. And they didn't need to give a cut to Kickstarter.

herrhaase recommended Adam Wood from colepeters.com:

Good designers do not sit down and decide to do “flat” one day and “realistic” the next. Good designers design for context, utilising all that they’ve learned and forming a response that is uniquely their own — not the fan base’s.

herrhaase recommended Steve Jobs and I from mantia.me:

When I was sixteen years old, I dreamed of a day that I’d be able to work at Apple, and when the day came that I got an email forwarded down to me from Steve about how the blue in the icon wasn’t beautiful enough, I knew I was living that dream.

herrhaase recommended Sterility v. Simplicity from medium.com:

It happens because the fewer elements there are the more each one has to be worth; if they're not speaking to each other then there's no way they'll speak to the viewer, which is the ultimate goal. If a design isn't well thought out then there's a high chance it will lack originality and character

herrhaase recommended The Flat Design Era from layervault.tumblr.com:

We believe that elegant interfaces are ones that have the most impact with the fewest elements.

herrhaase recommended Internet Users Demand Less Interactivity from theonion.com:

In addition to demanding less interactivity, Internet users requested fewer links and clickable icons connected to social media outlets through which they could email, share, tweet, pin, blog, or re-blog content. Many said that when they did come across something they found interesting or amusing, nine times out of 10 they just wanted to keep it to themselves.

herrhaase recommended Silicon Valley Can Suck It from timothybsmith.com:

Being an entrepreneur used to mean something. Entrepreneurs were innovators. They weren’t content with the way things were and dreamt of new and better ways to do them; it wasn’t something you could just put in your Twitter bio and it certainly didn’t give you license to be a douche.

herrhaase recommended Elon Musk, the Rocket Man With a Sweet Ride from smithsonianmag.com:

Listening to the self-confident and boyish 41-year-old wearing blue jeans and a black and white checked shirt rocking back and forth in his Aeron chair, he sounds ridiculous: He talks about nuclear fusion and colonizing Mars and airplanes that take off vertically. You want to slap him, put him in his place, or just laugh and dismiss him, which is what the aerospace industry did when he first announced plans to disrupt an industry so technically difficult and capital intensive that it has belonged to the world’s richest governments.

herrhaase recommended Why Designers Have an Attitude from informationarchitects.net:

Sometimes it’s better to use a super star outfit and make people understand: “Don’t waste my time, don’t mess with me, I am a magician, if you doubt me, I’ll put a spell on you”.

herrhaase recommended The Quiet Ones from nytimes.com:

It’s a pathology that seems increasingly common, I suspect in part because people now spend so much time in the solipsist’s paradise of the Internet that they carry its illusion of invisible (and inaudible) omniscience back with them out into the real world.

herrhaase recommended Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others from wired.com:

First, it has to change our relationship to time. Then it has to change our relationship to space. And, crucially, it has to change our relationship to one another. Individually, each of these transformations can be unsettling, but if you hit all three? Panic!

herrhaase recommended 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady from fastcompany.com:

There are restaurants all over the place that I like to go to that have been around a long time, 30 years or more, and thinking about that, that’s an incredible run. I don’t know what percentage of tech companies have been around 30 years. The other interesting thing about restaurants is you could have a dozen Italian restaurants in the city and they can all be successful. It’s not like in the tech world, where everyone wants to beat each other up, and there’s one winner.

herrhaase recommended The Fight from dcurt.is:

But the truth is that, in order to make progress, you need to physically and mentally fight against the momentum of ordinary events. The default state of any new idea is failure. It’s the execution–the fight against inertia–that matters.