Martin Wolf
Martin is from Hamburg, has some followers and follows great people. You can find Martin’s tweets at @_martinwolf and website at visuellegedanken.de.
I craft websites, take photos and write about both.
»Software developers tend to be software addicts who think their job is to write code. But it's not. Their job is to solve problems. Don't celebrate the creation of code, celebrate the creation of solutions.«
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also recommended this article. »I learned to let my photos marinate. What I mean by that is to let them sit for a period of time before presenting them. This could be a few days, a week or even a year. Street photography is personal work so there’s no real due date and there’s no real rush.«
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Martin Wolf Give yourself and your photos some time.
»Ultimately we boil down to yet another well-worn cliche..it’s really about the pictures. Whether you shot with a 12mm and Kodacolor Gold 100 or the latest dslr capable of grinding coffee and launching a cruise missile, I’m going to simply look at what you created with your tool of choice. If what you created sucks, I’m going to offer suggestive help, and if what you created is grand I’m going to offer praise.«
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Martin Wolf Daniel Milnor on the digital VS analog war. It’s ridiculous, but neither side stops this argument.
»Die Social-App-Blase zerplatzt, ohne dass dies sonderliche Spuren hinterlässt. Zum einen, weil noch immer Gründer den Traum vom großen Durchbruch im Social Web träumen. Und zum anderen, weil diejenigen, denen dies nicht gelingt, dank Übernahmen trotzdem als Gewinner aus der Sache hervorgehen. Für sie war der Aufbau des Startups dann eben ein etwas in die Länge gezogener Bewerbungsprozess bei Facebook, Google oder Twitter.«
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Martin Wolf Martin Weigert (@netzwertig) über die Social-App-Blase. Leuchtet ein, was er schreibt.
»I want all the attractive women I knew in high school and college to read it. I want them to be amazed and impressed and feel a vague regret over their decision not to have sex with me, and maybe if I get divorced or become a widower, I can have sex with them someday at a reunion. I want Hollywood to buy my article and turn it into a movie, even though they kind of already made the movie ten years ago with Jim Carrey. I want to get congratulatory e-mails and job offers that I can politely decline. Or accept if they're really good. Then get a generous counteroffer from my boss.«
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and 11 other people also recommended this article. »I think all writing is done to benefit the writer on some level. Writing becomes a way to organize thought and work your way through a problem. A lot of the book’s questions are my own, and I think that it lends the writing a certain quality. A question isn’t left alone until I’ve sufficiently convinced myself of a satisfactory response to it.«
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Martin Wolf Frank Chimero about his book 'The Shape of Design'.
»Turning off Wi-Fi isn't suddenly going to make you a different person. You're going to have all the same problems you had before, only now they're going to be even more annoying to other people. Paul doesn't need to quit the internet for a year, Paul needs to control himself and reduce his use to reasonable limits, get some creative hobbies, and spend more time with his friends.«
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Martin Wolf Agreed.
»Abandoning reading will force me to be better with my time, vastly more aloof to current events, and a complete bore to everyone around me. And if you’re still crazy enough to be talking to your computer screen, you might be asking, “Why couldn’t you just limit how much you’re reading instead of cutting it out completely?” The answer is simple, young one - because common sense doesn’t get page views.«
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Martin Wolf Great indirect response to Paul Miller, who wants to leave the internet for one year. ( www.theverge.com/2012/4/30/2988798/paul-miller-year-without-internet)
»Remember art class? How well did you do in it? I used to be pretty damn good at drawing stuff when I was a kid but never managed to get an A in art.«
»Well, here we are fifteen years later and thanks to the rise of mobile, bandwidth is once again at a premium and we can be pretty sure that plenty of people are accessing our sites on slow connections. Yet again, mobile is highlighting issues that were always there. When did we get so lazy and decide it was acceptable to send giant unoptimised images down the pipe to our long-suffering visitors?«
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Martin Wolf With increasing mobile browser usage we as developers once again need to keep websites as small and fast as possible.
»So, begin to change your mind and beliefs on being nervous, anxious, self-conscious and fearful to being positive, curious, interested, adventurous and courageous.«
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Martin Wolf Rinzi Ruiz (@rinzizen) about your emotions while shooting on the street.
»Die digitale Vernetzung verändert die Arbeitswelt dramatisch. Aber weil das in Deutschland nicht ins Konzept passt, wird es ignoriert.«
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Martin Wolf Sascha Lobo über die vernetzte Maschine.
»I believe that human experience is entirely subjective. People are only able to set their 1-to-10 scale based upon what they've experienced as being a 10. But their 10 may be your 2, and you have to respect its position to them.«
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Martin Wolf Interesting thought. I have to agree.
»As a startup, you have everything going against you. A 95%+ chance at failure, no money, no structure, no one to blame. Ironically, that's also the opportunity, you have nothing to lose, no one to disappoint, and not enough customers to care if you disappear«
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Martin Wolf Being good is not enough.
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Marcus Kurz you must be ten times better then the rest!
»I’m optimistic. When we started reddit, it was a different world, and way harder for people to spread ideas and words. We went from a desert to a jungle.«
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Martin Wolf Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian at TNW Conference 2012.
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Julia S. Great read! Internet ♥
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Martin Wolf So true. And for a matter of fact I started to learn HTML/CSS and the like because I had a problem: I needed a website. :D
Florian Letsch I agree with his point of rather learning how to solve problems than just wanting to write code. But the general idea of bringing more people to a general understanding of how our technical world is working behind the scenes seems very important to me. I know, the article agrees with that as well. But in my opinion learning how to code looks like the best way to get an impression of how everything works.
Just telling someone how creating software works in theory ("You write some lines of a so called programming language and then something happens in the memory and you see something on the screen... kind of.") doesn't really do the job. Have someone create his/her first 10 line program ("Oh my god, it prints my name on the screen!!11") not only is a great personal (more)achievement but actually perceives a lot more of the technical background of how computers work than any article that a politician could be handed "so you understand how computers work."
I am not saying Mike Bloomberg need that knowledge for doing his job as a mayor. But I am saying he still benefits from that knowledge, even if it's just for himself, for a person living in the 21st century.