Jakob Plöns recommended You don’t need every customer from marco.org:

You will never please everyone. You will never win that battle.

Jakob Plöns recommended Why doesn’t anybody copy Apple? from asymco.com:

Put another way: Why is it that everyone wants to copy Apple’s products but nobody wants to copy being Apple?

Jakob Plöns recommended Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger’s 8 Principles For Building Products People Want from techcrunch.com:

Never Build Without Sketching – Mike says him and Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom would go to a cafe with little iPhone design pads where “we’d build and throw away entire features. You’d waste three or four pieces of paper, not three weeks of coding”.

Jakob Plöns recommended Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore from wired.com:

This summer I learned how to get into, well, everything. With two minutes and $4 to spend at a sketchy foreign website, I could report back with your credit card, phone, and Social Security numbers and your home address. Allow me five minutes more and I could be inside your accounts for, say, Amazon, Best Buy, Hulu, Microsoft, and Netflix. With yet 10 more, I could take over your AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. Give me 20—total—and I own your PayPal.

Jakob Plöns recommended 19 Things To Stop Doing In Your 20s from thoughtcatalog.com:

10. Stop blaming yourself for being human. You’re fine. Having a little anxiety is fine. Being scared is fine. Your secrets are fine. You’re well-meaning. You’re intelligent. You’re blowing it out of proportion. You’re fine.

Jakob Plöns recommended The iPhone 5 Is Completely Amazing and Utterly Boring from wired.com:

But the iPhone? It’s boring. And it’s probably going to remain that way for the foreseeable future.

Jakob Plöns recommended QUOTE.fm’s Read Service Leaves Beta to Answer the “Why” of Social Reading from pandodaily.com:

Readers are trying to answer three questions: What they should read, why they might be interested, and how they should read it. Twitter answers the “what” and services like Instapaper solve the “how” – Quote.fm is the only service I’ve found that does both, and also addresses the “why.”

Jakob Plöns recommended Stupid realizations I had since I moved out of my parents' house from maxfriedrich.de:

If you’re at home alone, it’s still a smart move to put on pants. You’re the only person to answer the door.

Jakob Plöns recommended Being in Berlin from uarrr.org:

It seems like playing is over and life begins and it feels good.

Jakob Plöns recommended Barrel of a Gun from medium.com:

How much can you really know about yourself until you've looked down the barrel of a gun pointed between your eyes? It was late Halloween night. I was 15 years old and had been out at a friend's house a couple of streets away from mine, in upper middle class suburban America. I decided it was time to head home, so I started walking, that's when the car rolled up next to me.

Jakob Plöns recommended Pixel Perfect from daringfireball.net:

I’ve spent my whole life thinking about dots, largely in the form of on-screen pixels.

Jakob Plöns recommended My next text editor from marco.org:

I’ve now chosen my TextMate replacement, but before I reveal it, let me give a huge disclaimer: You will have your own opinion. It’s probably safer to talk about Jesus, gun control, Israel, global warming, parenting techniques, regional pizza styles, Linux distributions, why I don’t like cats, or my favorite PHP features.

Jakob Plöns recommended Dribbble's Position on Spec Work from blog.dribbble.com:

Well, we don’t like it at all.

Jakob Plöns recommended Schon x-mal gesehen from jetzt.sueddeutsche.de:

Die von Spengeler neu designten Logos wirken zwar zeitgemäß, gleichzeitig aber so aussageschwach, dass man sich beim Durchklicken intuitiv das gute alte McDonalds-M oder den Coca-Cola-Schriftzug zurückwünscht.

Jakob Plöns recommended The Dark Knight Rises from fucktotum.net:

Rising. Everybody’s rising. Rising to power, to freedom. Rising from The Pit, to strength, closure. Rising up a platform to be the new hero Gotham deserves.