December 2011
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700,000 Daily Activations Isn't Good News →
Oh my… tech journalism (and I use that phrase lightly) plumbs new depths at AllThingsD.
parislemon:
Amit Runchal has a slightly different take on Andy Rubin’s revelation from two days ago that Google is now activating 700,000 Android devices a day. Says Runchal:
But as far as I can tell, the 700,000 number isn’t good for Android. It’s bad. It means that Android activation growth has...
Wanted to do a vertical spread. Found out my E-Trade account doesn’t have that feaure. And, there’s a lengthy approval process…
Frustrating.
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john449:
The standard of success in life isn’t the things. It isn’t the money or the stuff — it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.
—- Abraham
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“What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens: 1949 - 2011.
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“It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told...”
– Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
WTF! If you’re a fan you’d be hoping there’s a lot of missing context from this quote…
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While You Were Gone: On Latin Words →
This is a classy piece; done with sensitivity and sensibility to others. Kudos to the author. It would have been very easy to be blunt and sarcastic.
whileyouweregone:
Brent Simmons recently published a critique of the words used in the tab labels of Twitter’s new iPhone app. It’s a fine piece, but one part of it doesn’t ring true.
In a section titled “What we know about people and words”,...
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How to Accomplish More by Doing Less - Tony... →
No more than a 20 minute walkthrough followed by “model and present” of no more than 90 minutes (often less). Breaks in between of varying lengths. Recognize when you’re tired.
That will be very familiar to FDD people. Here’s a different take on the same truths.
shaneguiter:
During my 30s and 40s, I wrote three books. I sat at my desk each day from 7 am to 7 pm,...
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The Future of Self-Improvement, Part II: The... →
shaneguiter:
Foer identified four principles that he saw the experts using to remain alert and to keep learning:
1. Experts tend to operate outside their comfort zone and study themselves failing. 2. Experts will try to walk in the shoes of someone who’s more competent than them. 3. Experts crave and thrive on immediate and constant feedback. 4. Experts treat what they do like a science. They...
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Seth's Blog: The erosion in the paid media pyramid →
Some good insight here by Seth. The last paragraph is troubling as it’s short on explanation. The implication is the end game is B, L, and F (there is no M), and that F is monetized in some other way (enough attention through limited patronage - ?). This really needs elaboration. That creators can only sell as B or L seems wrong. This confusion aside, this short article is good...
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Money Where Mouth Is →
parislemon:
Apple’s newest board member, Disney CEO Bob Iger, just bought $1 million worth of shares on the open market. Sure, perhaps not much for him in the grand scheme of things. But a million dollars is still a million dollars. And he’s clearly sending a message. Likely a smart one.