This article is a month old and I’m just now getting to it… Great reminder none the less from Elliot Jay Stocks on the concept of “content out” approach to web design.
It’s something that I’ve been guilty of not doing in the past, but now practice as much as possible. In fact, this site was built in the browser and was strict in adhering to the concept. That wasn’t too hard though as there is no real “decoration” around any of the content. But the idea is there.
Most of you may already know that what I post about on this site are merely things that interest me. I’m not a full-time writer. What I am is a full time student of business so to speak. My passion is in design and my interests are in tech.
I had a very inspirational meeting last night with my GSIX Corp, Inc. business partner, Nery Morales. One of many as is often the case. We reviewed current projects as usual, but as we get closer to the end of 2011 we have also had the chance to spend more time making plans for next year and reviewing all of the opportunities available to us. And that is exactly what inspires me. Not that we have opportunities, but that we are able to build a quality of life to make us happy. It’s not just work, it’s a lifestyle.
John Siracusa unleashes on a long list of “minor” details that Walter Isaacson apparently forgot or neglected to double check.
I think that John’s criticism comes from the fact that he, as do many of you reading this, understand a large part of Steve Jobs career. That’s to say, you know what he accomplished and understand the great scale at which he did it. And the book doesn’t go into any of that. It barely mentions the topic of accomplishments. I for one wanted more.
But was Isaacson trying to show us something else? The person his family knew? I think that would be fine, except, it might be hard to do without understanding how work too and seeing how one affected the other.
John Gruber on Isaacson’s comparison of Steve Jobs and Samuel Crompton and Richard Roberts:
Jobs understood technology but was not an engineer. He had profoundly exquisite taste but was not a designer. What it was that Jobs actually did is much of the mystery of his life and his work, and Isaacson, frustratingly, had seemingly little interest in that, or any recognition that there even was any sort of mystery as to just what Jobs’s gifts really were.
Your team will take their cues from you. If you are frustrated and complaining, they will be frustrated and complaining. If, however, you take a bad situation and make the best of it and keep a positive attitude, that will go a long way to keeping the overall morale of your team positive as well. When the complaints do come, don’t ignore them, address them head on and diffuse the situation.
The article in general does a great job discussing how to lead a team, not just making the move from team member to team leader. But this point is the one the find most important for any organization. Lead with passion, enthusiasm, compassion, empathy and authority. Be human and your team will respond well.
And no matter what, don’t forget this:
Throughout this article, I have referenced the move from team member to team leader, but the reality is that even though you may be leading the team, you are still a part of it, not apart from it.
@anildash When somebody collects money in your name w/out your consent with a cut, it’s called something else in many boroughs of NYC.
Continuing the discussions and previous posts on Readabilities recent pivot, I must admit that although I was once I fan of their service, I never stopped to think about the model this way.
I’m sure it was a ‘calculated risk’ that Readability took in order to get things rolling and definitely not done with bad intentions. But I point it out because it’s this detail that still continues to interest me about the company. How do you solve for such a problem? Perhaps there should have been a policy in place that forced money into hold until the publisher was contacted to claim it. The publisher could then have the opportunity to sign up and accept or decline and have the money sent back to the user. Even if that is not the cleanest solution, it would have avoided a potentially sticky situation today.
Marco recaps his previous business relationship with the folks and makes his peace with the startups recent pivot.
Readability was a service that I was once very excited about for what it could do for publishers, but I doubt I’ll convert or even consider the service in its new state. I’m a loyal Instapaper guy myself.
It’s very hard to get much thinner than the Air and still have a traditional notebook form factor. Take away too much and you essentially wind up with the iPad.So it’s going to have to come with advances in software, in interfaces and new forms of input, like voice and touch, and the continual improvement in battery size, life, and — while we know chips will regularly get faster — how manufacturers deal with heat dissipation and battery life in conjunction with those chips’ advances.
Follow the link below to see Shawn’s original comments to Erica Ogg. But what I wanted to add is that yes, we’ll likely see the gap between the iPad and the MacBook Airs closed in years to come, but that is not all. There will be other changes to the lineup.
What I’m suggesting is a single lineup with a 7″, 11″, 13″, 15″ and 17″. The 7″ (iPad) being just as powerful as the 11″ (MacBook), sans-keyboard, and the remaining sizes having just as much power as the current Pro’s, but with an Air body. The Air and Pro names will be dropped perhaps keeping only the iPad and MacBook names as reference for the different tablet and notebook form factors.
