Category: Delicious Bookmarks

Seth’s Blog: On doing the work:

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Tool first or process first | LinkedIn:

One thing I would say though is that the tool should never drive the process. What you are then creating is an instruction manual for the tool. Of course you can use ‘cool features’ in the tool to enhance your processes and sometimes the limitations of the tool will dictate how the mechanics of the process flow work, but the process should always be about what you are trying to achieve from a business value perspective and not what buttons the screen has.

A Modest Proposal: Better Criticism, More Art – 99U:

Actual, useful critiquing typically comes from solicitation on the part of the creator. Can you please proofread my writing? Does this website work for your company and speak to your audience? Does this video hit the right notes and is it on-brand?

Daring Fireball Linked List: The Problem Is With the Product:

When your own employees don’t use or support your product, the problem is with the product, not the employees.

Huprich: Wisdom Comes in the Smallest of Packages. | The Big Picture:

Experience is gained by learning from your own mistakes; wisdom is gained by learning from the mistakes of others

Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer:

Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.

Pete Brown: Why it’s OK to drink a lot this Christmas:

We know that fire needs to be treated with respect and caution. We understand completely that if we control it, it’s a boon, but that if we let it get out of control, it can cause devastating damage. That’s why we keep children away from it, and why there are very clear guidelines on how to handle it. We don’t see people calling for the abolition of fire. We rarely see people blaming fire itself when it destroys. We understand that when it kills, it was either deliberate and criminal human action, a tragic accident, or the result of negligence. We might say that such tragedies show the need for better education around fire or clearer warnings, and that’s fair enough. But we don’t hear anyone arguing that a house fire proves we should only be allowed to cook a meal or stay warm once or twice a week.

The Death of the Blog, Again, Again | Whatever:

…the point Zach makes — that you have to go to your audience rather than simply hang out an online shingle and wait for it come to you — is a valid one… Also, I suspect in many ways a distributed presence online for a writer or creative person is a little bit like having multiple revenue streams, which is to say, a way to buffer yourself against one stream dipping or drying up.

inessential.com: Ack-ack:

I don’t know how I could tell Amazon’s harmless, happy-day drones from Google’s real-time people-watchers — or those of the police or the NSA. It’s best to shoot them all down.

» Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality Clay Shirky:

Like all organizational models, waterfall is mainly a theory of collaboration. By putting the most serious planning at the beginning, with subsequent work derived from the plan, the waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work. Instead, waterfall insists that the participants will understand best how things should work before accumulating any real-world experience, and that planners will always know more than workers.