Category: Delicious Bookmarks

Your app makes me fat — Serious Pony:

If your app is confusing and your tech support / FAQ isn’t helpful, you’re drawing down my scarce, precious, cognitive resources. If your app behaves counter-intuitively – even just once – I’ll leak cog resources every time I use it, forever, wondering, "wait, did that do what I expected?". Or let’s say your app is super easy to use, but designed and tuned for persuasive brain hacks ("nudges", gamification, behavioral tricks, etc.) to keep me "engaged" for your benefit, not mine (lookin’ at you, Zynga)… you’ve still drained my cognitive resources.

How Clothes Should Fit:

Your appearance; whether sharp and confident, relaxed and cool, or sloppy and juvenile – is often reduced to the fit of your clothing.

Seth’s Blog: How long between leaps?:

How often do we look at an asset (an organization, a source of income, a technology) and acknowledge that it’s our past, not our future? A generation ago, you might be able to go forty years without being forced into a leap like this. In many industries, though, it might even be forty weeks (or forty days). Not something to be avoided. Something to initiate.

IPA Day Is Back: August 1, 2013:

Woot! Summer is here, and you know what that means—IPA Day is right around the corner! On Thursday, Aug. 1, join beer enthusiasts, breweries and bars across the globe in a collective toast to one of craft beer’s most iconic styles: the India pale ale.

Inside Pixar’s Leadership:

We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I Think there is a corollary: if everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent error and over plan things.

Seth’s Blog: Getting picked (need to vs. want to):

It’s easier than ever to imagine a successful project or career or organization that isn’t dependent on being picked by those with power.

If you’re frustrated that you’re not getting picked, one plan is to up your game, to hustle harder, to figure out how to hone a pitch and push, push, push. But in the era of picking yourself, it seems to me that you’re better off finding a path that doesn’t require you get picked in order to succeed.