Autor: Tim Strehle

Paul Graham – The Acceleration of Addictiveness: „One sense of „normal“ is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best. […] Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We’re all trying to…

Paul Graham – The Top Idea in Your Mind: „I realized recently that what one thinks about in the shower in the morning is more important than I’d thought. I knew it was a good time to have ideas. Now I’d go further: now I’d say it’s hard to do a really good job on…

Scott Adams – The Amazingness of Instant: „I’ve discovered that 90% of its usefulness comes from the fact that it’s speedy. Yesterday a fox walked by the window, and I was the only witness. Someone asked what type it was, and I was able to point to a picture on the iPad in less than…

Gartner RAS Core Research Note at Adobe.com – HTML5 and the Future of Adobe Flash [PDF]: „The root causes for a suboptimal user experience consist of lack of appropriate process and governance, and lack of a genuine commitment to a quality user experience. Such a commitment would lead organizations to adopt a user-centered, usability-oriented development…

Tim Bray – Forget the Defaults: „Seriously. I’ve learned a lot of programming languages over the years, and I’ve taken care never to learn the operator precedence rules in any of them. It’s easy to get them wrong and get bitten and why should I require that people reading my code learn those stupid rules.“

Phil Gyford – Finishability: „But those old-fashioned constraints of printing can also be a benefit. There’s something satisfying, predictable and achievable about a more-or-less fixed amount of stuff to read appearing on a regular schedule. For example, when faced with most news websites one of the reasons I don’t spend much time reading them is…

Clay Shirky at WSJ.com – Does the Internet Make You Smarter?: „We are living through a similar explosion of publishing capability today, where digital media link over a billion people into the same network. This linking together in turn lets us tap our cognitive surplus, the trillion hours a year of free time the educated…

Derek Powazek – Why Everything Sucks, Why That’s Awesome, and How It’s Changing Us: „Just think about the millions of people on the internet, each in their own timeline of learning something new. Most people will never get to 2,500 hours. They’ll never not suck. It’s not personal, it’s just math. So that’s why the…

Scott Adams – Brain Management: „I have a theory that music appreciation resides in the same part of your brain where you think about yourself. That might be why it’s good to listen to music while doing boring tasks, such as going for a long run, because music interferes with your mind’s ability to think…

Gojko Adzic – Heroes or idiots?: „Ninety minutes and several confusing messages on the PA system later, the aeroplane was firmly on the ground. The passengers found themselves about 500 miles away from where they were supposed to land and their luggage was now touching the ocean floor. They were however all alive, which was…