Don’t trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover.”

Jimmy Breslin

Responsiveness isn’t just something we can build into our product. It’s an attitude we can adopt. We can learn to listen to the changing environment, to be available to respond. ”

Wilson Miner

What do we want to spend more time with? What shapes us? What nourishes us? What do we want to see grow?”

Wilson Miner

Design is the choices we make about the world we *want* to live in.”

Wilson Miner

We’re very fancy now—with our user interface design and our user-centered design and our mobile first and our right ways and wrong ways.

But we’re all just geeks—folks in glasses and ties and knits and tweeds fiddling, fumbling, exploring.

That picture there, up above, is one of the first computer games ever made. One of the first computer interfaces.

“Hey guys, this is the first computer monitor… ever.

Let’s do something with it!”

That’s where we come from. That’s our roots: fiddling and exploring and being excited in tweed.

It makes me want to stop looking for more right answers and start looking for more of that “shit, I have no idea what we’re getting into here but I can’t stop being excited about it!” spirit.

Now we are entering a third age in which the central economic actor is someone who both produces and consumes in the same act. I like the term “creator,” as this new kind of actor is doing something more fundamental than the mere sum of their simultaneous production and consumption. Creators are ordinary people whose everyday actions create value. [...] Thus, just as the time clock symbolized the producer economy and the credit card the consumer economy, the computer mouse is the symbol of the emerging creator economy.”

Paul Saffo viaPierat

Do what you love is not the same as love what you do.”

Ben Chestnut

You always hear people say, ‘do what you love, do what you love.’ That’s partly true, but if it’s business, if you start a business doing what you love, it will kill you, it will kill your passion.

If you like to bake and you start a bakery, you will hate baking very soon.

I like ‘love what you do’ better because, it’s kinda like, wherever you are just be good at it, embrace it, love it, and eventually success will find you.

I actually kind of believe that.

But you never forget your passion.”

This is the life. This is the work.

The work is spiritual—it matters.

The work is sweaty. The work is followthrough.

The work is about solving problems.

Real problems—not problems that only exist in our heads.

The work is about fishing. The work is about farming.

The work is about insights. The work is about ideas.

But the work is mostly about sweat and followthrough.

Props to David on the whole “the work is spiritual” seed.

Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.”

Jonathan Coulton via pappy

The new canon should bind the content to the device.”

Mark Boulton