quote: Up to Nothing

We are part of an industry that is addicted to enthusiasm, to getting things done, and discovering the new, but sometimes the right move is stopping and putting this world on hold. You need to learn how to build quiet moments of nothing as a measure of balance. ~Rands …

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quote: Three Years in Boulder

Years later, waking up and seeing the mountains still puts a smile on my face, I wondered if it would fade. It has not. ~Jeremy Tanner, Three Years in Boulder
That feeling you get when you look at the mountains and smile? I call that an …

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link: Evolution of Storage

I don’t know any of the details behind this info-graphic, but it’s really fun. Click through to the original post for a larger version. Visit link…

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quote: You’ll never get what you want.

…I give people a list of things to read and try out, then come back 6 months later to find them in exactly the same spot. So what’s going wrong here? I think they’re after the wrong thing.

The problem here is that they know what they want to be, not what they …

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Risk & Metal: iPhone Wallpaper

I randomly made a couple iPhone Wallpapers for myself this morning and thought I’d share them.

The first, Risk is a bit inspired by this Andy Rutdledge post (and corresponding desktop wallpapers), though my desire to remind myself to take risks is somewhat more …

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quote: Risk

Working to malign the idea of risk and basing sweeping policy and cultural changes on the notion of removing risk from life is about the most misguided and destructive effort one could undertake. ~Andy Rutledge, Risk
We can certainly …

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quote: On Self-Promotion

But direct self-promotion is ineffective and will go unnoticed unless it is backed by a more indirect (and more valuable) form of marketing: namely, sharing information and promoting others. ~Jeffrey Zeldman
Already well-quoted, but I …

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video: Field Notes Colors

I love this ad/promo video for the Field Notes Colors subscription. I also love the notebooks, but as beautiful as the Colors sets look, can’t bring myself to pay for it. I just don’t go through that many notebooks in a year…

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quote: The single most important question for business success

Why are you in business? Why do you do business they way you do? Why do you think it will take you 20 years to grow a mature business (why not five)? Why do my customers buy from me? Why am I stuck at the same revenue as last year? ~Chuck Blakeman, The single most …

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link: Oh, Starling’s Joy Giveaway

I can’t believe Thanksgiving is this week. Seriously, that shit snuck up on me big-time. Seeing as how it’s about that time of year for holiday music, I thought I’d highlight some friends, Dan Craig and Jessica Sonner who have released an EP of Christmas …

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video: Will Smith Medley

It’s Friday and this little diddy is super-fun, so why the hell not? Pear and the Beard have a medley of Will Smith-themed songs, and they made a nice little music video to go with it.

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quote: Three things about Marco Arment

It’s just that it’s mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems. And, then they rend garments, gnash teeth, and impotently curse the clouds for God’s …

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quote: Bug tracking isn’t a network-effect business

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary. ~David Heinemeier Hansson, Bug tracking isn’t a network-effect business
True in business and in life.

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a/b Testing on Twitter

I’m currently working on a book cover design for none other than my dad, Chuck Blakeman. We’ve got a few different designs we’ve narrowed it down to, and I thought I’d have some fun by throwing a couple of them out on Twitter to get some responses.

The …

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video: Solitude

“A long journey in solitude searching for hope.

A film that communicates in a esthetic pictures poetry and emotion, to explore a new experience in Cinemato Graphy.”

I’m enamored with this short film by Robin RIsser. Shot in the Charente region of France, the …

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link: pick.im - a startup in the open

My friend Andrew Hyde is pursuing a new venture in addition to all the other awesome things he does. It’s called: pick.im. He’s putting together some tools for the freelance market. If you’re a freelancer or small services business, you’ll want to keep an …

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quote: Creating Controversy for its own Sake

But the web will still be full of arrogant, uninformed, polarizing, self-promoting, controversy-creating content that has ramifications no one wants to own up to. And consequently, the web will still be lacking in common courtesy, humility, and the admittance that most …

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quote: Unfounded Anger

I’m not looking to be a hall monitor, or suggesting that people shouldn’t be angry from time to time, but right now, at this stage in web design’s evolution, we’ve swung too far away from a positive discussion. ~Tom Watson, Unfounded Anger
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link: Chatrbox

I’m loving the new app Chatrbox from Elliott Kember. It’s well executed, simple, and, especially if you’re using a WebKit browser, really, really sexy. Hector Simpson helped Elliott with the design. You can read more about it in Elliott’s announcement blog …

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quote: The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals

We rarely have meetings. I hate them. They’re a huge waste of time, and they’re costly. It’s not one hour; it’s 10, because you pulled 10 people away from their real work. Plus, they chop your day into small bits, so you have only 20 minutes of free time here or …

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