Jonathan Quaade
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Jonathan Quaade
We found that being able to freely write notes anywhere in our planning tool provided a graceful fallback for any situation: we could write down anything as text if a more ideal structured data format was not available. We frequently found ourselves mixing mentions and formulas together with freeform text notes and annotations to capture thoughts
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So, if you’re a programmer: the next time you come across an annoying problem on a web app frontend, maybe consider writing a browser extension to make it better, and then share it so that other people can benefit too.
For your next side project, make a browser extension
Embrace naivety / Talk at CSM split this up
Paul – This is great! I really like the structure of problem > tactic > principles — and to facilitate a workshop for the students to identify, and think through how to tackle them, and not ignore them — is perfect!
To pose the prompt “I want to…” to the students would elicit an array of thing for them to address, when I worked at the BBC they used to do a great ‘Hopes & Fears’ exercise before every project, to individually map them out, and then to think through how to mitigate or tackle any fears or challenges. It makes me think that this aligns to your workshop… What do you want? How do you get there? What are the obstacles? What are the ways to overcome them?
So, if a brand isn't the product, the copywriting, the mission statement, the founder's vision, the designer's aesthetics, or the employees' actions, what is it? A brand is a cultural phenomenon that emerges only when these things come into contact with people. A brand lives in the minds of those who are aware of it.
As a brand grows, it becomes
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The famous Anton Ego speech in Ratatouille:
In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.
We risk very little, yet enjoy a position of those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgement.
We thrive on negative criticism.
Which is fun to write and to read.
But the bitter truth we critics must face, is that in the grand scheme of things, the
... See moreDon't leave anything for later.
Later you lose interest.
Later opportunities fade.
Later your regrets come.
Later you lost your chance.
Later you lose interest.
Later opportunities fade.
Later your regrets come.
Later you lost your chance.
having the idea is all the proof you need that you are ready to make it.
Midgley specifically challenged Descartes' famous thought experiment where he sits by his fireplace and questions everything he can possibly doubt, including the existence of other people. Descartes concludes that the only thing he can know with absolute certainty is that he is thinking (and therefore exists) - the famous "Cogito, ergo sum."
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It is clear that the path forward for me is to seek that balance of hard, valuable, and fun in every project I start, join, back, or advise. Hard is for intellectual engagement, the search for solution by any means necessary. Valuable is the knowledge that if this, whatever this is, works, the world will never be the same. Fun is the sense of
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