Passion, Persistence, and Pushy Mothers

How do ordinary people become successful?
So you want to be successful; but you’re having some trouble understanding all of the complexities & information the world keeps throwing at you in the name of ‘being successful’. Let’s try and simplify this a bit…
What makes ordinary people successful? According to 500 interview of successful people, 10 million [...]

real quick…on visualization

i just happen to have been thinking about visualization quite a bit lately, mostly in the context of delivering information in new & unique ways. when you’re thinking about how you will captivate users with your information design, here’s some really good examples to draw from…

elastic lists, tag clouds 5.0, fluxury [Moritz Stefaner]
we feel fine, [...]

there’s nothing functional about a functional spec

Useless Specs
A “spec” is close to useless. I have never seen a spec that was both big enough to be useful and accurate.
And I have seen lots of total crap work that was based on specs. It’s the single worst way to write software, because it by definition means that the software was written to [...]

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