I think it’s important to remember when we’re all trying to start something from scratch that you have to start at zero, and the first product will probably suck. It’ll be a motherboard, when what you really wanted to build was an all-aluminum Macbook Air with a Retina display.
Apple’s Minimum Viable Product
(via Jon Stemmle, Topspin’s VP of Engineering)
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This is, hands down with no exaggeration, one of the most inspiring and heartfelt collections of advice I have read.
Adding this to my advice trove for my almost-one-year-old daughter.
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Scott Stevens Full Part from THE LAST ONES (by VIDEOGRASS)
IN. SANE. Now I know what snowboarding film I’m watching next. Wow.
The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist
I’m a HUGE fan of todo lists. They help me stay organized, prioritize my day and add structure to an otherwise chaotic day.
I recently discovered what appears to be the best yet simplest way to keep a todo list: a GitHub Gist.
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Early adopters usually turn into early quitters.
If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public.
“For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” he said. “I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn’t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
“All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed,” he said. “That is a milestone we left a long time ago. Right now, all we are looking at are stretch goals.”