I stumbled onto this post the other day through Hacker News. Basically Ryan Dahl (the guy who wrote node.js, a web framework that makes running web servers easy with javascript) called out the deplorable state of software today.
I fully agree with him.
And here’s why - I’ve seen…
The inventor of cool: Etienne Mineur (by Scobleizer)
"The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing."
— The Rise of “Worse is Better” by Richard Gabriel
To Catch A Millennial (Live at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 9-07-11)
Don’t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design
Meaningful Play. Getting »Gamification« Right.
Long After the Thrill: Sustaining Passionate Users
"Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing the latest sentence in a very long story you’ve been listening to — all the pieces of music you’ve ever heard."
— Brian Eno, in conversation with David Mitchell, The Believer (When asked, “Do you agree that no new genre is ever invented, but rather hybridised from something that was there before?” Eno answers: “Yes. Nothing starts from nowhere.”)
(Source: austinkleon, via thinksmith)
"I cannot understand why human beings should be so little individualized, why they should behave with such great collective uniformity. I do not understand why when I ask for a grilled lobster at a restaurant, I’m never served a cooked telephone."
— Salvador Dalí on Decadence, Death and Immortality: The 1958 Interview | Brain Pickings
"The most productive people rarely have more than 6 hours or so of really concentrated work per day. If you can ensure you get that every day, you don’t need to economize on sleep."
