21 5 / 2013
Unknowable: Rands In Repose
The rumor at Apple was that Steve capped many of the teams in Cupertino. Mac OS X and Marketing Communications being two successful teams that had their headcount capped. During the 2000s, while Apple was gaining traction across the planet, the team responsible for getting the word out, Marketing Communications (“MarCom”), was allegedly capped at 100 heads. The reasoning I heard was that Steve wanted to keep the teams feeling small, but, more importantly, I think he wanted to keep them knowable.
You know, this works for software and hardware too. The less features or parts, the more “knowable” it is to you. It is also a good reason to stick with something (or in the above example, someone) for a long time. Anytime you make a replacement it costs not only time but knowledge. On a team, it means that someone has to get caught up to speed in knowledge and trust has to be re-formed over time. Those same things apply to objects as well.
Think about this the next time you are considering that shiny new to-do manager or “minimalist” text editor over the one that you already have and know really well.
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11 5 / 2013
Our Mutton Chops and Malai Kebab! So damn good! at Sunny’s Dhabha – View on Path.
25 4 / 2013
"Don’t aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one’s dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run—in the long run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it."
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13 3 / 2013
Ernest Hemingway reading The New York Times in bed, naked – can’t cover as much with an iPad… By his side, surprisingly, a dog. Photograph by George Leavens.
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13 3 / 2013
"79 percent report that they would only retry an app once or twice if it failed to work the first time. Only 16 percent said they would give it more than two attempts."
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13 2 / 2013
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Everyday, millions of innocent children are unwillingly part of a terrible dictatorship. The government takes them away from their families and brings them to cramped, crowded buildings where they are treated as slaves in terrible conditions. For seven hours a day, they are indoctrinated to love their current conditions and support their government and society. As if this was not enough, they are often held for another two hours to exert themselves almost to the point of physical exhaustion, and sometimes injury. Then, when at home, during the short few hours which they are permitted to see their families they are forced to do additional mind-numbing work which they finish and return the following day.
This isn’t some repressive government in some far-off country. It’s happening right here: we call it school.
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(Source: , via explore-blog)
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13 2 / 2013
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
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