July 2009
1 post
45 lessons life taught me
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:" 1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. 4. Your job won't take care of you when you...
May 2009
2 posts
“I like where I am.
And I like where I’ve been.
And I’m over the...”
– Episode 5, Law of Attraction in Action, DVD.
Video "Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: How to... →
April 2009
9 posts
IT wisdom
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Programmer_Should_Know
http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Software_Project_Manager_Should_Know
http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/97-things-every-software-architect-should-know-the-book
http://www.itarchitect.co.uk/
WEB
http://www.sensible.com/ - Steve Krug’s usability stuff.
...
Software Architect →
VizEdu » Blog Archive » 7 Ways To Get Users To... →
WatchInnovation as a Learning Process on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
How progress happens: the down and dirty truths... →
Necessary for any kind of progress or revolution:
TAKING the RISK
having the POWER
smooting the resistence change could bring.
IT professionals
http://getsatisfaction.com/about
Web design:
https://www.spotify.com/en/products/premium/order/account/
Wealth →
Throwing money around. To have a free flow of money. To use them freely and easily… that’s a nice idea of usage of money, isn’t it?! That’s what money is for… to get and spend… to allow flowing… to receive and give… to be the channel.
Resources are not only unlimited but are increasing proportionate to the desire that is exuding.
C++ compiler/make error - Undefined symbols, ld...
c.readFile(indexWordsFilename); // error!
Undefined symbols: “Concordance::readFile(char*)”, referenced from: _main in concordanceMain.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [dist/Debug/GNU-MacOSX/cs225concordance] Error 1 make[1]: *** [.build-conf] Error 2 make: *** [.build-impl] Error 2
basically showed up because in the class definition file...
Satir Change Model →
an important consideration when implementing change - the influence is has on the whole system. so be mindful when doing it… more to come…
Inspired by another great Scott Berkun’s presentation - Lessons Learned from the Browser Wars
Quote from the presentation (at ca. 0:42:00): “Even if you’re doing something smart, e.g. improvement of working, something for...
March 2009
14 posts
“There is an important relationship between failure and success.”
– “Failures in Group Work: How We Can Learn from Our Mistakes” by Dr. Robert K. Conyne
Go Ape! High Wire Forest Adventure - Go Ape!... →
Website with nice and unusual gitfs for any occassion or to just have fun yourself.
Life starts to be fun when you allow yourself...
Not really much more to add on top of the title.
You learn enormously by making mistakes. That’s a fact too easiy to forget when pursuing pure success.
So learning to allow yourself to be ok with making mistakes and failing is a key to live life to the fullest. Worry less, take risks, be optimistic about everything you do.
Then success comes naturally. You don’t strive or struggle...
“the large percentage of explorations is spent mostly doing NOT interesting stuff”
– Scott Berkun at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amt3ag2BaKc
Scott Berkun - author of "Myths of Innovation" →
Extremely up-beat, good at concrete examples, great to watch and listen to Scott.
Learn video story-telling and host it on blip.tv →
A place for presentation slides... →
Net is a place for everything now, isn’t it?!
Here you can actually find slides from the videos presented by eCommConf - the videos themselves failed to show their content. I mean the videos from fora.tv posted below this link, i.e. Sonic Media
Sonic Media - blow out a virtual candle by blowing... →
and much much more exciting stuff you can do with a computer and standard user devices e.g. joystick to manipulate sound and create music.
and especially on iPhone - make a harmonica of your iPhone (just blow to the micro) - amazing!
More about Sonic Media: http://www.smule.com/
Reframe toothbrush's embodiment, what if a... →
and other Design Synthesis practices.
1. Reframing
and
2. using abduction in creating Design Ideas.
Introducing virtual world ON TOP of real world - ... →
e.g. picking up a book in a bookstore and getting its review being displayed on top of the book. handy!
Hacking knowledge comes useful →