February 2010
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“May the roof above us never fall in, and may the friends gathered below never fall out.”
—Irish proverb
Microsoft’s Creative Destruction →
nytimes.com
By Dick Brass, former Vice President at Microsoft, 1997-2004.
“Internal competition is common at great companies. It can be wisely encouraged to force ideas to compete. The problem comes when the competition becomes uncontrolled and destructive. At Microsoft, it has created a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence. It’s not an accident that almost all the executives in charge of Microsoft’s music, e-books, phone, online, search and tablet efforts over the past decade have left.
As a result, while the company has had a truly amazing past and an enviably prosperous present, unless it regains its creative spark, it’s an open question whether it has much of a future.”
Monzy: kill-9 →
catonmat.net
So I pull out my keyboard and I pull out my glock,
And I dismount your girl and I mount /proc
And I’ve got your fuckin pid and the bottom line
Is that you best not front or else it’s KILL DASH NINE.
KILL DASH NINE,
No more CPU time.
I run KILL DASH NINE,
And your process is mine.
I run KILL DASH NINE,
‘Cause it’s MY time to shine
So don’t step outta line or else it’s
KILL DASH NINE!
“From broken ground
a conversation grew
helmets and suits
pencils and screws
the beating of mass
into matter” —
a conversation grew
helmets and suits
pencils and screws
the beating of mass
into matter” —
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Dan Hill, City of Sound
It’s a device for airplanes, taxis, public transport, park benches, coffeeshops, pubs, bars, bistros, co-working spaces, breakouts, studios, receptions, meeting rooms, plaza and piazza, public libraries, beaches and all manner of transient spaces, civic spaces.
It’s a device for cities.
” —For the life between buildings - some notes on the iPadDan Hill, City of Sound
Show up early →
zeldman.com
Jeffrey Zeldman on showing up early:
If you plan to arrive early, then you are covered when circumstances beyond your control conspire to make you late. …. This is simple and obvious but many otherwise brilliant professionals clearly don’t think about it. The result is that they often arrive late. It’s never their fault, and yet it’s always the same people who are late.
And:
Love means never having to say you’re sorry, but client services means apologizing every five minutes. Give yourself one less thing to be sorry for. Take some free advice. Show up often, and show up early.
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