May 2012
4 posts
When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at all.
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple
We’re keenly aware that when we develop and make something and bring it to market that it really does speak to a set of values. And what preoccupies us is that sense of care, and what our products will not speak to is a schedule, what our products will not speak to is trying to respond to some corporate or competitive agenda.
April 2012
13 posts
I like trying to make things work better. In many ways, the end result is unimportant – it’s really just the excuse for the whole experience.
Self-interest is incredibly dull …
Variable
Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
Put Products Before Profits
scale
Do right and fear no man.
Open Source Ecology
Kill Math
Camden Health
March 2012
6 posts
When the quality of form emerges, it goes straight to your heart. It has no need for justification.
Bruce Springsteen’s SXSW 2012 Keynote Speech
Instead of being experts at mainpulating machines, many companies are focused on manipulating people. In most cases, their own customers.
… while people would often struggle to articulate why they like something - as consumers we are incredibly discerning, we sense when there has been great care in the design, and when there is cynicism and greed. It’s one of the things we’ve found really encouraging.
Night Air (Solomun Version) Jamie Woon
February 2012
6 posts
when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
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… the whole point of having values is that sometimes you don’t do the most expedient thing or the most profitable thing or the easy thing. That’s what makes them values, you value them more …
The excessive has eclipsed the essential. And, along the way we forgot a simple truth — the tools through which we live should improve life.
Jaimie’s log
And I Say (feat. Scout LaRue and Will Epstein)...
Untergunther wanted to restart the heart of the world.
January 2012
7 posts
06
There’s nothing above me except responsibility to the work.
In the end, the need for profit can only ever add unnecessary and unwanted side-effects to our medium of communication, whether it’s omnipresent and invisible tracking of everything we read and say, a visual landscape overrun with advertisements, or software that disappears and takes our data with it once we stop paying rent.
December 2011
13 posts
The word for computer programs that thrive through parasitic relationships with their environment is virus. A website engineered to deplete human willpower and create addicts is nothing to be proud of — even if a billion people use it. To make great software, we must honor our users, creating mutual profit. To make great software is to make people’s lives better.
Watch
Reduce the Technology
The Wilcox Sessions
November 2011
6 posts
Rolling Stones Heaven (Thodoris Triantafillou...