October 2010
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“Collins suggests four basic practices for creating a culture where...”
– More Info: Collins’s website: jimcollins.com (via Instapaper)
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How it's done.
For many years, new employees were given a copy of the famous Nordstrom’s Employee Handbook – a single 5-by-8-inch (130 × 200 mm) gray card containing 75 words:
Welcome to Nordstrom
We’re glad to have you with our Company. Our number one goal is to provide outstanding customer service. Set both your personal and professional goals high. We have great confidence in your ability...
Cool things that just happened:
There’s a TTV workshop going on next door to the office.
One of the students was wandering the halls using an iPhone with her TTV setup and let me try it.
After I tried it, she asked me if I’d seen the macro lenses you can attach to the back of the iPhone and showed me the magnetic ring she had attached to the back of her iPhone 4 to use it.
I wanted to be all like “OMG I...
“For me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very...”
– Steve Jobs’ best quotes - Quora
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Quora: What is Amazon's approach to product...
There is an approach called “working backwards” that is widely used at Amazon. We try to work backwards from the customer, rather than starting with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers onto it. While working backwards can be applied to any specific product decision, using this approach is especially important when developing new products or features.
For new...
“Even when you look at software, the best designers like Bill Atkinson, Andy...”
– John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript | Cult of Mac (via Instapaper)
WatchAt Pow Pow Pow! tonight.
He’ll keep this up for half an hour, sweat dripping down onto the floor, until the pen hanging down on the paper has drawn somethin crazy.
“— Eighty-six percent of all prestige or luxury makes of motor vehicles are...”
– Michelle Singletary - To truly become rich, you need to stop acting like it (via rafer)
“One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the...”
– Flying the SR-71 Blackbird (via davemorin)
“For spreadsheets we sometimes use Google in place of web-based databases to track sales pipelines, recruiting pipelines, investor pipelines, etc.
But for getting real work done, Excel is for adults, and Google Spreadsheets is for kids.
Excel’s pivot tables, the breadth of formulas, the quick, extensible modeling…Excel is Microsoft’s finest hour, and my belief is that their haters don’t...
RED ALERT! It is almost Halloween
strle:
If you haven’t figured out your costume yet, and you want inspiration and/or craft help, I am TOTALLY your girl.
I want help! I need an idea for someone awesome but not super time consuming!
Do you like Mark Zuckerberg (and Facebook) More or...
House Phone →
heyitsnoah:
I keep telling people about how strange it feels to have a land line. Like millions of unhappy AT&T customers I now have to pay an extra $25 a month because my iPhone is so inconsistent in my apartment that I was about ready to lose my mind.
Anyway, I’ve been amazed at what a profound effect on my psyche a couple cordless phones and a Vonage box have had. Mainly,...
Just found out newer hearing aids have Bluetooth.
Not gonna lie, really looking forward to getting old now. Bionic ears!! Who wouldn’t want that?
Art Skool Damage →
madmargaret:
Easily my new favorite blog.
Love it. Followed.
You guys are awesome
So glad I did this.
Thanks to everyone who took a minute to tell me about yourselves — so many cool people!! I just went through all your sites and discovered a bunch of new Tumblrs I needed to follow.
Nothing To Install launched →
marco:
The guys from Stack Exchange (if you’re reading this, you probably know their Stack Overflow site) just launched Nothing to Install, a Q&A site for web apps.1
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What an excellent idea + superb name!