The Creativity Bubble
It’s never been easier to find better system for solving our problems. What we should be doing is finding better problems to solve. Anything requiring intense thought and risk is naturally avoided for easy answers, safe bets, and “clever” strategies. “Clever” doesn’t change things. It’s a pat
Seth Godin to the World: You’re Still Not Blogging Daily?!
Seth Godin has moved to Wordpress, which has prompted him once again to tell us about the importance of blogging daily on his podcast [https://art19.com/shows/akimbo/episodes/3313d002-186c-46f9-9afa-646889bd57ef]. > “I’m encouraging each one of you to have (a blog). Not to have
My Home Screen
Last week I was on vacation when the chance to write something for Club MacStories [https://club.macstories.net/] popped up. Needless to say, I left my wife and son at the beach and found a suitable office to write 1400 words about the most hallowed ground for any geek,
How to Not Die in the Next 10 Years
Photography is saving lives, speed still matters, and the most pathetic job. It’s all in this week’s newsletter [https://mailchi.mp/cjchilvers/how-to-not-die-in-the-next-10-years].
Speed Still Matters
At today’s An Event Apart Seattle 2018 [https://aneventapart.com/event/seattle-2018], Aaron Gustafson presented on why website performance is still so important. From attendee Jake Kronika [https://twitter.com/jkronika/status/981220371880906754]: > A 1s delay in page load can reduce conversions by 7%. Users are more
Any Imbecile
“Photography is a marvelous discovery, a science that has attracted the greatest intellects, and art that excites the most astute minds—and one that can be practiced by any imbecile.” — Nadar (1910) via Andy Adams [https://twitter.com/PhotoHistorian/status/976454128271437825]
Questions
“I would rather have questions I can’t answer than answers I can’t question.” — Max Tegmark [(https://overcast.fm/+Ic2hP3AZs/42:01]
Van Halen Destroys the 7th Floor of the Sheraton Inn
The VHND just posted [http://www.vhnd.com/2018/03/07/van_halen_sheraton_inn/] an account of one of rock's most infamous moments of pure destruction. On my "book tour" for The Van Halen Encyclopedia [https://www.cjchilvers.com/the-van-halen-encyclopedia] in 1999
