Khurt Williams

kung fu grippe: Entitled to Care

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:36:55 -0500

Marco.org - News flash
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Straw man, Marco.

It’s not a question of entitlement. It’s a question of clear vision about the inevitability of painful, weird change, and whether we can each find the courage to face it without folding.

If anyone’s acting “entitled” right now, it’s the many…

Generic Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:45:27 -0500

Generic Academy Award Winning Movie Trailer

What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:47:42 -0500

What do people who were once paid to be creative for a living do when they’re laid off?

"So long as a product can execute code and is hosted locally with outward access to the Internet, you..."

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:46:11 -0500

“So long as a product can execute code and is hosted locally with outward access to the Internet, you are at risk. Period.”

- Windows Defenses Rendered Useless – Again by Matt Hartley

"Why do you need to feel like something in order to do the work? They call it work because it’s..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:41:11 -0500

“Why do you need to feel like something in order to do the work? They call it work because it’s difficult, not because it’s something you need to feel like.”

- Seth’s Blog: I don’t feel like it

"The only company that can take a bite of the iPod is the same company that makes the iPod? It seems..."

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:35:36 -0500

“The only company that can take a bite of the iPod is the same company that makes the iPod? It seems almost impossible now to imagine the iPod being beaten; there are just too many of the things, people are too used to them and the ecosystem strongly favors the device.”

- Worrying about the iPad Imitators? Don’t - AppleMatters

"And frightened people will resist any help you can give them, and they will blame you for the stress..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:18:06 -0500

“And frightened people will resist any help you can give them, and they will blame you for the stress the change is causing. Scared people like to shoot the messenger. Duck.”

- Seth’s Blog: Frightened, clueless or uninformed?

SSRP Sussex Safer Roads Partnership - Embrace Life - (2010) :90...

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:48:22 -0500

SSRP Sussex Safer Roads Partnership - Embrace Life - (2010) :90 (UK)

"The darndest thing happened in the last five days and I was fortunate to be privy to it. Apple has..."

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:24:51 -0500

“

The darndest thing happened in the last five days and I was fortunate to be privy to it. Apple has gotten people excited about computing.

But this time, it’s not nerds or geeks and certainly not IT industry analysts. It’s everyone else.

”

- northtemple - On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing

"The bulk of humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing..."

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:35:37 -0500

“The bulk of humanity doesn’t want a computing experience it can tinker with; it wants a computing experience that works.”

- Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

"People talk about Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field, and I don’t disagree that the..."

Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:51:38 -0500

“People talk about Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field, and I don’t disagree that the man has a quasi-hypnotic ability to convince. There’s another reality distortion field at work, though, and everyone that makes a living from the tech industry is within its tractor-beam. That RDF tells us that computers are awesome, they work great and only those too stupid to live can’t work them.”

- Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock

"Does anybody seriously believe that Android, Nokia, Samsung, Palm, BlackBerry and a dozen others..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:04:43 -0500

“Does anybody seriously believe that Android, Nokia, Samsung, Palm, BlackBerry and a dozen others would since have produced the product line they have without the 100,000 volt taser shot up the jacksie that the iPhone delivered to the entire market?”

- iPad About « The New Adventures of Stephen Fry

"Car enthusiasts (and genuine experts like race car drivers) still drive cars with manual..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:26:14 -0500

“Car enthusiasts (and genuine experts like race car drivers) still drive cars with manual transmissions. They offer more control; they’re more efficient. But the vast majority of cars sold today are automatics. So too it’ll be with computers. Eventually, the vast majority will be like the iPad in terms of the degree to which the underlying computer is abstracted away. Manual computers, like the Mac and Windows PCs, will slowly shift from the standard to the niche, something of interest only to experts and enthusiasts and developers.”

- Daring Fireball: Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad

"Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:10:42 -0500

“Given a difficult technology policy problem, lawyers will tend to seek technology solutions and technologists will tend to seek legal solutions. (Paul Ohm calls this “Felten’s Third Law”.) It’s easy to reject non-solutions in your own area because you have the knowledge to recognize why they will fail; but there must be a solution lurking somewhere in the unexplored wilderness of the other area.”

- A Free Internet, If We Can Keep It | Freedom to Tinker

"It may come as a shock to us geeks, but many people can’t handle multiple choices on a computing..."

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:25:54 -0500

“It may come as a shock to us geeks, but many people can’t handle multiple choices on a computing device. They learn the one way to do something and they always do it that way.”

- minimalmac on why “missing features” in the iPad are a good thing.

"When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first..."

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:51:58 -0500

“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.”

- Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World – GigaOM

"InfoSec is a zero-sum game; it’s about staving off the inevitable and trying to ensure we can deal..."

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:09:32 -0500

“InfoSec is a zero-sum game; it’s about staving off the inevitable and trying to ensure we can deal with the residual impact in the face of being “survivable” versus being “secure.””

- Cloud: Security Doesn’t Matter (Or, In Cloud, Nobody Can Hear You Scream) | Rational Survivability

"There are fifty people applying for a job. Forty nine have great credentials and beautifully..."

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:00:31 -0500

“There are fifty people applying for a job. Forty nine have great credentials and beautifully standard layouts on their resumes. One resume was hand delivered to the CEO by his best friend, together with a glowing recommendation about a project the applicant did for the friend’s non-profit. Who gets the interview?”

- Seth’s Blog: The ubiquity of competition was just what I needed to make my point about referrals being the key to getting the next job/gig.

"Planning a career at a career fair is a little like looking for a soulmate at a singles’ bar"

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:47:18 -0500

“Planning a career at a career fair is a little like looking for a soulmate at a singles’ bar”

- Seth’s Blog: Career fairs…

"The skeptic will always find a reason, even if it’s one the rest of us don’t think is a..."

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:58:49 -0500

“The skeptic will always find a reason, even if it’s one the rest of us don’t think is a good one. Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission—which is emotional connection.”

- Seth’s Blog: Too much data leads to not enough belief