Jason Fried: Why You Can’t Work At Work

Thursday, March 11, 2010 | 20:00

Jason Fried, Co-Founder of wildly successful 37 Signals discusses “Why You Can’t Work At Work”… or why I can’t work at work. Here’s my favorite tidbit…

… and managers are the biggest problem, because their whole world is built around interruption. That’s what they do. Management means interrupting. ”Hey, what’s going on?” ”How’s this going?” ”Let me call a meeting, because that’s what I do all day. I call meetings.”

Check out 37Signals’ new book REWORK and look out for a review in the next few weeks.

Source: Big Think

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Gruber’s iPad Thoughts

Wednesday, January 27, 2010 | 22:17

Today was a huge day for Apple fanboys. I am convinced there is no bigger Mac addict than the Daring Fireball himself, John Gruber. MacGruber (harhar) has seen, touched, and fondled “the tablet” and I think he may be spot on on one observation.

People are complaining about the wide bezel around the display, but without that, where would your thumbs go? You don’t want your thumb that’s holding the device to cover on-screen content or register as a touch. Trust me, it’s just right.

If you are a Motorola Droid owner you know exactly what Gruber is talking about. False positives all day, every day.

Source: ABoyAndHisComputer.com

Apple product releases are generally polarizing and controversial. The peanut gallery can argue about the ridiculousness of the iPad’s name all they want, but it seems many missed an important detail. As an individual who respects Apple as a marketing machine, and as an Apple shareholder (full disclosure much?), of particular note is the Apple A4. Apple is back in the semi-conductor game and not only did they spit out a chip, it looks like they spit out a DAMN GOOD CHIP. Gruber may have said it best…

Apple doesn’t talk much about the technical details of the iPhone. They never talk about CPU speed or the name of the chip being used. They don’t tell you how much RAM is in there. Part of their vision for moving computers from technical culture to popular culture is about getting away from defining these things by their technical specs. So the prominent talk about A4 is telling. This is something they want us to notice… They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick ass.

I may be considering a maxipad or a medianpad with wings (32gb + 3g) if I don’t convince myself it’s actually an iMac i want. … but what I’m most considering is the implications of AAPL at $300/share.

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