December 2009
6 posts
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Charting the mobile future
The Mobile Internet Report
Among other tasty morsels:
“Reduced usage friction via better processing power + improved user interfaces + smaller form facter + lower prices + expanded services = 10x more devices”
“The high-level riddle is: will the next stage of mobile internet develop in a fragmented / open way (a la desktop internet) or will it develop with leading / closed...
FDR Was A Prototyper
The National Archives has a pretty neat drawing on their site from FDR. He drew the above in pencil on a sheet of legal paper on April 12, 1937. It’s a prototype.
I didn’t understand the importance of having a prototype in hand for many years, but my pal Diego made me take stock in it when I began reading his blog five years ago. Growing up in the media business as well as the...
This Is Flow State
Is greatness an end state? Perhaps for some, but I’m in the camp that believes it happens during the act: a flow state, an experience of detachment that — regardless of domain — seems to always sound the same. There’s a thread here:
Justin Wong, video game champion
“My hands just do the thinking. It does…the correct decisions. I really don’t think about...
