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Stuff I like
These are little snippets from the internet that I've recently enjoyed. I've split my posts about mobile, attention data and other aspects of the future of the web into New Cartographer.
“ You can define tinkering in part in contrast to other activities. Mitch Resnick, for example, talks about how traditional technology-related planning is top-down, linear, structured, abstract, and rules-based, while tinkering is bottom-up, iterative, experimental, concrete, and object-oriented
Tinkering as a way of knowing
Tinkering as a way of knowing
“ A good designer isn’t afraid to throw away a good idea. Your goal as a designer should be to create an integrated whole, not to in corporate all the best features whether or not they work together.
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
How To Launch A Successful Blog In The First 90 Days
although I instinctively distrust something called “the influential marketing blog”
Tribe building tactics
tips and tricks for building effective small groups
“ We should be mapping information that in some ways has been historically un-mappable because it is 1) not valued or is 2) actively seen as threatening or is 3) simply too hard to map using traditional GIS
Anselm Hook
Anselm Hook
“ The more specific a design idea is, the greater its appeal is likely to be. Being nonspecific in an effort to appeal to everyone usually results in reaching no one.
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
What is a Design Attitude and Why Would a Manager Care?
“To summarize Simon’s argument very briefly, humans have a limited cognitive capacity for reasoning when searching for a solution within a problem space. Given the relatively small size of our brain’s working memory, we can only consider a few aspects of any situation and can only analyze them in a few ways. This is also true of computers, although the constraints are less obvious. The problem space that a manager deals with in her mind or in her computer is dependent on the way she represents the situation that she faces. The first step in any problem-solving episode is representing the problem, and to a large extent, that representation has the solution hidden within it (pp. 8-9).”
How Not to Run a Big Music Company: A Tutorial Brought to You by a Big Music Company
Terra Firma knew EMI was badly run when it bought it, but it didn’t really know how badly run it was until it owned it. It figured, for instance, that there was a lot of waste at the company. But it had no idea the U.K. division was spending $1.1 million a year on a London taxi service. And it had literally no idea how much money some of EMI’s executives were making, because EMI wouldn’t disclose that during due diligence.
Coding a Networked Bike
Uncommon projects give a recap of a project they did for Yahoo! including developing for the Nokia N95 using S60 Symbian python.