November 2011
24 posts
Incoming: A Native Gmail iPhone App. Finally.
parislemon:
Ever since I bought the original iPhone in 2007, there’s been one app above all others that I’ve been sorely missing: Gmail. Of course, back then, there were no native third-party apps. But a year later, when those came, Gmail was still nowhere to be found.
At first, the talk was that Apple wasn’t going to allow another mail app on their device. Then it was that Google was simply...
October 2011
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“Our capacity to reinterpret our past decisions as having worked out brilliantly...”
– Before Succeeding, You Have to Fully Confront Failure. But How?
“Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are...”
– Five Manifestos for Modern Life - The Cult of Done Manifesto
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Change Your Thoughts and You'll Change Your World
There is a story about a man who was working on an oil platform in the North Sea. He woke up one night from a loud explosion, which suddenly set his entire oil platform on fire. In mere moments, he was surrounded by flames. Through the smoke and heat, he barely made his way out of the chaos to the platform’s edge. When he looked down over the edge, all he could see were the dark, cold, foreboding...
constant partial attention: The atomic method of... →
marcopacifico:
The typical person speaks 10 or 12 sentences a minute. The atomic method requires you to create a slide for each sentence. For a five minute talk, that’s 50 slides. Each slide must have either a single word, a single image or a single idea. Make all 50 slides. Force yourself to break each concept…
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