Things I Like
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But these sorts of problems only seem to reveal themselves in large, responsive projects with multiple developers, designers and share holders all tugging in different directions, all trying to make the project their thing instead of our thing.
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It sucks sometimes, but most of the things we invest our time or money in, if we don’t own them, are things we are lucky to have while they last. If they disappear, someone who does own them will certainly feel it a lot more acutely than we ever will.
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Instead of asking ‘How can I make these patterns (mega-menus, lightboxes, complex data tables) work when the screen size shrinks?’, you need to ask ‘What’s the problem they’re supposed to be solving, and how would I design a solution for the small screen to start with?’
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So, let’s take a breath. And let’s spend a bit more time making well-formed thoughts before speaking our mind. We’re all doing our best out here.
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Pretty much everyone has insurance, it explained, and the French get better primary care and more choice of doctors than we do. It also turns out, as has been much commented on, that despite all this great treatment, the French spend far less on healthcare than Americans.
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When you hire, look for skill fit, but don’t make it your primary evaluation criteria. Look for passion, curiosity, personality fit, selflessness, openness, confidence, communication skills, emotional intelligence, and intrinsic motivation. These things can’t be taught, but skills can.
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Because it helps clarify my thoughts. It forces me to take a jumbled mess of half-formed ideas and try to make something coherent out of it.
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There are many things I could pull out of this piece, because I think it is so fantastic, so read it! But here is one quote:
Remote working encourages habits of communication and collaboration that can make a team objectively better: redundant communication and a naturally occurring record of conversation enable team members to better understand each other and work productively towards common ends.
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I’ve spent a lot more on music in the last year than I ever did on Rdio but the result is a collection I adore because I listened to every album dozens of times. Just like I used to.
This is how I listen to music as well. I buy entire albums and listen over and over and over again.
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The discovery of new things is a lot of fun, but I’m feeling the need for fewer options, fewer distractions. It’s time to put less emphasis on discovery and more on appreciation and application.
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There are more ways to scale than growth. There are more ways to deepen our impact than just reaching more people.
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Garann means on how to make a better workplace.
So I wanted my first thought of the year to be a small, simple idea: Treat your colleagues as though they know everything you do.
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Jason Santa Maria with some thought provoking questions about how we discuss and critique web sites.
And perhaps that’s the key: maybe this needs to come from the outside, from people who can step back, see a larger picture of web design, and understand how it fits into everything else.
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Because writing—that first leap into taking your idea and making it a Thing People Read—isn't really about wording. It's about thinking. And if you can tell the difference between an article that knows what it's about and one that exists purely to sell ad space, then you're pretty good at that already.
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Because while our relationship with so-called traditional cameras is fading, there’s never been a more interesting and, indeed, complicated, time to be involved with the photograph.