Things I Like
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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.
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Maybe it was wanting people to stop asking, ‘Where are you from?’ Maybe I wanted to become invisible in that particular way. Or maybe it was my subconscious wishing that I could belong in this beautiful Art Nouveau city with its rhodochrosite government palace and the sometimes-crumbling statuary of its eerie necropolis and the cobbled streets of my neighborhood, San Telmo, festooned with graffiti. The Sunday flea markets, giving way to the tango milongas, which look like a painting of Paris in the twenties. The glittering Teatro Colón, an Italianate splendor of red velvet and stained glass and gold, surrounded by svelte, elegant palm trees. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of a place where people sit elbow-to-elbow late into the night, sawing through hunks of delicious local steak cooked to the Platonic ideal of medium-rare, nothing for seasoning but a perfect flame?
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Really interesting look at the changes to the technology behind the New York Times redesign. I love it when companies share this type of information, so helpful to understand what's happening behind the scenes.
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If there’s one thing I hope we see in the upcoming year it’s this sort of maturity: that we’ll stop celebrating sites simply for being responsive and instead view it as just another (important!) characteristic of a well-built site.
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Elliot Jay Stocks makes some fantastic points about living a quieter life, concentrating on offline things.
As 2013 progressed, I found myself caring less and less about social media, less and less about online debates in the web community, and less and less about the representation of myself online. Partly by accident and partly by design, I became quieter.
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Jay Fanelli on The Pastry Box Project
Spend more time with your spouse, your kids, and your friends. And stop eating lunch at your desk. No one dies wishing they’d put in more time at the office.
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In all likelihood, the independent web will never be able to match the power and reach of the silos. But that won’t stop me (and others) from owning our own words. If nothing else, we can at least demonstrate that the independent path is an option—even if that option requires more effort.