Empathy
Understanding that people don’t buy things because of their demographics — nobody buys something because they’re a 25-30 year old white male with a college degree — but rather, because they go about living their life and some situation arises in which they need to solve a problem… and so they “hire” a product to do the job. This is a big “ah ha” to many folks when they first hear it; but when you really boil it down, the true power of this is in giving people in business a frame with which to exercise empathy. In fact, both Akio Morita of Sony and Steve Jobs were famous for never commissioning market research — instead, they’d just walk around the world watching what people did. They’d put themselves in the shoes of their customers.
Depleting your iPhone’s battery midday is one measure of productivity, I guess. (Taken with instagram)
The World Aeropress Championship
The AeroPress recipe (really) at the World AeroPress Championship (yes, really) that took home the Gold AeroPress (these are all real things) this year is remarkably simple.
The World Aeropress Championship Blog:
Charlene’s Method
- wet the filter thoroughly
- put it on the Aeropress filter
- 18.30 grams of coffee, grind coarsely
- use the normal, non-inverted method
- 85°C, 250 grams water
- about 40 grams of blooming water ( +/- 30 sec)
- then poor the rest of the water and press, not pressing all the way
- then serve. simple!
Physicians are specifically trained to look for problems. The purpose of diagnosis is to identify what is wrong with a patient’s health. As a consequence, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about what is ill, incorrect, out of order, defective. Our worldview can shift so that we overlook what is healthy, robust, flourishing, hopeful.
Ukrainian institute
Adler 9009 Lens, Kodot XGrizzled Film, No Flash, Taken with HipstamaticThat head-tilt thing when you spot something puzzling? That thing that’s so universal that both humans and dogs do it? I love that.
Church ladder
Transmetropolitan: Joss Whedon, Warren Ellis, and Patrick Stewart. Surely I’m not the only one hoping for this.
In an anecdote told by Warren Ellis, Stewart claims that while waiting to be knighted he started thinking “What would Spider do?” and came to the conclusion he would headbutt Prince Charles. Prince Charles did say something to Stewart, but he was unable to remember what it was as he was using all his willpower to not headbutt the guy.
(Story here.)
Password size does matter
Character-for-character, password length is more important for security than complexity. Requiring complexity but allowing passwords to remain short makes passwords more vulnerable to attack than simply requiring easier-to-remember, longer passwords.
For everyone using six- to nine-character passwords with “complexity,” I appreciate it. I get paid to break in to systems for a living, and you make my job easier.
Instapaper 4.2 now available in the App Store
instapaper.comThis is a significant update with many fixes and new features, including a new iBooks-Style Pagination option.
