The most important thing about education is appetite.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I’d rather be improved by honest criticism than ruined by false praise.
Emotional maturity is demonstrated by how kindly you treat those who mistreat or misunderstand you.
Marko Savic breaks down Apple’s naming conventions. (Via Jim Dalrymple.)
Dustin Curtis:
The Kindle Fire is just an evolution of Amazon’s business.
1995: Click, and it shows up at your door.
2012: Tap and it shows up instantly.
The arrow that goes from A to Z (introduced in 2000) supposedly represented the vast array of products they ship from their store (“everything from A to Z”). Seems like now it could also be for all the types of services and products they offer.
For episode 75 of The B&B Podcast Ben and I announce a new format and schedule to the show. You can listen for the details, but the gist of it is that we’re aiming for a 30-minute show and are moving away from talking about current events each week and will instead be focusing on more “timeless” topics. Of course, this week, the Amazon press event was happening live as we were recording and so naturally we talked about the just-announced Kindles. We also did some follow-up to last week’s discussion of App.net, and I talked about why my 23-inch Apple Cinema Display is about to get replaced by a grey market IPS display from Korea.
If you’ve got a product, service, job, or business you’d like to promote to our live audience and our weekly listeners, please send an email to Ben. With the new show format sponsors will get two mentions: once at the very beginning, and once again at the close. Also, you get a link right here each week when Ben and I link to the episode from our sites.
Ever notice how diverse Yamaha’s product line is?
They make pianos, drums, keyboards, bass guitars, recording gear, headphones, guitar amps, mixing boards, motorcycles, ATVs, generators, outboard motors, snowmobiles, jet skis, and even boats. Equally impressive is that pretty much everything Yamaha makes is absolutely great.
Ever notice how diverse Amazon’s product line is?
They have an online retail store for physical goods, they sell digital goods, they publish books, they make tablets with a customized tablet software, they make e-readers, they have cloud storage, and web services, video streaming, device syncing, and more. And, impressively, pretty much all their products and services are absolutely great as well.
The new Paperwhite Kindle looks to be better than the old model in just about every way. I just ordered the Wi-Fi version.
Last year I bought a Kindle touch, and it was my first Kindle. I love it. But I mostly only use it on weekends and vacations because a good chunk of the book reading I do on a daily basis is at night before going to bed. And so I use my iPad a lot simply because I have to if I want to read in the dark. I’m definitely looking forward to using this new Kindle instead. Not only is the light going to be great, but the new Paperwhite display and the higher DPI makes it an overall more superior device than my current Kindle Touch.
If you’re also ordering a Paperwhite Kindle — or one of the new Kindle Fire HDs — then use these links and I’ll get a small kickback from Amazon. Thanks.
The glance at the new Kindle touch — which which Amazon themselves leaked in their commercial during last night’s game — looks great.
Nice work from the MacStories team.
Love this answer from Aaron Bleyart, one of the members of Team Coco, to what his dream setup would be:
My dream setup is exactly what I have now: A tremendous group of smart, funny, creative, good looking, talented people. I could always use a better lighting kit, a more expensive lens, more sensitive mics, etc, but all the hardware and software in the world is completely useless without a killer team of people to use it.
Harry McCracken:
I’m pretty sure it’s not just journalists who are using iPads as computers. I see people doing it in airplanes. I’ve seen them doing it on the subway. When I’m out and about, strangers run up to ask me about my keyboard. Something’s happening here, and it’s happening quickly — and so I thought I’d update you on my experiences as of the one-year mark.
John Moltz:
Others have noted this, but it certainly is shaping up to be the biggest fall in quite some time.
When I was a kid and I’d talk about the latest and greatest things coming out that we could buy, my dad would always say the same thing — “Save your money.” — and it would drive me bonkers. Dad, don’t you know I make like $1 a week allowance?
That’s a line I think I heard Merlin Mann say once in a podcast.
And the way I see it, there are two sides to Social Me-me-media:
And then there’s the fighting-against-the-potential-time-sink side. What’s a reasonable number of followers for me to have? How many interruptions am I willing or able to allow? How much time do I want to spend here? How much value am I getting? How much value am I giving?
It is oh so easy to get sucked into the first side and never think once about the second. But now that you are thinking about it, why not give yourself permission to unfollow whomever you want without worrying about hurting their feelings. And to check in, link in, post a picture, or update your status less often without the fear that you’ll be forgotten about.
Make social media about you — not your ego.
Continuing on with the subject of doing things differently than most people, here’s Seth Godin regarding how he spends his time:
I guess you make decisions about how you want to spend your time. What you didn’t mention is that I’m America’s worst watcher of television, cause I don’t spend any time doing that, zero. And I’m America’s worst attender of meetings, cause I don’t do any of that, zero. So I know people who do five hours of each every day. So right there I save myself ten hours a day. […]
So I try to sort of strike this balance between doing some things at an insanely quick, prolific rate and doing other things not at all.
The whole interview great; highly recommended reading.