“a lot of the time in software it is easy to get lost in the weeds solving hard technical problems that are due to complexity we’ve imposed on ourselves due to some well meaning design decision instead of actually solving customer problems.” — Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - Lessons from Google Wave and REST vs. SOAP: Fighting Complexity of our own Choosing (via Instapaper)
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“In these maps, activity on the Foursquare network is aggregated onto a grid of ‘walkable’ cells (each one 400×400 meters in size) represented by dots. The size of each dot corresponds to the level of activity in that cell. By this process we can see social centers emerge in each city”
There is strong shadow where there is much light
It’s me, at my new job, in green, looking oddly scared.
My iMac has been overshadowed by a new office arrival
“‘Imagine you’re with 400 of your best friends,’ he said, almost convincing me that I had 400 best friends. ‘You go to Richmond Park International. At 11 o’clock on Thursday you get on board the SkyCat200. There are hundreds of staterooms on it and you dinner dance your way across the Atlantic. At two o’clock on Friday afternoon you’re getting off at the East River in New York. You’ve travelled 3,000 miles overnight and there’s no jet lag.’” — Airships: a second age - Telegraph (via Instapaper)