May 2012
Design Blogs →
fontfont.com
Hey, Design Info is not on this list. But, then again, neither is Design Observer!
Learn All The Keyboard Shortcuts With This Cheat Sheet →
designtaxi.com
I think this is just for the OS? Good for beginner though.
Jonathan Ive interview: Apple’s design genius is British to the core →
telegraph.co.uk
Officially, Sir Jony.
Don't Dismiss Your Gen X Talent →
blogs.hbr.org
“… their career progress has been threatened by leapfrogging Millennials and blocked by Boomers, who are postponing retirement to bulk up recession-ravaged 401(k)s. They had been promised the keys to the kingdom but are now in danger of turning into the Prince Charles of the American workforce: perpetual heirs apparent.”
Sylvia Ann Hewlett via HBR
How 100 iPads saved Greece $140 billion →
tech.fortune.cnn.com
Brilliant use of the technology.
Matthew Butterick: Reversing the Tide of Declining Expectations →
typotalks.com
Must see talk at Typo Berlin by Butterick.
Great Businesses Don’t Start With a Plan →
blogs.hbr.org
“You want to start a business. So you need a plan, right? No. Not really.
As part of the research for a book I’m co-authoring — Heart, Smarts, Guts, and Luck, due out in August from HBR Press — my colleagues and I interviewed and surveyed hundreds of successful entrepreneurs around the globe to better understand what it takes to be an entrepreneur and build a really great business. One of our most striking findings was that of the entrepreneurs we surveyed who had a successful exit (that is, an IPO or sale to another firm), about 70% did NOT start with a business plan.
Instead, their business journeys originated in a different place, a place we call the Heart. They were conceived not with a document but with a feeling and doing for an authentic vision. Clarity of purpose and passion ruled the day with less time spent writing about an idea and more time spent just doing it.”
Anthony Tjan - Harvard Business Review
“… humanity majors make the best project managers, the best product managers, and, ultimately, the most visionary technology leaders. The reason is simple. Technologists and engineers focus on features and too often get wrapped up in elements that may be cool for geeks but are useless for most people. In contrast, humanities majors can more easily focus on people and how they interact with technology.”
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Vivek Wadhwa
“The problem with deep specialization is that specialists tend to get stuck in their own points of view. They’ve been taught to focus so narrowly that they can’t look at a problem from different angles. And in the modern workscape we desperately need people with the ability to see big picture solutions. That’s where being a polymath has certain advantages.”
—In Defense of Polymaths - Kyle Wiens - Harvard Business Review
The Facebook Offering: How It Compares →
nytimes.com
Nice NYTimes.com info graphic.
“We know that the global impact of injury in road traffic crashes is more than HIV, T.B., malaria combined. Did you know that? No one knows that. And yet that’s the case.”
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Dr. Rick Coughlin, University of California, San Francisco
How to Better Treat Trauma Injuries in the Developing World
PBS Newshour
Next Avenue →
nextavenue.org
A new web site for over 50s from PBS.
