“What separates the New Rich (NR), characterized by options, from the Deferrers (D), those who save it all for the end only to find that life has passed them by?
D: To work for yourself NR: To have others work for you
D: To work when you want to NR: To prevent work for work’s sake, and to do the minimum necessary for maximum effect
D: To retire early or young NR: To distribute recovery periods and adventures (mini-retirements) throughout life on a regular basis and recognize that inactivity is not the goal. Doing that which excites you is.”
The Open Web Education Alliance is the W3C’s attempt to “help enhance and standardize the architecture of the World Wide Web by facilitating the highest quality standards and best practice based education for future generations of Web professionals”. More from the charter:”Because of significantly differing curricula and standards of quality between educational facilities, students are often not adequately prepared to immediately enter the Web development profession, and prospective employers do not have sufficient information to judge applicants’ knowledge and skills. … the wide scope of the profession, ranging from presentational design, to user interface design, to client-side and server-side programming, makes comprehensive education more difficult.”
It seems like the entire world has been affected by the death of Sky Saxon , singer and bass player for The Seed’s on June 25th. Here are a couple of videos of The Seeds lip-synching their way through “Pushin’ Too Hard”.
On the Monday night edition of Shebang (why do they show Sky playing bass during the guitar solo instead of showing the guitarist and his Casino?)
The “green” behind one spiral and the “blue” behind the other are exactly the same color. Interested in more? Here’s a talk by Al Seckel at TED on our mis-wired brains.
This video is an excerpt of a chapter in the life of Thomas Arndt, an entrepreneur who risked his life savings to create a healthy children’s drink that comes in a bottle that doubles as a toy. After more than two years of people telling him that bottles are round for a reason, Y Water becomes reality.
The following paraphrasing of copy was a part of the lead paragraph on a real estate-related blog post this morning. Needless to say, it caught my eye… and put a very grumpy spin to my Friday morning.
Are you a new business in need of a logo, or are you a company that needs to update your brand logo? Well, you can hire a fancy pants graphics designer, who will take a month or so to give you something you’re not crazy about (and bill you a handsome fee)…. or try Logotournament.
So how do you respond to this kind of service? Would you throw your name into the tournament and give it shot? If not, why not? Like me, do you have a sense that the quality of this work is “a good enough value” in the minds of a LOT of people? If so, how do you compete against it? And on a related note, what are your thoughts in general to “off-shoring” design and programming?
