Excellent demoing tips from Christopher
Most product demos are disastrous. I’ve gone through more trainwrecks than I would care to have, and thought I’d share some of my scars and random learnings on the topic.
- Beware the projector. These things are the devil. You have three challenges here: a) severely limited resolution b) severely…
We’re hiring over at Boundless Learning. Adam cooked up an awesome company page for us. Know someone high-tech and passionate about fixing education? I’d love to talk!
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This is a fantastic infographic explaining how bad carbs can be for you. I’ve tried to explain this to many people in person, but a flowchart makes it so much easier. Thanks to Massive Health for designing it.
I wish someone had told me this when I was 18 years old.
Rafer sez:
Go sutha, go.
Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
Someone needs a sanity check.
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From TurningArt to StayingArt, or How I Bought My First Original Piece of Art.
I’m a huge fan of TurningArt, which is often described as “Netflix for Art”. It’s allowed me to sample all sorts of different art without ever committing to it. (And for a material-phobic minimalist, it’s a slam dunk; own without owning!)
Lately, I’ve been sporting a print-likeness of Christian Bale / Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, one of my favorite movies (don’t read *too* much into it…)
Over a bottle of wine at the Boundless office, good friend Matt Hodgson (CTO TurningArt) was explaining the broader vision: connecting art-novices with great pieces of art. For the tepid, that starts as prints, and for those that find a piece that speaks to them: an original.
Maybe it was the wine, or maybe it was Matt’s great story telling, but I took the leap and upgraded from print to the original “Psycho American” by Hector Sandoval Jr.
And while I’m plugging his service, what made it an easy decision is how TurningArt credits your cumulative monthly subscription costs against original artwork you buy. How cool is that?
Now I need to find a new wall to continue my art rotation, until another piece “sticky” enough comes along!
Here’s a video recap of 2011 in Wistia Land. This was a surprise end-of-the-year present from super friends Chris Lavigne and Dan Mills.
Wistia kills it. Great/fun 2011 recap video from them. Hope you guys have a great 2012!
Probably not the first to have this idea, but, “what if….”
What if there was an Apache mod that let all web-devs target WebKit with HTML/CSS and on the fly translated the CSS to support whatever quirks the requesting browser/User-Agent might have.
I’d pay handsomely to target 1 desktop browser, 1 mobile browser, etc. Let some crazy auto-updating plugin handle the rest, and I’d pay a ridiculous monthly amount for it.
If you build this, please email me!
Seriously though. I love love love github, and would kill kill kill for this. Anyone done this?
My brother & I decided to give exclusively “singulatarian” gifts this holiday. What’s that mean? Digital goods & services. What else could future meta-humans want/use?
A sampling:
Not digital, but closer to meta-human:
It’s all about giving stuff without people actually needing to have… stuff.
Happy minimalist/singulatarian holidays!