I still wonder if the ultimate goal of Apple is to bring iOS and OS X together somehow.
I do wish @slack’s formatting just used @gruber’s Markdown as a starting point.
Twitter is far from perfect but the it’s gradually getting there. It is improving.
Spoiled for Choice
There are too many easy choices.
I've noticed that retail stores and their vast volume of products seem to be on the rise. Every shopping trip turns into a "who buys all this?" while looking at the mountains of stock available. This isn't just about the products we can easily buy though. It seems now that we're even spoiled for choice in the experiences that we can have in life.
On Sunday I read a story about a silent fireworks display that was intended for babies and toddlers. After the show was finished parents complained that the fireworks were too loud. Hardly surprising given that fireworks by nature are loud.
The bugbear for me isn't the flawed logic of silent fireworks show, it's the availability of choice. We tend to do these things simply because we have the choice too. I'm sure most of us would consider taking our youngest children to a fireworks display but is there any benefit other than the fact that you can?
We're spoiled for choice and the element of resistance in that choice is being eroded away. Just because the decision to do something is easy, it doesn't mean that we should.
Some Goodies from NB
A little present from Nicholas Bate in the post last week. Just getting round to looking at them now.
Thanks Nicholas!
So I gave the first few episodes of Sons of Anarchy a go. Good programme but I can’t see me watching every episode.
Pretty hard to get psyched about something if the founder isn’t using it.
I had great intentions of going back to using @appdotnet for a while there but it still feels like a ghost town.
I wanted to make a product and sell it directly to people who’d care about its quality. There’s an incredible connection possible when you align your financial motivations with the service of your users. It’s an entirely different category of work than if you’re simply trying to capture eyeballs and sell their attention, privacy, and dignity in bulk to the highest bidder.
I’m going to pull out another trite saying here: It feels like honest work. Simple, honest work. I make a good product, you pay me good money for it. We don’t even need big words like monetization strategy to describe that transaction because it is so plain and simple even my three year-old son can understand it.
— RECONSIDER by David Heinemeier Hansson
A nice reminder that honest work and a good product can be a way to succeed.
Finding Nemo was one of Ethan's favourites, perhaps this one will be one of Drew's favourites. Looking forward to it.