May 2012
23 posts
See also: the infographic, wherein numbers are crunched.
“One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got to start with...”
– Steve Jobs
Quarterly Co. →
Quarterly continues down the path that services like Letterly and TinyLetter championed: consume less information, surrounded by less noise, delivered in less distracting ways by people with more meaningful things to say.
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Launch.scpt
I posted a simple AppleScript for launching menu bar items to GitHub. This is how I maintain an obsessive degree of control over the order of my menu bar items, since you can’t drag to reorder the third-party ones, and controlling the launch order is impossible from the Accounts → Login Items preference pane.
It also significantly decreases my boot time when I just want to get the computer...
“If Randall Stephenson is kept up at night by iMessage, he is a very shallow...”
– Dustin Curtis: iMessage keeps AT&T CEO awake at night
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art...”
– Elie Wiesel
Scratching
Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.
Scratching is what you do when you can’t wait for the thunderbolt to hit you. As Freud said, “When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.” How is that different from a movie producer calling up a gifted writer and prod ding him to suggest a plot line of “two men and a bear”? If you go...
