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Allen Pike: “Occasionally we need to write something that must be understood, absorbed, and acted on. […] There is one core approach […], one workhorse of the skimmable document, that is worth mastering: lists.” → Read More

Craig Mod: “I love fast software. That is, software speedy both in function and interface. […] To me, speedy software is the difference between an application smoothly integrating into your life, and one called upon with great reluctance. […] Ultimately, to be fast is to be light.” → Read More

Random highlights taken from the book “It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work” by Basecamp. → Read More

John Siracusa: “We established before the definition of enterprise software, the people who pay for the software and select it are not the people who use it — so your software being more desirable for users means almost nothing in the enterprise.” → Read More

Sebastiaan De With: “When you come across an article set in a superb typeface for reading, some excellent airport signage or a well designed door handle, you don’t think about it or even notice it. If anything you might just notice being happier, or simply not frustrated. That’s how you know a design is great: it disappears.” → Read More

Manage the noise, get multiple mics, have fresh air somewhere, help people talk to each other and reduce the number of attendees. → Read More

Blood, Sweat and Pixels: “That's what tool are. It's how fast can you iterate.” → Read More

Steve Yegge: “Don’t try to beat a network by making a clone with improvements. It ain’t gonna work.” → Read More

Khoi Vinh: “It’s the idea that design should make tech comfortable for people. It should put people at ease. So you have all these little cues that make people feel like they can explore the tech, they don’t have to worry about being caught in a trap or inadvertently triggering a nuclear meltdown. […] I mean, on the one hand, technology that consumers interact with has gotten so much better. […] But there’s this whole other sector of technology – the stuff that you and I don’t get to interact with everyday [like power plants or emergency centers]. That stuff still is pretty rough still.” → Read More