Definitely not a mac.
But Zen minimalism is in you, not in your gadgets, and I do have some emotional connections with old IBM.
My wife used to work for IBM, and every night she brought home her ThinkPad. I always envied how she got to spend her days working with such a formal yet friendly design, while I was hacking away on a menagerie of third-tier craptops. This looks like a great carry-through on that original design tradition. Tip of the hat to Lenovo for keeping the faith. Word.
A few musings from the latest business trip:
Soon, “transparency” as we know it will bifurcate into “honesty” and “transparency”. Honesty will, cosmos willing, continue to remain an important factor in our dealings with companies and people. Transparency, on the other hand, isn’t inherently good or bad - and soon may disappear, only to be replaced by obscurity, a sense of mystery, a sense of wonder.
Sort of like the Hollister stores in the mall, except for the Hollister part.
(As sparked by This Life of Leisure)
Mother blob talking to her son blob who just went off to college, via her new waterproof iPad that she has hacked to work with an old iSight she bought along with her PowerBook 12 back when he was just a wee blob.
I was >this close< to having completely switched over to the Android phone from the iPhone - and had been living entirely out of the Nexus One for nearly a month - when all of a sudden my phone decides to no longer connect to my WiFi at home. Checking the settings didn’t do anything. Unfriending the WiFi and friending it again? Nothing. Burning a small effigy of the 802.11 working committee, complete with them holding detailed reproductions of the entire specification document painstakingly recreated by hand with grains of rice and a toothpick dipped in ram’s blood? Nothing.
*sigh*
So it’s back to the iPhone 3GS for me, and that pecky little keyboard, and no voice recognition, and no ‘back’ button to so elegantly (and confusingly, natch) temporally reverse my path through clicks and taps.
Let’s see how long it lasts.
The old GoPhone is looking better and better by the day.
(and yes, my sincerest apologies for the “So close but no cigar” rhyme up there)
Just found a way to work “Nine Inch Nails” into a client presentation.
henriquedias asked: any ideas about journaling?
I have tried mac journal, specially for the video feature, but I still
just need some paper, looks so cold
by the way,
congrats fot the system, as I posted on Facebook, old school at its best,
I trying something just the same, but, inspired by you I'm keeping the master list on the mac, and everyday i just pick up a peace paper.
just the one I feel like.
best regards,
h.
Glad you like the GSD system! I don’t do much around journaling, although lately I’ve been keeping a few notes in the margins of my daily book. Regarding the master list, I found that when I put it on the Mac, I end up getting distracted whenever I look for it, so I’m back to paper for everything including the master.
As I find myself getting further from my 20s, it’s important to me to not become one of those people that hangs on desperately (or obliviously) to things from their youth, but rather to be someone who stays connected to the swells and currents of the day, remaining fresh and engage and aware of the evolving world around me.
It requires proactive effort to stay with the trends, discarding old mores and likes and staying with the times, learning to like Kay Perry (California Gurls FTW) and Eminem and Rihanna instead of rehashing my collection of aging MP3s, traipsing to the store to refresh the wardrobe from time to time, refusing to move up to the iPhone 4 and instead shifting focus to the Android. And in the end, it’s quite enjoyable, as it brings new texture and interest into your life.
But people, what the hell is it with these new dork-fest plastic sunglasses? Do you people have no self-respect? Is this just some big self-deprecating joke (“Woo hoo! Next I wear a diaper! I’m so damn hip!”)?
Get some new sunglasses, hippies. And get off my lawn!
(Oh, and all due respect to random Flickr user and tagger Dani, who if I’m reading it right, kind of agrees but from a younger perspective. Or something.)
Can’t wait until Android, iOS, and WebOS are all virtualized so I can just run any mobile app on any phone. Oh, and Modern Warfare too.
Rule #3: Don’t highlight a feature that’s worse than the competition
If you’re releasing a new product that’s supposed to be (a) one of your flagship products, (b) the savior for your company, (c) a trendsetting example of your technical prowess, or (d) all of the above, don’t dedicate an entire section of your launch page to a feature that is - directly out of the box - already worse than the competition.
Nokia: “Not one but three live home screens – make one for work, use one for fun, and have one with your favorite picture as the wallpaper.”
Uh, gentlemen, you may want to refer to the Google Android for its out-of-the-box five home screens, and the iPhone for its (count ‘em) 11 home screens, before you expect your customers to get all excited about this.
