14 Jul 2010

The Rock

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I love gapingvoid cartoons. This one particularly resonates with me - anyone else feel a bit like Sisyphus? I think ownership, or at least the feeling of ownership, is so important in terms of motivation.

5 Jul 2010

Jeff Bezos Princeton University Speech

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?

Great speech by Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon). I love the list of questions at the end of the speech. It's easy to sit and think about doing things; much harder to actually do them. One day we will all be very old, some of us are already older than we realise or feel! Build something. Release it. Watch it fail but enjoy the ride. Regrets are more often born of inaction than action. I don't want to be old and saying "I wish I had...."

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I'm a Software Engineer and all round technophile. I love Ruby on Rails, Objective-C, HCI/Usability, Real Ale and rock.

My main blog is over at Usability Friction where I write about usability and design.