Burst of links: What else is there on the Internet?
About these burst of links: Steve has to admit: not the only one with handsome good looks and insightful views. Of course, no one loves cookies on top of that as much as Steve. Just a bunch of links you may not be aware of.
In a poetic essay thinking over Steve Jobs death: …the quicker you can kill a dream by making it real, the quicker you see bigger, more important dreams once blocked by the first. The same goes for celebrity: the deconstruction of celebrity removes excuses. With mystery, and thereby celebrity gone, so also goes the pedestal. Their achievements can be more easily assessed at human scale
Back in 2004, John critiques an open source advocate on Desktop Linux usability UI development is the hard part. And it’s not the last step, it’s the first step. In my estimation, the difference between:
In the last Hypercritical episode of 2011 titled, “Blue Ocean”, John Siracusa goes into an hour explaining Nintendo’s situation and how the gaming industry parallels the tech industry.
For about an hour in his radio show, Rob Morris talks one on one with Steve Blank. Always great listening to a man with such vast experience. The interview circles entrepreneurship, business models, and a tiny bit on Steve Jobs. If you’ve been following Mr. Blank for awhile, the ideas may seem like a repeat but all the better for them to stick. ^_^ Check it out
Listening in on the Critical Path Bob Moesta interview, Horace Dediu continues his elaboration on the Job To Be Done theory. Steve never heard of this theory spelled out clearly before but sounds familiar. That’s not to say this isn’t original, just that it has remnants of other closely related ideas, the first that comes to mind is Mark Magnacca’s So What book.
There are a lot of design articles going around giving the same advice of focus and simpleness but this is the first, in a while at least, that gives you something tangible and less theoretical.
Mathew Ingram on the ebook piracy & Amazon threat This kind of insistence on DRM and incompatible platforms, as well as the tangle of rights and often competing interests of publishers and authors when it comes to licensing copies or sharing, makes e-book buying a snake-pit of complexities — and only reinforces Amazon’s hold on the market, since it offers a simple end-to-end solution
Matt Gemmel discuss design copies & innovation in his latest aricle but find the following passages food for thought: When designing something, ideas aren’t the problem. Indeed, even crazy, blue-sky ideas are often in plentiful supply. What kills you is reality - the actual implementation.