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You’re not the user. Listen to the user.

mic — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:18:08 +0000

“ Neither your opinion of what users should think, nor my opinion of what users should think, matters as much as what users actually do think. Be a scientist, not a priest. ”

Mark Shuttleworth

Perfect and impossible

mic — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:48:57 +0000

“ If you are in love with the perfect, prepare to see it swept away. If you are able to dream of the impossible, it just might happen. ”

Seth

Change your mind… Find your way…

mic — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:39:34 +0000

“ In a world of surfers, all you can do is work to make the best wave you can. The real revolution is that you get to make waves, not just ride them. ”

Seth

Il dovere della Fantascienza

mic — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:59:20 +0000

“ Nella sua visione prospettica, la fantascienza non dovrebbe mai rinunciare alla sua funzione critica: della società, del potere, dell’economia. E’ probabilmente l’unica peculiarità che le è rimasta ora che l’anelito al futuro permea ogni anfratto della realtà. Se togliamo alla fantascienza la sua carica propulsiva sul piano delle idee, non rimane che un guscio vuoto, destinato a essere riempito solo di sterili immagini. E il futuro non può risolversi in un banale coacervo di effetti speciali e seducenti promesse, così come ce li scodellano ogni giorno cinema, tv, pubblicità e videogiochi. La fantascienza scritta ha un obbligo morale di presidio. E per adempierlo fino in fondo deve fare pieno affidamento su quella che è stata sempre la sua massima potenza di fuoco: le idee. ”

Dario Tonani
Dall’intervista pubblicata su Urania 1574

Il 90% è comunicazione…

mic — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:43:54 +0000

“ No one likes schleps, but hackers especially dislike them. Most hackers who start startups wish they could do it by just writing some clever software, putting it on a server somewhere, and watching the money roll in—without ever having to talk to users, or negotiate with other companies, or deal with other people’s broken code. Maybe that’s possible, but I haven’t seen it. ”

Paul Graham

An endless series of difficult but achievable hills

mic — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:34:48 +0000

“ The craft of your career comes in picking the right hills. Hills just challenging enough that you can barely make it over. A series of hills becomes a mountain, and a series of mountains is a career. ”

Seth

I kamikaze del meteo

mic — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:41:34 +0000

“ Eppure l’intero sistema dell’informazione nazionale è stato colto di sorpresa da un’ondata di “gelo siberiano”. O di “temperature polari”, e via discorrendo. Così, nel giro di quarantott’ore, ci è toccato assistere a un’improbabile gara di luoghi comuni che hanno trasformato il più normale dei fenomeni meteorologici in uno stato di emergenza permanente a nove colonne. In cui peraltro la maggiore preoccupazione, sottolineata senza eccezioni, è per la sospensione delle partite di calcio. “La serie A chiude per gelo”, titola il “Corriere” mentre scrivo. Echissenefrega, aggiungo io, dimentico che il calcio è ormai la sola vera industria superstite di questa maledettissima penisola. ”

Marco Cattaneo

The Pirate Coelho

mic — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:54:02 +0000

» My thoughts on S.O.P.A. — Paulo Coelho’s Blog

Follow the “Vision”

mic — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:50:49 +0000

“ Entrepreneurs, I invite you to start asking yourselves new questions. What vision of the future truly inspires you? What values and principles do you want to live by? What will allow you and your team to flourish? In the words of philosopher Howard Thurman, “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” ”

Dave Kashen

The warning signs of defending the status quo

mic — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:10:47 +0000

“
When confronted with a new idea, do you:

Consider the cost of switching before you consider the benefits?
Highlight the pain to a few instead of the benefits for the many?
Exaggerate how good things are now in order to reduce your fear of change?
Undercut the credibility, authority or experience of people behind the change?
Grab onto the rare thing that could go wrong instead of amplifying the likely thing that will go right?
Focus on short-term costs instead of long-term benefits, because the short-term is more vivid for you?
Fight to retain benefits and status earned only through tenure and longevity?
Embrace an instinct to accept consistent ongoing costs instead of swallowing a one-time expense?
Slow implementation and decision making down instead of speeding it up?
Embrace sunk costs?
Imagine that your competition is going to be as afraid of change as you are? Even the competition that hasn’t entered the market yet and has nothing to lose…
Emphasize emergency preparation at the expense of a chronic and degenerative condition?
Compare the best of what you have now with the possible worst of what a change might bring?

Calling it out when you see it might give your team the strength to make a leap.

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via Seth’s Blog