The Way I Work: Jason Fried of 37Signals, Page 2. You could sum up Jason Fried's philosophy as "less is more.
" Except that he hates that expression, because, he says, it still "implies that more is better. " Fried prefers "less is less. " It's a core principle of 37Signals, the Chicago-based company he launched in 1999 with Ernest Kim and Carlos Segura. The company started as a Web design firm. Then, in 2003, Fried hired David Heinemeier Hansson, a Danish programmer, to write software to keep the company's design projects organized. I don't use an alarm clock. I try not to grab my phone and check e-mails first thing. I love tea. For breakfast, I usually eat a couple of maple-infused Van's waffles and a handful of pistachios. Then sometimes I head in to the office. I usually get to work between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. I spend most of my day writing. Our blog has more than 100,000 readers, but I don't post every day. I spend another good portion of my day thinking about how to make things less complicated. These books are our cookbooks.
10 Free iPhone Apps To Learn A New Skill In 10 Minutes. As well as options for almost unimaginably varied entertainment, the powerful iPhone platform can be used as a learning tool.
Thanks to kind-hearted developers, many of the phone's best educational apps are available completely free. We've compiled a list of the 10 of the best free iPhone apps that allow you to learn a new skill in about 10 minutes (or less). Why not download a few now, and the next time you have a spare ten minutes, spend it boosting your life skills level by learning something new instead of mowing down the undead in Plants vs Zombies. Let us know in the comments what other educational iPhone apps you enjoy using. 1.
We love this app. 2. It's no good in a medical emergency fumbling with your iPhone for a quick tutorial if the person in front of you is already turning blue. 3. A great time-waster for bored cubicle dwellers, this app shows you a few different methods of tying your necktie. Twitter Mood Light - The World's Mood in a Box. How's the world feeling right now?
This box tells you. Powered by: an Arduino, a WiFly wireless module, an RGB LED, Twitter.com and a 9v battery. I’m a news junkie. I want to know everything that is going on in the world as soon as it happens. I want to wake up and know immediately if something big has happened overnight. However, I’m an extraordinarily busy man; I don’t have time to read news feeds; reading that headline that I already knew about or don’t care about is time that I’m never getting back! No. ...A way to get a glimpse of the collective human consciousness as an extension of my own. And so, I present: The World Mood in a Box! If an unexpectedly high number of tweets of a particular emotion are found, then the LED will flash to alert us to the possibility of a world event that has caused this unusually strong emotional reaction. Perspectives on Consumers.