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by kadavy 14y ago
I'd be interested to hear some specific ways that Brian defined and maintained this company culture. For example, what was one vision of environment, vision, or values, and how did that affect an instance of hiring or process?
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by kadavy 14y ago
Awesome to hear all of that. I'm so glad that it's been helpful. That's why I do it, after all!
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by kadavy 14y ago
Thanks for recommending "Design for Hackers!" (I wrote it) I think your advice is good. So much design is really about thinking. If you have a clear picture of what the experience is like for your user, and can create some wireframes or pen
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Eventually, you get there(kadavy.net)
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by kadavy 14y ago
I just found this on the "DecidingToBeBetter" subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/12jh16/p... One comment: '"Permission to suck" is quite the erotic sentence :)'
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by kadavy 14y ago
Love that Ira Glass video. Very relevant to this concept.
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by kadavy 14y ago
> particularly to fail in public This reminds me of when I learned to dance Salsa, and more recently, Tango. It's a far more public failure than writing a blog post. Your body – the very thing that experiences the embarrassment of failu
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by kadavy 14y ago
Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job comes to mind. They make an art of "sucking." Lou Reed has a horribly sucky singing voice. I love him for it.
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by kadavy 14y ago
Good points. Part of being okay with sucking is that if you're okay with sucking – you're more likely to be okay with shipping. The surprising thing I've found about being okay about sucking at writing is that often the "barf drafts" (as I
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by kadavy 14y ago
I've been playing guitar for 13 years, and I still am not very good. A breakthrough for me though, was when I stopped obsessing over getting every note right, and instead focused on strumming the right chords. Then, I found playing much mor
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hehe, I was just describing what my friend said about meditating. I did, in fact, tell her that it wasn't really about thinking about "nothing." Talking about the specifics of meditation wasn't really my aim here :)
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Prefrontal Mondays(kadavy.net)
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Mind Management (Not Time Management)(kadavy.net)
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Gotye remix using old printer, oscilloscope, etc.(youtube.com)
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by kadavy 14y ago
If distribution was the problem, wouldn't this be taken care of by having a huge group of indie filmmakers banded together. I'm feeling very naïve about the movie industry here – is what we're describing simply a movie studio?
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by kadavy 14y ago
Fair point :)
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by kadavy 14y ago
I can confirm that Joe Avella loved Primer. He even sent me a copy in the mail (hey, it was a long time ago).
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by kadavy 14y ago
As I was editing this article, I was thinking the same thing myself. My guess is, it would be pretty tricky to turn a profit: movies like Primer are going to be rare. But maybe you could get the formula right? Find filmmakers with collabora
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Minimum Viable Movie: How I Made a Feature-Length Film for $0(kadavy.net)
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by kadavy 14y ago
Great move by both of these companies. I had dinner with Mike McGee (one of the co-founders) a couple of months ago, and could hardly believe my ears when I heard his story of bootstrapping Code Academy. These guys generated serious revenue
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How to get past being a one hit wonder(okdork.com)
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History Of The “Entrepreneurial Revolution”(alexmandossian.com)
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by kadavy 14y ago
> "Want" is not picking a warm-fuzzy-inducing phrase off a list because you feel compelled to make a choice. "Want" is "get the he11 out of my way" compulsive drive which permeates your being. To many faced with "you can be whatever
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by kadavy 14y ago
Yeah, Verdana is fantastic on screen (this was especially so before anti-aliasing was standard), but looks awful in print. EDIT: also, didn't know about IKEA's Verdanagate (from your link above). Fascinating!
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by kadavy 14y ago
Actually, while Georgia is a good font overall, the design is Georgia is optimized for the screen. Because of this, it has some peculiarities, such as a very large x-height (so the pixels in the counterforms can be read). Here's a little mo
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by kadavy 14y ago
Avoiding black definitely causes you to make color choices that add more dimension and realism to your interfaces. Interfaces, after all, are representations of reality. One helpful tip: "warm" colors jump out at you, and "cool" colors rece
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the mention!
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hey, thanks for mentioning Design for Hackers!
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by kadavy 14y ago
Hey, thanks for the mention!
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by kadavy 14y ago
I actually have found QR codes to be effective when used in presentations at tech conferences. At the end of each talk, I have a QR code on the final slide that points to a page where attendees can get more info. About 1/4 of all people who

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