We’re all afraid of things. Some real – heart attacks; some distant – terrorists; some vague – the lizard brain’s resistance to change; some too real and terrible to ever really be acknowledged. This post is about that kind of fear. Another parent (and here, “parent” is a term of art meaning a parent of a…
Congratulations go to sittercity.com today for web form usability. I’ve been filling out a lot of forms lately, and the ones that annoy me are those that seek city, state, and zip. Maybe they haven’t learned that zip codes are highly correlated with specific locations, like the towns we live and work in. For two…
In this post on how great architects get stuff built, (reminiscent of the Real Artists Ship quote from Steve Jobs and Seth’s take on shipping), Seth remarks that brilliant can’t long co-exist with undiscovered and under underappreciated. Just the other day, I saw a quote about dating in NYC: “Everyone’s too busy and everyone…
This summary on “Is Stupidity Contagious?” connects with a whole series of stupidity posts on that blog (I can’t quite bring myself to type it — since I mostly can’t remember which of the syllables goes where even when I try to say it out loud from memory!). I like these bits from social science…