Monthly Archives: December 2006

Don Norman has a great article titled Simplicity Is Highly Overrated where he talks about how customers aren’t really looking for products to be simpler, they really are looking for more features. He notes

…people are not willing to … Continue reading →

Wild story: Doctors Say Man Survived Extreme Weather by ‘Hibernating’…

A man who went missing in western Japan survived in near-freezing weather without food and water for over three weeks by falling into a state similar to hibernation, doctors said.
Mitsutaka Uchikoshi … Continue reading →

Stowe Boyd wrote the following when some people responded to criticism of a conference by saying that the organizers “tried really, really hard”:

Everything worth doing is difficult to do well. Conferences, playing the bongos, tap dancing, sex, whatever. Developing software … Continue reading →

Just had to link to World’s Tallest Man Uses Long Arms to Save 2 Dolphins in China:

The long arms of the world’s tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and … Continue reading →

Great article at Scientific American on the 10 Promising Treatments for World’s Biggest Health Threats.

Treatments for diabetes, smoking, Alzheimer’s disease and lung cancer are just a few of the potentially lifesaving cures Scientific American has chosen to highlight in this … Continue reading →

EarthLink Is Losing a Lot of Email: LandGator writes “Robert X. Cringely, doyen compu-columnist for PBS, reports on a hidden e-mail problem at Earthlink: They’re losing up to 9 messages out of 10, found as a result of a … Continue reading →

Rajesh Setty has a great article today titled Making the most of your time. He offers 9 tips:

Executing on your current projects flawlessly
Strengthening your personal brand
Building long-term relationships
Increasing your capacity to deliver
Making a difference to the world
Increasing others’ capacity … Continue reading →

Jason Calacanis writes in Black hat and White hat SEO (or “Is SEO B.S. or not?”):

My belief has always been that:
a) if you do a great site and you take your time you will rise in the Google rankings
b) I … Continue reading →