Wow, it’s much too easy to lose track of time here.
writing
/purpose
A great idea: “Sharing your purpose means being explicit about the place you ultimately want to take people and about the metrics you use for measuring success. By doing that, you elevate the dialog you can have with users and treat them with greater respect. You also bring them along for the ride, transforming future updates from arbitrary change to progress. “
Design Jargon Bullshit
What it says. Scary and awesome and sad.
The Manifesto Manifesto
A.k.a. “How to Write a Manifesto.”
All that is Necessary
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettiness, without being either good businessmen or fine judges of literature. All that is necessary in the production of a book is an author and a bookseller, without the intermediate parasite.
George Bernard Shaw
This is easily extrapolated to the design and development world.