Josh Fallon - Quotes https://www.joshfallon.com/projects/quotes/ A collection of product designer Josh Fallon’s favorite quotes, sourced from his Twitter account, Instapaper and Kindle highlights, and things he's saved from various sources in his Notes app. en-us <![CDATA[Amateurs can wait for inspiration; professionals must create every day.]]>https://essays.fnnch.com/make-a-livingfnnch
How to Make a Living as an Artist
Quoted March 1, 2026]]>Sun, 1 Mar 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[When it comes to building software – and, if we look forward a few years, building pretty much anything at a computer – we will all be juggling the full-throttle euphoria of instant creation with the nihilistic realization that the credit and true satisfaction, increasingly, is not our own.]]>https://foggyfuture.substack.com/p/the-giddy-nothingness-of-automaticBen Sigelman
The Giddy Nothingness of Automatic Creation
Quoted March 1, 2026]]>Sun, 1 Mar 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[For a lot of people, the actual details of the craft matter, and the quiet hard work of it is the reason why we're here, not an inconvenience.]]>https://macwright.com/2026/03/01/recentlyTom MacWright
Recently
Quoted March 1, 2026]]>Sun, 1 Mar 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[We are entering the industrial age of the digital age.]]>https://www.eod.com/blog/2026/02/lose-myself/Greg Knauss
Lose Myself
Quoted February 26, 2026]]>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Realism is unfashionable. It lacks spectacle.]]>https://peterboeckel.com/writing/displacementofpurposePeter Boeckel
The Displacement of Purpose.
Quoted February 23, 2026]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Our craft, as we have practiced it, will end up like some blacksmith’s tool in an archeological dig, a curio for future generations.]]>https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/Nolan Lawson
We mourn our craft
Quoted February 23, 2026]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Design needs room for taste, for careful exceptions, for escalation of immesurable things, and for a certain flexibility in even the basic definitions.]]>https://unsung.aresluna.org/how-to-make-sure-a-designer-never-files-a-bug-again/Marcin Wichary
How to make sure a designer never files a bug again
Quoted February 23, 2026]]>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Thirty-four isn’t old for anyone. It’s just not young for a baseball player.]]>https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/103761/best-of-bp-2025-mike-trout-age-34/Patrick Dubuque
Mike Trout, Age 34
Quoted February 15, 2026]]>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.]]>https://blogs.fangraphs.com/fangraphs-weekly-mailbag-january-31-2026/Michael Baumann
FanGraphs Weekly Mailbag
Quoted January 31, 2026]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[This world is intricately stitched together, boys. Every thread we pull, we know not how it affects the design of things. We’re but children on this earth, pulling bolts out of the Ferris wheel, thinking ourselves to be gods.]]>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29768334/Arn Peeples
Train Dreams
Quoted January 29, 2026]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[What is good? Is my version of good the same as yours?]]>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37545198/Ken Andrews
Every Time You Lose Your Mind: A Film About Failure
Quoted December 27, 2025]]>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Each client we work with, each platform we support – they aren’t isolated transactions. They’re votes cast in an ongoing election about what kind of world we’re building.]]>https://www.densediscovery.com/issues/357Kai Brach
Dense Discovery #357
Quoted September 23, 2025]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The best productivity hack in the world is simply liking your job.]]>https://www.platformer.news/productivity-tools-ai-2025/Casey Newton
What I learned about productivity this year
Quoted August 21, 2025]]>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[People who make things tend to move on when there’s nothing left to make.]]>https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/Mike Monteiro
How to not build the Torment Nexus
Quoted August 7, 2025]]>Thu, 7 Aug 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Every tool changes the shape of the hand that uses it.]]>https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-deleted-my-second-brainJoan Westenberg
I Deleted My Second Brain
Quoted June 16, 2025]]>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Maybe being the butt of a joke is better than not being included in the joke at all.]]>https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-rehearsal-nathan-fielder-fake-singing-show-contestant-1236393533/Ethan Shanfeld
Nathan Fielder Created a Fake Singing Competition for ‘The Rehearsal.’
Quoted May 15, 2025]]>Thu, 15 May 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The phone eats time; it makes us live the way people do inside a casino, dropping a blackout curtain over the windows to block out the world, except the blackout curtain is a screen, showing too much of the world, too quickly.]]>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-brain-finally-brokeJia Tolentino
My Brain Finally Broke
Quoted May 10, 2025]]>Sat, 10 May 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it.]]>https://ozanvarol.com/the-key-to-becoming-extraordinary/Brian Eno
The key to becoming extraordinary
Quoted April 9, 2025]]>Wed, 9 Apr 2025 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “Oh, my back is sore!”<br>Ashley: “Your lower back?”<br>Charli: “From here to my butt.”<br>Ashley: “That sounds like a memoir — ‘From Here to My Butt’”]]>Ashley
Quoted February 23, 2025]]>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Drama usually means profound misunderstanding.]]>https://randsinrepose.com/archives/wp-engine-wordpress-briefly/Michael Lopp
WP Engine / WordPress, Briefly
Quoted October 8, 2024]]>Tue, 8 Oct 2024 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Beef jerky is so boy dad and turkey jerky is so girl dad.]]>Madi
Quoted July 17, 2024]]>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[There are times when I wish I believed in hell — other than the hells we make for one another, I mean.]]>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60932.Parable_of_the_TalentsOctavia E. Butler
Parable of the Talents
Quoted April 27, 2024]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[When was the last time you truly, deeply, unabashedly connected with something and you didn’t say a single word about it?]]>https://gkeenan.co/avgb/hot-take-its-okay-if-we-dont-consume-all-of-the-worlds-information-before-we-dieKennan
Hot take: It’s okay if we don’t consume all of the world’s information before we die
Quoted April 26, 2024]]>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Lots of “Why did they do that dumb thing?” comes down to “We didn’t know”. Conversely, a lot of “Wow, they were brilliant!” also is not real planning: it just happened to turn out well.]]>https://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/index.php/2013/11/06/scheduling-major-league-baseball/Mike Trick
Scheduling major League baseball
Quoted March 29, 2024]]>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Ratatouille walked so The Bear could run.]]>Madi
Quoted March 10, 2024]]>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Name plus purpose equals focus.]]>https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52397.Parable_of_the_SowerOctavia E. Butler
Parable of the Sower
Quoted March 1, 2024]]>Fri, 1 Mar 2024 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Pessimism and optimism share a trait: both are self-fulfilling.]]>https://stephango.com/optimismSteph Ango
Choose optimism
Quoted February 27, 2024]]>Tue, 27 Feb 2024 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[You fall asleep for short periods and then for longer periods and then forever.]]>https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20170404Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
Quoted February 16, 2024]]>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.]]>https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20170404Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven
Quoted February 13, 2024]]>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[The interdisciplinarian is essentially an exile. Someone who respects no borders enjoys no citizenship.]]>https://www.wired.com/story/own-future-artificial-intelligence-read-shakespeare/Paul Ford
To Own the Future, Read Shakespeare
Quoted January 2, 2024]]>Tue, 2 Jan 2024 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[In a world where it’s easy to feel like you're losing your grip, it’s a good reminder: your grip is fine. You’re just being handed a lot of slippery things.]]>https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221521153/2023-50-wonderful-thingsLinda Holmes
The year in review: 50 wonderful things from 2023
Quoted December 27, 2023]]>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[This is not a sport for optimists, but rather a constant reminder that everything good can and will eventually turn to ash in your mouth.]]>https://blogs.fangraphs.com/how-to-live-the-entire-human-experience-in-one-inning/Michael Baumann
How to Live the Entire Human Experience in One Inning
Quoted October 18, 2023]]>Wed, 18 Oct 2023 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different.]]>https://theody.net/vonnegut.htmlKurt Vonnegut
Technology and Me
Quoted September 15, 2023]]>Fri, 15 Sep 2023 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[When you’re uncertain which knot is securing your body to the face of a mountain, it’s best not to start undoing any of them willy-nilly.]]>https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2023/7/6/how-to-blow-up-a-timelineEugene Wei
How to Blow Up a Timeline
Quoted July 7, 2023]]>Fri, 7 Jul 2023 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[In time, we all end up in a folder somewhere, if we’re lucky.]]>https://www.wired.com/story/my-fathers-death-in-7-gigabytes-internet-archive/Paul Ford
My Father’s Death in 7 Gigabytes
Quoted June 15, 2023]]>Thu, 15 Jun 2023 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Nobody does a product design sprint on how their app should behave in the event that it unexpectedly no longer exists.]]>https://www.theverge.com/23653556/tweetbot-twitter-api-elon-musk-mastodonRob Dubbin
Canary in the emerald mine
Quoted April 7, 2023]]>Fri, 7 Apr 2023 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Baseball has become one of those things you need to only check on twice a year, like an HVAC, or an aunt.]]>https://www.wsj.com/articles/shohei-ohtani-mike-trout-world-baseball-classic-b401b502Jason Gay
I’m Excited to Watch Baseball. What Is Wrong With Me?
Quoted March 23, 2023]]>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[There is no more profound human bias than the expectation that tomorrow will be like today. It is a powerful heuristic tool because it is almost always correct.]]>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/opinion/chatbots-artificial-intelligence-future-weirdness.htmlEzra Klein
This Changes Everything
Quoted March 12, 2023]]>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Why do we do the complicated work and in-depth analysis when the easier thing—just some basic reporting—is also the more valuable thing?]]>https://benn.substack.com/p/insight-industrial-complexBenn Stancil
The insight industrial complex
Quoted March 7, 2023]]>Tue, 7 Mar 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Baseball is the most statistically obsessed of all human pursuits.]]>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/04/09/the-baseball-writer-bill-brysonBill Bryson
My Father, Babe Ruth, and Me
Quoted March 6, 2023]]>Mon, 6 Mar 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[For a few hours Tuesday night, I felt a strange new emotion — a foreboding feeling that A.I. had crossed a threshold, and that the world would never be the same.]]>https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.htmlKevin Roose
A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled
Quoted February 16, 2023]]>Thu, 16 Feb 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[The kind of things that you learn in this experience are more like what you learn by running a marathon or moving to a new city: you can talk about them, but it doesn’t really impart the knowledge.]]>https://macwright.com/2023/01/28/placemark.htmlTom MacWright
On Placemark
Quoted January 28, 2023]]>Sat, 28 Jan 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[We set up the clichés and reversed the audience’s expectation of the outcome. That’s all it is. … That worked 30 years ago, it’ll work today and it’ll work 30 years from now.]]>https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/naked-gun-baseball-game-scene-national-anthem-angels-mariners-dodgers-stadium-enrico-pallazzo/zztjoa4obui818oo9waqjyf34Jason Foster
'It's Enrico Pallazzo!': The inside story of 'The Naked Gun' baseball game
Quoted January 27, 2023]]>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[The moment you find out exactly where the robot falls short of the human, it becomes entirely uninteresting.]]>https://embedded.substack.com/p/i-dont-care-what-the-ai-wroteKate Lindsay
I don’t care what the AI wrote
Quoted December 7, 2022]]>Wed, 7 Dec 2022 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Just because rules are dumb and you are smart, that doesn't always mean that you get to take advantage of them.]]>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-17/blockchain-company-s-smart-contracts-were-dumbMatt Levine
Blockchain Company's Smart Contracts Were Dumb
Quoted October 20, 2022]]>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The past is a map, and it got us here.]]>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10579920/Clark Thompson
Station Eleven, "The Severn City Airport"
Quoted October 10, 2022]]>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If you had a magically weighted coin that came up heads 60% of the time, it would take quite a while for your friends to realize your relatively unambitious chicanery.]]>https://blogs.fangraphs.com/nl-division-series-preview-los-angeles-dodgers-vs-san-diego-padres-2/Dan Szymborski
NL Division Series Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres
Quoted October 10, 2022]]>Mon, 10 Oct 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[When a dream fails, nothing changes, except that the world becomes gray, without the potential for color shift.]]>https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/letters-to-jeb-bushAdam Dalva
Letters to Jeb Bush
Quoted October 3, 2022]]>Mon, 3 Oct 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Poor design meets one need while creating a dozen others.]]>https://tannerchristensen.com/blog/2022/5/17/systems-thinking-is-what-makes-designers-greatTanner Christensen
Systems thinking is what makes designers great
Quoted September 25, 2022]]>Sun, 25 Sep 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[When you hire someone to run your hot-dog stand and he starts telling the customers that hot dogs are bad for them, that relationship won’t endure. Even if he’s right about the hot dogs.]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2022/09/02/farewell-to-hot-air-n494121Nick Catoggio
My Farewell to Hot Air Readers
Quoted September 2, 2022]]>Fri, 2 Sep 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Isn’t that what baseball is about? At some romantic, idealized and admittedly naïve level, it’s about a sport that binds communities.]]>https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/mike-trout-millville-18-k-no-hitter/b8pevuzcdzatmxriiz3ygm9uJoe Rivera
Trout Country: Mike Trout, Millville and the legend of the 18-K no-hitter
Quoted August 7, 2022]]>Sun, 7 Aug 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[There is a single steadfast rule for being alive right now, and it is: Do not bet against the dumbest possible outcome.]]>https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/6267078012500c0020c9b4ad/elon-musk-buy-twitter-outcome/Charlie Warzel
Three Potential Timelines for a Musk-Owned Twitter
Quoted April 25, 2022]]>Mon, 25 Apr 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Trauma often manifests when adrenaline fades & people exhale.]]>Ed Yong
Twitter
Quoted April 15, 2022]]>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I often trick myself into thinking that the road to less stuff might be paved with more stuff.]]>https://www.wired.com/story/a-grand-unified-theory-of-buying-stuff/Paul Ford
A Grand Unified Theory of Buying Stuff
Quoted January 11, 2022]]>Tue, 11 Jan 2022 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Souls are as scarce as microchips these days. The supply chain seems to be snarled.]]>http://adaged.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-fking-master.htmlGeorge Tannenbaum
A f**king master.
Quoted September 20, 2021]]>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Rare events are common at scale.]]>https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/09/six-ways-think-about-pandemic-now/620129/Katherine J. Wu, Ed Yong, and Sarah Zhang
Six Rules That Will Define Our Second Pandemic Winter
Quoted September 20, 2021]]>Mon, 20 Sep 2021 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Before you grasp, you have to reach.]]>https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agencySimon Sarris
The Most Precious Resource is Agency
Quoted June 30, 2021]]>Wed, 30 Jun 2021 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If a gazelle stops for a snack 60 feet, six inches away from a lion, you can’t give the lion the take sign.]]>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/la-russa-mercedes-astudillo/619080/Devin Gordon
Baseball is Broken
Quoted June 4, 2021]]>Fri, 4 Jun 2021 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Gut instinct doesn't scale.]]>https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/creating-sourcegraph-product-design-principles/Quinn Keast
How we created Sourcegraph’s product design principles
Quoted May 18, 2021]]>Tue, 18 May 2021 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I’ve spent enough time covering the internet to be reflexively anxious about wholly dismissing things just because they’re stupid.]]>https://warzel.substack.com/p/the-absurdity-is-the-pointCharlie Warzel
The Absurdity is the Point
Quoted May 11, 2021]]>Tue, 11 May 2021 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I've never seen any life transformation that didn't begin with the person in question finally getting sick of their own bullshit.]]>Elizabeth Gilbert
Twitter
Quoted February 23, 2021]]>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Optimism shouldn’t be seen as opposed to pessimism, but in conversation with it.]]>https://time.com/5933596/amanda-gorman-michelle-obama-interview/Michelle Obama
Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama in Conversation
Quoted February 4, 2021]]>Thu, 4 Feb 2021 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[A near-miss, interpreted correctly, is a great teacher.]]>https://www.theinsight.org/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-anniversaryZeynep Tufekci
Lessons from a Pandemic Anniversary
Quoted January 31, 2021]]>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[The universe is divided into two types of people: “I had to go through it, so you should too” and “I had to go through it, so I will work and change it to make sure you don’t.” You choose.]]>Millie Tran
Twitter
Quoted January 22, 2021]]>Fri, 22 Jan 2021 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Ignoring near misses is how people and societies get in real trouble the next time.]]>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/trumps-farcical-inept-and-deadly-serious-coup-attempt/617309/Zeynep Tufekci
‘This Must Be Your First’
Quoted December 7, 2020]]>Mon, 7 Dec 2020 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Do your best to find folks doing work you aspire to, and ‘smoosh your nose against their studio window’.]]>https://newsletterest.com/message/40232/113-The-season-finale Craig Mod
Dense Discovery
Quoted November 9, 2020]]>Mon, 9 Nov 2020 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Rules are a good start, then break them]]>https://youtu.be/4GK1NDTWbkYHenrik Kniberg
Spotify Engineering Culture
Quoted November 9, 2020]]>Mon, 9 Nov 2020 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Sports is and always will be a metaphor for society.]]>https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30202748Jeff Passan
The oddest of World Series ends with the most 2020 moment of the season
Quoted October 28, 2020]]>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[We’re driving faster and faster into the future, trying to steer by using only the rear-view mirror.]]>Marshall McLuhan
Quoted September 28, 2020]]>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Whether our graves are the cold and shadowy depths of the ocean or a potter’s field stacked with plague victims, the grave awaits us all, and always has. Your efforts matter as much as they always did, which is to say not one little tiny bit, except that they are the most precious of things — they are your heart.]]>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-was-in-charge-of-the-deck-chairs-on-the-titanic-and-they-absolutely-did-need-rearrangingEmily Flake
I Was In Charge of the Deck Chairs On the Titanic, and They Absolutely Did Need Rearranging
Quoted September 2, 2020]]>Wed, 2 Sep 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Let go or be dragged.]]>https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pathological-relationships/201205/let-go-or-be-draggedSandra L. Brown
Let Go or Be Dragged
Quoted August 24, 2020]]>Mon, 24 Aug 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Fluidity of memory and a capacity to forget is perhaps the most haunting trait of our species.]]>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/covid-19-end-of-american-era-wade-davis-1038206/Wade Davis
The Unraveling of America
Quoted August 6, 2020]]>Thu, 6 Aug 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If you paint stripes on a horse, it doesn’t become a zebra.]]>https://om.co/2020/06/30/why-microsoft-had-to-close-its-retail-stores/Om Malik
Why Microsoft had to close its retail stores
Quoted June 30, 2020]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Takeoffs are optional but landings are mandatory]]>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/how-white-house-coronavirus-response-went-wrong/613591/James Fallows
The Three Weeks That Changed Everything
Quoted June 29, 2020]]>Mon, 29 Jun 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Well begun is half done]]>https://forge.medium.com/33-things-i-stole-from-people-smarter-than-me-on-the-way-to-33-c38e368e5cb8Ryan Holiday
33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me
Quoted June 17, 2020]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[When someone tells you something is wrong, they’re almost always right. When someone tells you how to fix it, they’re almost always wrong.]]>https://forge.medium.com/33-things-i-stole-from-people-smarter-than-me-on-the-way-to-33-c38e368e5cb8Ryan Holiday
33 Things I Stole From People Smarter Than Me
Quoted June 17, 2020]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “The main thing that bothers me about Morse Code…” (laughter ensues for 10 minutes). There is more than 1 thing?]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted May 24, 2020]]>Sun, 24 May 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If whatever happened before the first episode were so interesting, the story would’ve started there instead.]]>https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/4/22/21230887/better-call-saul-season-5-prequelsBen Lindbergh
How ‘Better Call Saul’ Broke the Prequel Curse
Quoted April 22, 2020]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Focus groups would have thrown chairs at the two-way glass if asked about removing headphone jacks.]]>https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/04/21/market-for-small-phonesJohn Gruber
What Is the Market for Smaller than 4.7-inch Phones?
Quoted April 21, 2020]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Who’s paying your bills kind of pushes you in a certain direction.]]>https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/14/21136498/perry-bible-fellowship-nicholas-gurewitch-webcomic-dark-horseNicholas Gurewitch
Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch on making comics for the internet’s golden age
Quoted February 14, 2020]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[I sort of swore off deadlines because they seemed so hazardous to health. But in many ways, they’re helpful to mental health because you can be done with something.]]>https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/14/21136498/perry-bible-fellowship-nicholas-gurewitch-webcomic-dark-horseNicholas Gurewitch
Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch on making comics for the internet’s golden age
Quoted February 14, 2020]]>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[The best time to start a blog is 20 years ago. The second-best time is today.]]>https://inessential.com/2019/11/07/happy_20th_to_this_blog_Brent Simmons
inessential: Happy 20th to This Blog!
Quoted November 11, 2019]]>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Scientists who study gravity still fall down]]>https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/16/747332849/fresh-starts-guilty-pleasures-and-other-pro-tips-for-sticking-to-good-habitsL. Carol Ritchie
Fresh Starts, Guilty Pleasures And Other Pro Tips For Sticking To Good Habits
Quoted September 4, 2019]]>Wed, 4 Sep 2019 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[After every finish line, there is a starting line.]]>https://www.netflix.com/title/80198306Mauro Prosperi
Losers: Season 1: Lost in the Desert (Netflix)
Quoted May 25, 2019]]>Sat, 25 May 2019 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Design is a lot like physical fitness: everyone wants the outcome, no one wants to do the work.]]>https://medium.com/truthaboutdesign/ux-design-for-boring-companies-why-its-better-to-work-there-sometimes-9d6ab5fc3aa7Jamal Nichols
UX Design For “Boring” Companies: Why It’s Better To Work There (Sometimes)
Quoted May 15, 2019]]>Wed, 15 May 2019 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[It's one thing to buy a ticket, plop down in a box seat and take out your frustrations on some bum who hacks weakly at a curveball, but it's a wholly different thing to repeatedly kick a man when he's down.]]>https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2832023-chris-davis-and-how-to-break-a-major-league-slumpScott Miller
How to Break a Slump
Quoted April 23, 2019]]>Tue, 23 Apr 2019 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I am afraid of dying, sure, but so far, it hasn’t been an issue.]]>https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/Sarah Miller
Heaven or High Water
Quoted April 3, 2019]]>Wed, 3 Apr 2019 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Lying is not my favorite, but when it’s called for the only thing to do is jump in with both feet.]]>https://popula.com/2019/04/02/heaven-or-high-water/Sarah Miller
Heaven or High Water
Quoted April 3, 2019]]>Wed, 3 Apr 2019 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[They didn’t have a guinea pig mirror at the pet shop. I suggested maybe they have one for dogs or cats that would work, and Madi says “dogs don’t need mirrors — they already know they’re all that”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted March 4, 2019]]>Mon, 4 Mar 2019 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[At dinner, Madi keeps finding little bones in her salmon, and is getting frustrated/concerned. Charli chimes in: “You know what they say… ‘Fish got bones!’”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted January 15, 2019]]>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.]]>https://matthewstrom.com/writing/who-are-design-systems-for.htmlMatthew Strom
Who Are Design Systems For?
Quoted December 15, 2018]]>Sat, 15 Dec 2018 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[It looks and feels wrong in a great way, in a way that a more technically accomplished director could never hope to achieve]]>https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/12/5/18124195/cabin-boy-chris-elliott-anniversary-adam-resnick-comedy-get-a-lifeMichael Tedder
This Is Just So Sh**ty, We Gotta Watch
Quoted December 7, 2018]]>Fri, 7 Dec 2018 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Case went to John, the bartender, and said, “I don’t understand. There are only two ingredients in a martini. What’s special about yours?” John said, “Oh. You have to make it with love.”]]>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/28/theater/david-mamet-ricky-jay.htmlDavid Mamet
David Mamet on Ricky Jay, a Great Astonisher and ‘Truest Friend’
Quoted November 29, 2018]]>Thu, 29 Nov 2018 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[I wouldn’t have taken a million dollars not to have known him. But I’d give a million not to know another one like him.]]>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/secrets-of-the-magusMark Singer
Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets
Quoted November 26, 2018]]>Mon, 26 Nov 2018 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Is there a way to celebrate a place without the possibility of destroying it? Or is this just what we are now -- a horde with a checklist and a camera phone, intent on self-producing the destruction of anything left that feels real, one Instagram story at a time?]]>https://www.thrillist.com/eat/portland/stanichs-closed-will-it-reopen-burger-questKevin Alexander
I Found the Best Burger Place in America. And Then I Killed It.
Quoted November 16, 2018]]>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Talking at the dinner table about chow mein noodles which were labeled as “improved taste”. Ashley: they don’t really have a taste, they’re just crunchy. Charli: Yes, they do have taste. Oh my god, do they have taste.]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted November 7, 2018]]>Wed, 7 Nov 2018 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Your words carry a lot of weight. But your testimony speaks so much louder when you struggle.]]>https://www.si.com/mlb/2018/09/24/chris-davis-baltimore-oriolesStephanie Apstein
Orioles' Chris Davis talks about his season-long struggles
Quoted October 24, 2018]]>Wed, 24 Oct 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[But timing always matters. And you can’t do anything about it. It’s almost like the trick is hanging around long enough that your time is right.]]>https://www.gq.com/story/how-jackbox-changed-the-party-game-foreverScott Meslow
How Jackbox Changed the Party Game Forever
Quoted October 17, 2018]]>Wed, 17 Oct 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I guess there came a time, and I missed it, when revealing everything started to be considered art. I’d always learned that concealing everything was art.]]>http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/norm-macdonald-in-conversation.htmlDavid Marchese
Norm Macdonald, In Conversation
Quoted September 26, 2018]]>Wed, 26 Sep 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Scene: Sunday night, Fallon family car. Been out all day, everyone is hungry, still need to make a trip to the grocery store. Madi: “What’s a good dinner cereal?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted August 27, 2018]]>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[“I told him I was in a storage room, and it was loud because there was a band downstairs,” he says. “He said, ‘They’re playing a Pearl Jam song.’ I told him, ‘That IS Pearl Jam.’ ”]]>https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/pearl-jams-hall-of-fame-career-began-in-a-seattle-basement/Bill Reader
The story of Pearl Jam, from a Seattle basement to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Quoted August 6, 2018]]>Mon, 6 Aug 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The camera crew listened patiently to his rambling story, silently recognizing the inconsequential details found in stories told by liars.]]>https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an-ex-cop-rigged-mcdonalds-monopoly-game-and-stole-millionsJeff Maysh
How an Ex-Cop Rigged McDonald’s Monopoly Game and Stole Millions
Quoted July 31, 2018]]>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[In fact, as I wrote this article I realized just how far the iMac’s design legacy has gone. My family owns a bright blue first-generation Nissan Leaf. I realize now that for the last year I’ve been driving around an iMac G3.]]>https://sixcolors.com/post/2018/05/the-original-imac-20-years-since-apple-changed-its-fate/Jason Snell
The original iMac: 20 years since Apple changed its fate
Quoted May 6, 2018]]>Sun, 6 May 2018 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If I have a pie, and I fill it with dirt and put a slice of apple in it, it does not make it an apple pie]]>http://skepticproject.com/articles/zeitgeist/The New World Order
Zeitgeist, the movie Debunked - Introduction - Zeitgeist Exposed - Skeptic Project
Quoted November 18, 2017]]>Sat, 18 Nov 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Nowadays, companies hang flat screen TVs hanging on the walls, all them running 24/7 to display a variety of charts. Most everyone ignores them. The spirit is right, to be transparent all the time, but the understanding of human nature is not. We ignore things that are shown to us all the time.]]>http://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2017/11/13/remove-the-legendEugene Wei
Remove the legend to become one
Quoted November 15, 2017]]>Wed, 15 Nov 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[We have built a world which operates at scale, where human oversight is simply impossible, and no manner of inhuman oversight will counter most of the examples I’ve used in this essay.]]>https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2James Bridle
Something is wrong on the internet – James Bridle – Medium
Quoted November 7, 2017]]>Tue, 7 Nov 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Our culture might be a corpse, and everything you see in it and confuse for life might just be the nails and hair of the corpse still expanding after death.]]>https://www.sbnation.com/2017/8/25/16200620/floyd-mayweather-conor-mcgregor-spectacle-sportSpencer Hall
Mayweather-McGregor and the death spiral of American sports
Quoted August 26, 2017]]>Sat, 26 Aug 2017 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Am I the man who falls out of a skyscraper, and as he passes the second storey, says, ‘So far, so good?’]]>http://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/28/is-the-world-really-better-than-ever-the-new-optimistsOliver Burkeman
Is the world really better than ever?
Quoted July 28, 2017]]>Fri, 28 Jul 2017 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[There wasn’t really time to kick your feet back on the desk and say, ‘This is going to be really fucking awesome one day.’ It was like, ‘Holy fuck, we’re fucked.’]]>https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/13/15782200/one-device-secret-history-iphone-brian-merchant-book-excerptBrian Merchant
The secret origin story of the iPhone
Quoted June 15, 2017]]>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Now, I’m no fan of death. I don't like the time commitment, or the permanence. A number of people I love are dead and it has strained our relationship.]]>http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htmMaciej Cegłowski
Notes From An Emergency
Quoted June 5, 2017]]>Mon, 5 Jun 2017 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Tech culture prefers to solve harder, more abstract problems that haven't been sullied by contact with reality. So they worry about how to give Mars an earth-like climate, rather than how to give Earth an earth-like climate]]>http://idlewords.com/talks/notes_from_an_emergency.htmMaciej Cegłowski
Notes From An Emergency
Quoted June 5, 2017]]>Mon, 5 Jun 2017 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The problem with connecting everyone on the planet is that a lot of people are assholes.]]>https://www.buzzfeed.com/mathonan/climbing-out-of-facebooks-reality-holeMat Honan
Climbing Out Of Facebook's Reality Hole
Quoted April 20, 2017]]>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I said, “Harry, pretty soon I’m not going to have a job. I’m retiring. But everything will be the same.” And he said, “Will I still get to watch the Cartoon Network?” That was his concern about my retirement.]]>http://www.vulture.com/2017/03/david-letterman-in-conversation.htmlDavid Marchese
In Conversation: David Letterman
Quoted March 6, 2017]]>Mon, 6 Mar 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Grandma Melinda: “Whoa Charli, you’re really into those oranges.” Charli: “Somebody’s not gettin’ scurvy!”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted March 5, 2017]]>Sun, 5 Mar 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[A survey commissioned by National Geographic found that forty per cent of Americans believed that stocking up on supplies or building a bomb shelter was a wiser investment than a 401(k).]]>http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/30/doomsday-prep-for-the-super-richEvan Osnos
Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich
Quoted January 30, 2017]]>Mon, 30 Jan 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Of course his shirt’s top couple buttons were undone and his tie was askew and his whole just general appearance made it look like he’d been rolled down a hill, because Stan Van Gundy always looks like he’s just been rolled down a hill]]>https://theringer.com/dwyane-wade-is-even-better-than-you-think-he-is-de34f9639fd0#.kodmgwvcyShea Serrano
Dwyane Wade Is Even Better Than You Think He Is – The Ringer
Quoted January 19, 2017]]>Thu, 19 Jan 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Diversity is insurance of the mind.]]>https://medium.com/personal-growth/isaac-asimov-how-to-never-run-out-of-ideas-again-b7bf8e09cc91#.e9plvz3baCharles Chu
Isaac Asimov: How to Never Run Out of Ideas Again – Personal Growth – Medium
Quoted January 5, 2017]]>Thu, 5 Jan 2017 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[For the bullshitter, it doesn’t really matter if he is right or wrong. What matters is that you’re paying attention.]]>https://aeon.co/ideas/why-bullshit-is-no-laughing-matterGordon Pennycook
Why bullshit is no laughing matter – Gordon Pennycook | Aeon Ideas
Quoted December 30, 2016]]>Fri, 30 Dec 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[On a scale of 1 to 10, the attention to detail on an average job is about an 8. For Apple it was 100, just off-the-charts, unprecedented attention to detail. Should the sleeves be rolled up twice or three times? Should the jeans come in at the bottom just a half-an-inch? Are those shoelaces off-putting?]]>http://www.campaignlive.com/article/oral-history-get-mac-part-1/1417003Joan Voight
An oral history of 'Get a Mac,' Part 1
Quoted December 14, 2016]]>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Steve's one of those guys that can argue both sides of the same argument in the same paragraph and convince you twice.]]>http://www.campaignlive.com/article/oral-history-get-mac-part-1/1417003Joan Voight
An oral history of 'Get a Mac,' Part 1
Quoted December 14, 2016]]>Wed, 14 Dec 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Me: “Is it Ur-anus or Ura-nus?” Charli: “Either, but Ur-anus is more embarrassing.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted December 11, 2016]]>Sun, 11 Dec 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[But this is prizefighting, where every concussive blow a boxer lands on his opponent can be seen as a brief lesson in moral relativity.]]>http://deadspin.com/sergey-kovalev-isnt-a-gangster-hes-russian-1789091258Rafe Bartholomew
Sergey Kovalev Isn't A Gangster; He's Russian
Quoted November 18, 2016]]>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[An ark is useless until it has a place to make landfall.]]>http://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-frozen-zoo-that-could-bring-extinct-animals-back-to-lifeZach Baron
Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life
Quoted November 14, 2016]]>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[The same brutal, merciless ingenuity that we bring to ruining the world is the exact same ingenuity applied by the scientists working at the Frozen Zoo and elsewhere, poised at the horizon of existence, willfully pulling our animal brethren back from the edge]]>http://www.gq.com/story/inside-the-frozen-zoo-that-could-bring-extinct-animals-back-to-lifeZach Baron
Inside the Frozen Zoo That Could Bring Extinct Animals Back to Life
Quoted November 14, 2016]]>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[So the very things that appeal to people about him are the opposite of most sports TV does. It's like we can't get enough of this, and we can't stop doing the exact opposite.]]>http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17595432/the-man-voice-storiesJayson Stark
The man and the voice: An oral history of Vin Scully's career
Quoted September 28, 2016]]>Wed, 28 Sep 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[But just as modern street lighting has slowly blotted the stars from the visible skies, so too have cars and planes and factories and flickering digital screens combined to rob us of a silence that was previously regarded as integral to the health of the human imagination.]]>http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.htmlAndrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
Quoted September 21, 2016]]>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Yes, online and automated life is more efficient, it makes more economic sense, it ends monotony and “wasted” time in the achievement of practical goals. But it denies us the deep satisfaction and pride of workmanship that comes with accomplishing daily tasks well, a denial perhaps felt most acutely by those for whom such tasks are also a livelihood — and an identity.]]>http://nymag.com/selectall/2016/09/andrew-sullivan-technology-almost-killed-me.htmlAndrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan: My Distraction Sickness — and Yours
Quoted September 21, 2016]]>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[A/B testing is a lifetime subscription to Humble Pie Magazine.]]>https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/ab-testing-storyPatrick McKenzie
An A/B Testing Story
Quoted September 20, 2016]]>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[You can get better, no matter how good you are, if you do the work — tirelessly, relentlessly and with a profound and abiding belief that what you are doing matters.]]>http://www.eod.com/blog/2016/09/the-last-epiphany/Greg Knauss
An Entirely Other Day: The Last Epiphany
Quoted September 19, 2016]]>Mon, 19 Sep 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Is it possible that parkour, with its emphasis on agility and creativity instead of bulk and brute force, is really the tightest link we have in sports to our evolutionary past?]]>http://www.outsideonline.com/1928756/sitting-wrecks-your-body-more-standing-isnt-solutionChristopher McDougall
Sitting Wrecks Your Body. More Standing Isn't the Solution.
Quoted August 19, 2016]]>Fri, 19 Aug 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “I don’t like Peanut M&Ms. I like peanuts, and M&Ms.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted August 10, 2016]]>Wed, 10 Aug 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The more a designer understands how the business works, the more valuable they will be to employers.]]>http://99u.com/articles/54058/the-future-of-design-and-how-to-prepare-for-itMatt McCue
The Future of Design (and how to prepare for it)
Quoted July 22, 2016]]>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If you want to put your trust in people who want something from you, go ahead. But don’t act shocked when you get bullshit in return.]]>http://www.theplayerstribune.com/gary-sheffield-where-im-coming-from/Gary Sheffield
Where I’m Coming From
Quoted July 15, 2016]]>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[We should not listen to people who promise to make Mars safe for human habitation, until we have seen them make Oakland safe for human habitation.]]>http://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htmMaciej Cegłowski
Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech
Quoted July 4, 2016]]>Mon, 4 Jul 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The dust-gathering 3D printers, soon to be joined by dust-gathering VR headsets, are symbolic.]]>http://blog.marvelapp.com/state-of-the-digital-nation-2016/Jules Ehrhardt
State of the Digital Nation 2016
Quoted May 23, 2016]]>Mon, 23 May 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The way technology works is that by default, it stands still, and it moves forward only when something pushes it forward.]]>http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/06/how-tesla-will-change-your-life.htmlTim Urban
How Tesla Will Change The World - Wait But Why
Quoted March 27, 2016]]>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[From way out here, it hits you that we’re living in a phase—a sad little window that an intelligent species inevitably passes through, when they’re advanced enough to understand their own mortality, but still too primitive to save themselves from it]]>http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.htmlTim Urban
Why Cryonics Makes Sense - Wait But Why
Quoted March 24, 2016]]>Thu, 24 Mar 2016 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Do you think we’re headed toward a future where we’re only going to be talking about weird, very hard to forecast events, precisely because we get good at avoiding a lot of problems and mistakes?]]>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/nate-silver-conversations-with-tyler-1bdafe685d77#.6slxqosjyMercatus Center
A Conversation with Nate Silver — Conversations with Tyler — Medium
Quoted February 23, 2016]]>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[I think a lot of people have one or two really good insights, and if you’re very lucky that can take you a long way.]]>https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/nate-silver-conversations-with-tyler-1bdafe685d77#.6slxqosjyMercatus Center
A Conversation with Nate Silver — Conversations with Tyler — Medium
Quoted February 23, 2016]]>Tue, 23 Feb 2016 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Trying to decide what we want for dinner and Charli says: “I feel like Italian – home of the carb”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted November 27, 2015]]>Fri, 27 Nov 2015 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.]]>https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/Maria Popova
An Antidote to the Age of Anxiety: Alan Watts on Happiness and How to Live with Presence
Quoted November 13, 2015]]>Fri, 13 Nov 2015 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[To be emotional is to attach yourself to something you value supremely but don’t fully control. To be passionate is to put yourself in danger]]>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/opinion/lady-gaga-and-the-life-of-passion.html?nytmobile=0David Brooks
Lady Gaga and the Life of Passion - NYTimes.com
Quoted October 31, 2015]]>Sat, 31 Oct 2015 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Setting up the Roomba, trying to decide on a name for it. Charli: “Is it a boy or a girl?” Madi: “I dunno, did you look?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted August 16, 2015]]>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The light at the end of the tunnel is just the world on fire.]]>http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/true-detective-season-2-episode-8-omega-station/Chris Ryan
‘True Detective,’ Season 2, Episode 8: ‘Omega Station’
Quoted August 10, 2015]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2015 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[You make people happier not by giving them more options but by stripping them away.]]>http://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/Cliff Kuang
Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband
Quoted July 18, 2015]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2015 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[When everything works, the reader flashes green and emits a pleasing tone; if something goes wrong, it glows blue—never red. Red lights are forbidden at Disney, as they imply something bad happened. Nothing bad can happen at Disney World.]]>http://www.wired.com/2015/03/disney-magicband/Cliff Kuang
Disney’s $1 Billion Bet on a Magical Wristband
Quoted July 18, 2015]]>Sat, 18 Jul 2015 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Overheard in Venice: “It’s the world, bro – people lie.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted June 12, 2015]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I like tasks that are on the cusp of being achievable.]]>https://www.vice.com/en/article/vvb3pb/nicholas-felton-quantified-literally-everything-he-said-in-2013Nicholas Felton
Nicholas Felton Quantified Literally Every Conversation He Had in 2013
Quoted August 20, 2014]]>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Me: “Free Birds got an 18% on rotten tomatoes”. Madi: “I knew it was gonna be bad… too many fart jokes in the trailer”.]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted March 15, 2014]]>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Sometimes it’s no good to be too humble. Sometimes it’s no good to be too egocentric. So what has happened is, I took him down, he pulled me up, and we met in the middle. That is Siegfried & Roy.]]>http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2013/oct/03/siegfried-roy-int/John Katsilometes
Siegfried and Roy, 10 Years Later
Quoted October 21, 2013]]>Mon, 21 Oct 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “Ooooh, a “tripod”? What is that, 3 iPods?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted September 29, 2013]]>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli’s favorite saying lately: “I’m not arguing, I’m just making points”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted August 13, 2013]]>Tue, 13 Aug 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Part of a conversation Madi and Charli actually had: “Don’t ever ask a woman how old she is. You could ask a female dog, though”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted June 6, 2013]]>Thu, 6 Jun 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli-ism (replying to the statement “ah, that’s nothin”): “It’s something… but it’s not nothing”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted June 6, 2013]]>Thu, 6 Jun 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli-ism: “There’s only two ways to find out”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted June 6, 2013]]>Thu, 6 Jun 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[If the seams have been covered, you can’t admire how things connect.]]>http://frankchimero.com/blog/2013/03/the-cloud-is-heavy-and-design-isnt-invisible/Frank Chimero
The Cloud is Heavy and Design Isn't Invisible
Quoted March 14, 2013]]>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “5 is my unlucky number. It just doesn’t look smart.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted February 12, 2013]]>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Charli: “I love dominoes, they’re so clappy”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted January 31, 2013]]>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Me: “I bet by the time you’re old enough to vote you’ll be able to vote on the internet.” Madi: “Yeah, or just hand my vote to a robot”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted November 6, 2012]]>Tue, 6 Nov 2012 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Charli: “Dad, did you know that baseball is interesting to me for 5 minutes?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted October 14, 2012]]>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[I’d say every designer should design a clock at some point.]]>http://dewith.com/2012/an-android-design-process/Sebastiaan de With
Awakenings: An Android Design Process
Quoted July 20, 2012]]>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “Dad, have you played Monopoly before?” Me: “Yes.” Charli: “Then how come you have no money?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted July 12, 2012]]>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[RT @PearlJam: “The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.” - Pete Sampras]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted June 28, 2012]]>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Talking about Guy Fieri w/ Madi – “Wait, that's his real name?” I say yes & she says “Really? Like, when he was born his mom named him Guy?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted March 26, 2012]]>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Madi, as we drive by a retirement home: “it's kind of like an orphanage for old people”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted March 10, 2012]]>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Happiness is the most important metric in personal technology. If it improves lives, it is important.]]>http://thewirecutter.com/2012/01/happiness-takes-a-little-magic/Brian Lam
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic
Quoted January 28, 2012]]>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Madi: why can't I see the lint on your shirt now? Me: a black light made it show up before Madi: what? that would just be a light turned off]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted January 2, 2012]]>Mon, 2 Jan 2012 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Madi: “Why don't restaurants have clocks in them? That's my biggest issue.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted December 10, 2011]]>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Madi: “Dogs make you happy. Cats make you... Eh.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted November 11, 2011]]>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[I think that you can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you.]]>https://the-talks.com/interviews/nick-hornby/Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby - The Talks
Quoted October 6, 2011]]>Thu, 6 Oct 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Stop. Pull everything together into a single stack, take a breath, and enjoy the work. We’re not tarring roofs in 100° heat. We get to build for the web, and life is wonderful.]]>https://trentwalton.com/2011/09/20/unitasking/Trent Walton
Unitasking
Quoted September 20, 2011]]>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[The DirecTV screensaver just bounced off the corner of the screen PERFECTLY. No better way to punctuate a great vacation.]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted August 15, 2011]]>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Me: “I wonder what cell phones will be like when you're a teenager.” Madi: “I bet they'll be awesome, like 'Phineas & Ferb' awesome.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted July 2, 2011]]>Sat, 2 Jul 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[We make in the hope that what we produce can carry us somewhere better, to a place more satisfactory. If we can do this for ourselves, we are lucky. When we are able to do so for others, we are tending towards glory.]]>Frank Chimero
Quoted June 20, 2011]]>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “Dad, did you know that work is fun?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted May 29, 2011]]>Sun, 29 May 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[My 5 year old daughter informed me the male seahorse carries the eggs, and I had to pretend I didn't already learn that from @JimGaffigan]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted May 18, 2011]]>Wed, 18 May 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Madi: “Dad, did Mom make dinner or did you make dinner?” Me: “Mom.” Madi: “Good.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted May 9, 2011]]>Mon, 9 May 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[In every kind of creative endeavor – and great technology is indeed a form of creative expression – there’s a difference between real art and mere technical competence. It’s impossible to quantify but which everybody can intuit it almost instantly.]]>http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/4251092-452/ipad-2-release-spells-a-bleak-2011-for-other-tablet-makers.htmlAndy Ihnatko
iPad 2 Release Spells a Bleak 2011 for Other Tablet Makers
Quoted March 15, 2011]]>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli: “Here's the thing. If someone is mean to you, be nice to them. That's what I tell people at school.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted January 13, 2011]]>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Madi, looking at a caramel coffee poster: “Look at that caramel, they're like cubes of happiness.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted November 16, 2010]]>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[Eating Cocoa Puffs, designing a web page, and listening to Willie Nelson. Am I 10, 30, or 60 years old?]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted October 7, 2010]]>Thu, 7 Oct 2010 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Ashley: “Wait, is Spiderman a spider or does he fight spiders?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted September 28, 2010]]>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Charli noticed me on the iPad and said, “Hey Dad, it's your big phone”.]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted September 18, 2010]]>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Ashley (trying to get Charli to do a paint spin art thing): “Come on, try it — it's fun.” Charli: “I'll tell you what's fun — movies.”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted June 23, 2010]]>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Sometimes a design isn’t working because you think you can’t change the one element that needs to be changed.]]>https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2369-sometimes-a-design-isnt-working-becauseRyan Singer
Signal v. Noise
Quoted May 31, 2010]]>Mon, 31 May 2010 0:00:00 PDT<![CDATA[Madi, watching Brian Boitano: “Why are they cheering? Do they think this is his first time ice skating?”]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted December 30, 2009]]>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 0:00:00 PST<![CDATA[According to Madi, the opposite of Rickey Henderson is Ducky Benderson.]]>Josh Fallon
Quoted July 25, 2009]]>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 0:00:00 PDT