I know. Crazy talk, right?
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It's crunch time. The little hack you made mostly works but cracks are appearing. You can see it's got legs, but is it time to throw it away and start again properly?
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I wrote earlier in the year about "What gets done is what gets done". A topic to be revisited and discussed further
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It's all a bit too much. This idea worked when there were only a few to deal with. Now we suffer from overflowing inboxes of notifications that may or may not be important. What to do?
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The shifting modes of making—personal and collaborative
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I'm bullish about London as a startup scene.
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My six-year-old daughter came home this week telling me that "Jesus is real" and "he died on the cross for us". Not cool. She can make up her mind when she's grown up if she likes…
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We all work at different times. How can you ensure there's a good rhythm to the working environment?
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Seek generalists, be diverse, build a team based on resourceful humans, not human resources.
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Can startup people learn anything from the basic ideas in children's books?
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The opposite of robust. The kind of code you need to learn to write. It works for now, and that's all that matters.
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"Oh, busy". "Good thanks, how are you". Opportunity missed. This week I replied to a friend, after a short pause, with a surprising "optimum".
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This would be a bit of a tough post – I've not got this right yet. The balance of "got to do this little idea" and "spend time with the people that matter" is difficult.
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I've been doing this recently. I ask someone I trust and respect about something, and they sometimes they tell me something that doesn't sit well with me. In the past I'd have disagreed and said "you're wrong", but now I put that to one side, and I really, really, listen. And then sometimes I act based on that listening. Interesting things have been happening…
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Not really mistakes – just things you've made that aren't quite the right thing. It turns out they're useful…
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I was chatting to my friend Mike about turning the thing you love into the thing you do for a living. Sometimes that's a bad idea!
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Each time I blog, I'm interested in who responds. I'm used to my blog being a dead-zone, but because of Medium I've found a hundred or two hundred people respond in some way. Either with a tweet, a "recommend" or (rarely) a comment.
I've written a little tool that helps me make a Twitter list of those people each time I blog. Could connecting people up around blog posts be an interesting discovery tool for people who want to find others with similar passions?
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This is our principle at Makeshift. What does it mean and how are we applying it?
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It's such a pain getting a file onto a server, resizing it if it's an image and then presenting it to the user. If you're using Heroku there are all sorts of gotchas. I learnt the hard way whilst making a lovely image upload experience for http://bitsy.io so I would share the experience and real world production code.
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At Do Lectures we used Artefact Cards - tiny business-card sized cards to do the UX for the hacks we made. It kept it small - maybe there's something in it.
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At Makeshift we're trying to pick a set of technologies we'll use to build our apps. What's in the shortlist?
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I keep having this conversation. What's the best way to answer it?
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It's the bit after the hack, just before the "start up", where you strike up a conversation with users. Is your idea any good?
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"Getting good at getting fast" has been my principle for the last couple of years. I'll write a little about the tech I use to keep the speed up.
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