- russell davies: death to innovation
Yes. Very much this. Spend as much time and money on ensuring you meet the basic minimums your customers expect as you do on innovation. Do this on a *ongoing* basis. Revisit what you've already build. Spend money on building it again, better.
Author Archives: Alasdair
Links for Thursday September 26th 2013
- buger/gor · GitHub
This is a tool that will take traffic that's hitting your live server, and replay it against other environments – effectively conducting as-live testing against other systems. This could be very useful indeed. - Lyke-Wake Dirge – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I turned this up a few years back, and then forgot about it. I have uses for it, and don't want to forget again.
Links for Wednesday September 25th 2013
- Frank Chimero × Blog × The Inferno of Independence
This is some utterly splendid writing on, well, I guess it's on work, creativity, and loneliness.
Links for Tuesday September 24th 2013
- View Park Sloper walletpen by OneStarLeatherGoods on Etsy
Quite tempted by one of these – a bit bigger than I like my wallet to be, but I like the idea of being able to keep a Field Notes notebook in there without it getting dog eared.
Links for Sunday September 22nd 2013
- Shahr-e Sukhteh – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh, how I *wish* I'd known about this about six months ago. Still, filed for later.
Links for Friday September 20th 2013
- Elephant cognition – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elephants are jut awesome. - Scientific proof that creative people have messy desks | Business News | Business and Finance News | | Herald Sun
Vindicated at last!
Links for Thursday September 19th 2013
- Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Apparently, You Can Make Beer In Your Gut : The Salt : NPR
Weird and funny, although not, I imagine, if it happens to you.
Links for Wednesday September 18th 2013
- Another Lifeless Planet Found
A beautiful slice of perfectly bleak writing.
Links for Monday September 16th 2013
Links for Monday July 29th 2013
- What is the best horror story you can come up with in two sentences. : AskReddit
Some of these are particularly good.