#randsinrepose

[peoplepersonperson-blog]

Amaze your nerd. Build calm and dark places where invoking the Zone is trivial. Perform consistently and efficiently around your nerd so they can spend their energy on what they build and not worry about that which they can’t control. Help them scale by knowing when they’re stuck or simply bored. And let them chase those Highs because then they can amaze everyone.

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/managing-nerds/    I can't get over how on point this article is. I'm laughing and crying at once

[yearofcreativehabits]

[elliottpesut]

Rands, who is quite possibly one of my favorite writers, penned one of the best New Year's appeals about how we should spend our "moments" in 2014. 

He begins:

I don’t know what cascading chemical awesomeness is going down in my brain when it detects and rewards me for the act of building, but I’m certain that the hormonal cocktail is the end result of millions of years of evolution. Part of the reason we’re at the top of the food chain is that we are chemically rewarded when we are industrious – it is evolutionarily advantageous to be productive. 

Here's the problem:

... [W]e’re slowly and deviously being trained to forget this.

Do yourself a favor and read his post.

[noisymime]

This New Year, I wish you more blank slates. May you have more blank white pages sitting in front you with your favorite pen nearby and at the ready. May you have blank screens in your code editor with your absolutely favorite color syntax highlighting. May your garage work table be empty save for a single large piece of reclaimed redwood and a saw. Turn off those notifications, turn your phone over, turn on your favorite music, stare at your blank slate and consider what you might build. In that moment of consideration, you’re making an important decision: create or consume? The things we’re giving to the future are feeling increasingly unintentional and irrelevant. They are half-considered thoughts of others. When you choose to create, you’re bucking the trend because you’re choosing to take the time to build. And that’s a great way to start the year.

Michael Lopp, "The Builder's High"

[nikaharper]

"Don’t worry if someone else is already working on your idea. I’m certain they are, but they are decidedly not you and it’s the you that makes your idea unique." -@Rands

rands, 2009 http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/10/02/hurry.html

[precarioustumblr]

Innovation is a Fight

>Apple is eventually doomed. Yes, the most valuable company on the planet will slowly fade into stagnant mediocrity. It will be replaced by something that they will not predict and they will not see coming. This horrifically efficient culling is a fact of life in technology because it is an industry populated by a demographic intent not on building a better mousetrap, but who avidly ask, “Why the hell do we need mousetraps?” Via [rands](http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2012/11/11/innovation_is_a_fight.html).

[lab241]

Folks, I’m a nerd. I need rapid fire content delivery in short, clever, punch phrases. Give me Coupland, give me Calvin’n’Hobbes, give me Asimov, give me The Watchmen. I need this type of content because I’m horribly afflicted with NADD.

Rands In Repose: N.A.D.D.