Distraction free environments are all the rage. Or at least writing about them is. Do you know what is a real distraction? A system meltdown. I don't consider the fuel gauge in my car a distraction. I don't consider my smoke detector a distraction. They are all about reducing consequences and preventing larger distractions. They are about priorities.
When I am deep into a problem, my desktop is not visible or is set to plain black.
The Verge has a short interview with one of the Growl developers. It's a nice interview with a couple of questions about Growl and a bunch of general tech questions. I good read.
Peter N. Lewis (the creator of Keyboard Maestro) is on MacVoices discussing his new application Bookle.
From Frankentosh
You're welcome.
Ass Hole
I just wanted to join the bandwagon of putting profanity in my titles. All the cool kids are doing it now.
From James Altucher
Good article about opinions on the Internet.
My dad had a saying: Opinions are like ass-holes. Everyone has one and no one thinks theirs stink.
It's not hard, but archiving a seven year old GMail account can be time consuming:
By way of Kottke.org.
Sometimes I see something that makes me stop and appreciate how truly impressive the human mind is.
Ben Brooks provides a succinct editorial of theNYT article on what a "Pivot" is. I see his point. What really bothers me is that a pivot is not a new concept, it's just a new junk-word.
When I was a kid, there was a coffee shop on one of the corners that seemed to undergo a transformation every year. First it was just a coffee shop. Then it was a clone of a Winchell's donuts.
James Hague has an interesting article about the technology of Spellcheckers (by way of Jonathan Christopher). It’s a nice insight.
I remember my first word processor with popup suggestions. It was a shareware application I bought on a 5 & 1/4 floppy from a bin of shareware at a swap-meet in Orange County. Being a young student, I loved the feature. As I typed, the application would popup suggestions for words.
