This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. …
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Scalability
MacBook Air
Instagram | Flickr
Dan Catt, who fell in love with Instagram just a little bit, and out of love with Flickr, just a little bit over the holidays: Christmas morning was almost magical. The previous year on Flickr was almost as magical, once people had a chance to sort through the 100s of photos they’d taken with their …
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Dubstep
Labeling the Back button
iTunes
Fight your way through
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, …