I also disagree with the widespread notion that comments are “discussion”, or that they form a “community”. Discussion and communities require mechanics such as listening and following up that are rarely present in comments. Marco Arment
[...] Not just that people said these positive things about themselves, but they really, really believed them. Which led to my observation: if you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent. New York Times Opinionator
I found this via Josh Porter at Bokardo, The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is Part 1
Jonathan Christopher has written a great piece entitled Is it now acceptable to require JavaScript?. In this article he asks many intriguing questions about the direction our industry has moved in regards to the toolsets. With larger players like Google and Apple requiring JavaScript, are we simply back in the days of petty This is best experienced with messages?
Are we to a point where leading Web companies care more about dollars and cents than users? Jonathan Christopher
Without elaborating any more, head on over to the article and read for yourself - there are plenty of good questions to make you think.
The problem with using time as your lever for success is that it doesn't scale very well. 20 hours a day at work is not twice as good as 18, and you certainly can't go much beyond 24...
What would happen if you were prohibited from working more than five hours a day. What would you do? How would you use those five hours to become indispensable in a different way?
Go ahead, try it. Just for a week. See what happens. Even if you go back to ten, you'll discover you've changed the way you compete. Seth Godin
Title says it all, just watch.