苏轼 - 江城子

陶渊明以正月五日游斜川⑵，临流班坐⑶，顾瞻南阜⑷，爱曾城之独秀⑸，乃作斜川诗⑹，至今使人想见其处。元丰壬戌之春⑺，余躬耕于东坡⑻，筑雪堂居之，南挹四望亭之后丘⑼，西控北山之微泉，慨然而叹，此亦斜川之游也。乃作长短句⑽，以《江城子》歌之。

梦中了了醉中醒。只渊明，是前生。走遍人间，依旧却躬耕。昨夜东坡春雨足，乌鹊喜，报新晴。

雪堂西畔暗泉鸣。北山倾，小溪横。南望亭丘，孤秀耸曾城。都是斜川当日景，吾老矣，寄余龄。

Everybody is a genius

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

The enemy of a startup is everyone else's life

The enemy of a startup is everyone else's life - Brian Chesky

George Lucas talking about biggest lesson he learned from Coppola

"Look, when you write a script, just go as fast as you can. Just get it done. Don't ever read what you've written. Try to get it done in a week or two, then go back and fix it, and then go back through as fast as you can, and then go back and fix it – you just keep fixing it. But if you try to make each page perfect, you'll never get beyond page 10."

看看手机里照片装裱后的样子

中国大陆的app store 链接

Hope

I find I'm so excited that I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. A free man at a start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

- From Shawshank Redemption

What Do Animal Think and Feel

See Your Photo Through FrameIt AR

After more than 18 months of struggle, my app FrameIt AR finally hit the App Store.

Focus is About Decision Making

This is from a talk Don Melton gave at NSNorth 2014. Don manages the Safari team at Apple for 10 years and is responsible for creating the Webkit project. His angle gives a better insight on why focus is so much easier to say than done.

One thing that always impressed me about Apple, one thing that Steve brought to the company, some say with a vengeance upon his return, was a narrow, bright beam of attention and effort on what really mattered most, and a single-minded will to iterate and iterate and iterate and iterate until we fucking got it right.
I look at other organizations who just throw shit at the wall, beta after beta after beta, sometimes looking up to see what sticks. Or those that make scores of slightly different devices, hundreds of configurations, that even they can’t tell apart, let alone their customers. And of course, I don’t see focus there. Because focus is hard, because it’s about making decisions. Decisions that have consequences, decisions that change things, decisions that change people. And some companies and some people don’t want to make those hard decisions. Because that takes courage.
If there’s one thing about Apple you should emulate in your business and your life, it’s not the innovation everybody talks about. It’s the focus that makes it possible.

climate change

Saw a bumper sticker today says I believe in climate change. These days people polling and voting for everything. I believe next time congress will have a statement like this:

The vote does not pass 2/3, therefore this year's climate change is canceled.

No Title

To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a thumb

Less Is More

Once you reach a decent level of professional success, lack of opportunity won’t kill you. It’s drowning in 7-out-of-10 “cool” commitments that will sink the ship.

Nicely put by Tim Ferris in his blogpost.

浪淘沙－过七里泷 夏承焘

万象挂空明，短篷摇梦过江城。可惜层楼无铁笛，负我诗成。 杯酒劝长庚，高咏谁听？当头河汉任纵横。一雁不飞钟未动，只有滩声。

Design Flaw or Design Opportunity

I'm amazed by the thinking behind the tiny change to the toothbrush. And this is a true example of no details is too small. Don't always blame marketing or senior executives. There are things totally lie in designers' hands. Design responsibly. This video originally appeared on Story Hopper.

Value your work, even it's shit

Back in the pre internet days I was a young college teacher and did many small design projects as my side work. Some of them looked fancier than others. So I kept the good looking ones (meaning with fancy presentation such as an airbrush painted interior design drawing, a computer rendered telephone etc). There were stuff that I really put into my time and sweat to build with my hands. But they looked a little rough and I was somewhat disappointed by the turnout. So I was a little ashamed to include those in my portfolio. After almost 20 years, I couldn't even find a lousy photo of the models I made. They are gone without a trace.

It turns out, those ones, the ones that I really put in my heart into, regardless how good they are, are the ones I value most now. And I miss them dearly. 

Supply chain is about people

Amid all the media frenzy about robots and AI, and the prospect of them taking over warehouses, cars, and of course factories etc. etc., Bunnie Huang, a hardware guy gave a much needed sober assessment on the key to success on supply chain in his blog post, which is to recognize that supply chain is more about WORKING with people.

In the end, building hardware is a fundamentally social exercise. Generally, most interesting and unique processes aren’t automated, and as such, you have to work with other people to develop bespoke processes and products. Furthermore, physical things are inevitably owned or operated upon by other people, and understanding how to motivate and compel them will make a difference in not only your bottom line, but also in your schedule, quality, and service level. Until we can all have Tony Stark’s JARVIS robot to intelligently and automatically handle hardware fabrication, any person contemplating manufacturing hardware at scale needs to understand not only circuits and mechanics, but also how to inspire and effectively command a network of suppliers and laborers.

Jered Spool on Design Decision Making

I don't fully agree his hierarchy. But Jared Spool's talks are always intriguing and fun.


Anatomy of a Design Decision | Jared Spool | Live at An Event Apart | Video from Jeffrey Zeldman on Vimeo.

飞行安全中的设计问题之一

1987年8月16号，美国西北航空公司255航班，一架载有149名乘客6名乘务员的麦道82客机，从底特律机场冒雨起飞时坠毁，除一名4岁小女孩，机上所有人员死亡，另有两名地面人员被撞身亡，5名受伤。调查人员发现飞机失事与当时机场的强气流没有关系，飞机发动机也没发现异常。机长有32年超过两万小时的飞行经验，副机长也有8年超过8000小时的飞行经验。是什么原因导致飞机爬升速度不够进而坠毁呢？竟然是一系列偶然的小概率事件导致的一个低级错误造成的：

• 飞机从密歇根另一小城飞过来，已经晚点数小时，机组急于在雷暴到来之前离开底特律
• 就在飞机滑向跑道的时候接到调度的通知临时更改跑道
• 这个微小的干扰打断了副机长正在进行的清单检查（checklist）
• 在飞机更改跑道之后副机长没能从中断的清单继续检查，漏掉了一项基本操作，延伸襟翼（flap wing）。襟翼没有延展最终证明是个致命错误，飞机在转到较短的跑到之后根本没有足够升力。 副机长甚至漏掉将计算机调整到起飞状态。

即使如此，麦道82还有预警装置，在飞机起飞时会对非正常情况预警。经过对黑匣子的录音分析，调查人员确认起飞预警没有正常报警。通过对其他麦道客机飞行员的调查访谈发现，由于起飞预警在不必要的时候也发出报警声音，飞行员不胜其扰习惯上把座位下面的预警系统继电器拔掉。


调查人员请了NASA的专家帮助重新设计清单。今天新的电脑控制的智能清单可以从终端的清单选项继续。严格针对清单操作已经成为各航空工司的标准培训内容。

Say No to the New Flat

OK, I started the draft in June 2013, when iOS 7 is flatten out. My complaints about the flat style, started by Microsoft on its Metro UI are:

• You can't tell whether a text is a text or a button
• Without depth, most often represented by shadow effects, you lose an axis to show the visual hierarchy
• The extreme skeumorphism often times stand in the way of proper use of the digital media.Take the example of tearing off pages as a way of switching months, and imagining you are flipping back to some time in the past, do you expect the teared off pages to be unteared? How would that happen in the real world? Using this metaphor will put yourself in a corner. But going to another extreme doesn't make things better either. The Utopian/Puritan thinking often starts with good intentions, but never actually works in the real world. 

四张！

感谢老婆和黑蛋儿
三十九岁的雾霾
一扫而光
四十岁来得很快，
还好
心情不坏