As somebody who spends most of his day reading articles written on very specific technical topics, it is a delight to run across articles like this: written for a different audience almost ~7 years ago, and it still has useful advice for us! Funny how that works.
Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned
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#12While a lot of these lists seem rehashed and boring, this list contains some great outlook on life that I really agree with. Favorites are definitely #8, #1, and #10.
Yeah, it's damn near impossible to work for (or with!) people you don't like. I have limited life experience, but what I've learned definitely fits with #1.
Indeed. I've had managers that I liked and I pulled all-nighters for them (when I was younger) because they seemed to take a genuine interest in their employees. And I've had managers that seemed to have little interest in their employees other than as means to an end - those managers are tough to like and usually don't get nearly as much good work out of their people.
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#13I'm not sure what he was going for in the discussion of #10. Why do people want to license designers?
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#14From #3: "If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life." I will. This explains so much. Not just with other people, but with everything. May even shed some insight to a little "procrastination" problem a few of us here share. And as a hacker, I really appreciate a binary rule to…
I have a very similar rule in my life. People can either give you energy or drain it. True friendships of course involve both good and bad over time but it is the net that counts. If someone in your life is constantly leaving you feeling drained, it is better to let go of them politely, regardless of how wonderful the relationship once was. Once you figure out a person as a source or drain of energy, it's very easy to manage the relationship from that point on. Most people just don't feel comfortable coming to such conclusions.
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#15Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a shitty top 10 list.
It's a good article, but man the design of that site is lousy. The home page (miltonglaser.com) actually resizes my browser window to be a little rectangle (!), with complete lack of consideration for the ten other tabs I have open. All the content is scrunched up in a little ribbon on the left with absolutely no left margin. The text is too small, and the contrast is just barely enough. It's pretty, I guess, if you ignore all the whitespace on the right, but the usability is lacking.
This guy is a graphic designer. So what the hell is up with his site's graphic design?
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's damn near impossible to work for (or with!) people you don't like. I have limited life experience, but what I've learned definitely fits with #1.
Indeed. I've had managers that I liked and I pulled all-nighters for them (when I was younger) because they seemed to take a genuine interest in their employees. And I've had managers that seemed to have little interest in their employees other than as means to an end - those managers are tough to like and usually don't get nearly as much good work out of their people.
Yeah. At my first summer job, I would routinely stay at the office after my boss left just to work on the product, because I believed in it, and because he supported me, and because I admired and respected him. When I returned to work for the guy the next summer, his company had evolved/expanded and I got a lot less "face time". I was pretty much working under a COO, who believed in telling me "keep plugging away" as his version of moral support (I couldn't do more important work because I was simply "too young and inexperienced"). Anyway, I hated that second job, and I came into work late/left early whenever possible... I'll never work in a situation like that ever again.
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#17Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a shitty top 10 list.
It's a good article, but man the design of that site is lousy. The home page (miltonglaser.com) actually resizes my browser window to be a little rectangle (!), with complete lack of consideration for the ten other tabs I have open. All the content is scrunched up in a little ribbon on the left with absolutely no left margin. The text is too small, and the contrast is just barely enough. It's pretty, I guess, if you…
At least the site looks great on the iPhone! :)
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Time to drop out.
Some kinds of schooling are beneficial in the long term. I know plenty of folks that thought getting their PhD was painful, and were glad they did it.
Me, for one. My PhD was a lot of work, and the material itself is of very little value, but the things I learned on the way are absolutely invaluable.
I've learned how tell if I'm too tired to work, and techniques for getting me through that. I've learned how to find the most useful things to work on, and how to leverage them into getting the other stuff done as well. I've learning how to organise my time, estimate work to do and how to fit it in. I've learned how to communicate complex technical issues clearly, precisely and for multiple audiences.
The PhD was definitely painful, but equally definitely worth it.
Other exercises teach you similar things. Running a small company, saving a dying company, coaching sports for 10 year olds, and so on. If you use it right, though, school is a great place to learn from your mistakes without it mattering too much.
Possibly even more important, learn from other peoples' mistakes.
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#19Don't let the title fool you. This isn't a shitty top 10 list.
It's a good article, but man the design of that site is lousy. The home page (miltonglaser.com) actually resizes my browser window to be a little rectangle (!), with complete lack of consideration for the ten other tabs I have open. All the content is scrunched up in a little ribbon on the left with absolutely no left margin. The text is too small, and the contrast is just barely enough. It's pretty, I guess, if you…
What you are complaining about is not the graphic design part of the site but the web design part.
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#20This is why I love HN: even if something has a boring (or linkbait) title, if it has 100 votes, chances are it's worth reading.
#3 alone is worth the read, I've never quite thought of relationships that way.