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Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

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Re: Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

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Post by jcromartie »

sketerpot wrote: post #15
ivankirigin wrote: post #2

Don'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…

He's not a web designer, at all. He does things like "I <3 NY" and Time magazine covers. His work is way older than the web... so I can't blame him.

Re: Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

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Post by sid »

Numbers 1,3,4,7 and 8 are some of the things over time I have also learnt. Sometimes you wonder whether your just over thinking things and that is why its good to once in a while validate it against other peoples who have actually written about their own thoughts that may in some cases be in line with yours.

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Post by Oxryly »

edw519 wrote: post #6

From #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…

> And as a hacker, I really appreciate a binary rule to evaluate something so complex. Thank you!

This tripped my sarcasm detector...

Re: Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned

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Post by david927 »

jmtame wrote: post #9
ivankirigin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you need to have a running average or debouncing of this kind of feedback. No relationship is so consistent that you'll get the same feeling after a meeting every time. I agree it's a solid rule - that could be applied to activities not just people. Good videogames, for example, might be judged by this rubric.

Time to drop out.

It's "follow your bliss" not "follow the sparkles". It's not about avoiding sacrifice -- Americans especially believe that suffering can be avoided and we tend to live our lives on a junk food high -- but finding what makes you happy in the long-term and generally focusing on that. You will sacrifice and suffer a lot in your life, no matter what you do. Running away from it is not the solution. The bliss he's talking about, if you can find it, winds its way like a ribbon through the average day.

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Post by anthropocentric »

erlanger wrote: post #5

It doesn't matter...if your boss looks at you cockeyed or your boyfriend or girlfriend looks at you cockeyed, if you are cockeyed. I thought that was a funny bit.

Is there a web app that makes it easy to comment on single lines of text (or, say, a paragraph) on a web page. When you visit a page you can see all of the little in-line notes and comments that others left behind?

Kind of like leaving a Comment in a Word doc?

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Post by DTrejo »

RiderOfGiraffes wrote: post #18
ivankirigin wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 w…

>>Possibly even more important, learn from other peoples' mistakes.

A very difficult skill to master.

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Post by pageman »

edw519 wrote: post #6

From #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…

sent this exact quote via SMS (after typing it ...hahaha) and it was greatly appreciated! :) great advice! :)
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