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Should anyone ask, life is a series of conversations, and you die.

Found on my desktop:

  • Life is a series of conversations.  You are not living it unless you are having those conversations.  Step up and talk.

Steve Jobs: Your last day of life:

  • Live every day as the last:Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Jobs.

And from Tom Perkins:

  • Think for yourself.
  • Always go back to basics

Should anyone ask, life is a series of conversations, and you die.

Found on my desktop:

  • Life is a series of conversations.  You are not living it unless you are having those conversations.  Step up and talk.

Steve Jobs: Your last day of life:

  • Live every day as the last:Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. – Jobs.

And from Tom Perkins:

  • Think for yourself.
  • Always go back to basics

Should anyone ask, some thoughts on application development

In 1984, Bob Scheifler and Jim Gettys set out the early principles of X:

  • Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot complete a real application without it.
  • It is as important to decide what a system is not as to decide what it is. Do not serve all the world’s needs; rather, make the system extensible so that additional needs can be met in an upwardly compatible fashion.
  • The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all.
  • If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all.
  • If you can get 90 percent of the desired effect for 10 percent of the work, use the simpler solution. (See also Worse is better.
  • Isolate complexity as much as possible.
  • Provide mechanism rather than policy. In particular, place user interface policy in the clients’ hands.

The first principle was modified during the design of X11 to: “Do not add new functionality unless you know of some real application that will require it.”

X has largely kept to these principles since. The reference implementation is developed with a view to extension and improvement of the implementation, whilst remaining almost entirely compatible with the original 1987 protocol.

Should anyone ask, some thoughts on application development

In 1984, Bob Scheifler and Jim Gettys set out the early principles of X:

  • Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot complete a real application without it.
  • It is as important to decide what a system is not as to decide what it is. Do not serve all the world’s needs; rather, make the system extensible so that additional needs can be met in an upwardly compatible fashion.
  • The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all.
  • If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all.
  • If you can get 90 percent of the desired effect for 10 percent of the work, use the simpler solution. (See also Worse is better.
  • Isolate complexity as much as possible.
  • Provide mechanism rather than policy. In particular, place user interface policy in the clients’ hands.

The first principle was modified during the design of X11 to: “Do not add new functionality unless you know of some real application that will require it.”

X has largely kept to these principles since. The reference implementation is developed with a view to extension and improvement of the implementation, whilst remaining almost entirely compatible with the original 1987 protocol.

Should anyone ask, some music I like

I create lots of stickies on my Mac (desktop post it notes).  I’m trying to clean them off.  One of them is a list of music to listen to.  Should anyone care:

During the day

  • Duke ellington newport 1956
  • Beverly kennedy
  • Ann Hampton Callaway
  • Mastercuts Bar Social
  • Finlandia symphony
  • Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game  (2005)
  • Ladytron Witching hour
  • Winter chill – hed kandi
  • The Mills Brothers
  • Louis Prima
  • Capitol Collectors Series

In the evening:

  • Cal Tjader
  • Stadtism

On a Sunday morning:

  • Nightmares on wax  – Mind elevation

Sunday afternoon:

  • umanji – the witch

Should anyone ask, some music I like

I create lots of stickies on my Mac (desktop post it notes).  I’m trying to clean them off.  One of them is a list of music to listen to.  Should anyone care:

During the day

  • Duke ellington newport 1956
  • Beverly kennedy
  • Ann Hampton Callaway
  • Mastercuts Bar Social
  • Finlandia symphony
  • Thievery Corporation The Cosmic Game  (2005)
  • Ladytron Witching hour
  • Winter chill – hed kandi
  • The Mills Brothers
  • Louis Prima
  • Capitol Collectors Series

In the evening:

  • Cal Tjader
  • Stadtism

On a Sunday morning:

  • Nightmares on wax  – Mind elevation

Sunday afternoon:

  • umanji – the witch