“For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it?” — Luke 14:28 It’s not every day I quote the Bible. All the rarer that I quote from the New Testament, given the fact that I’m Jewish. But I happened [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Realizations'
Literally Desperate
November 18th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Digressions, Pain
There’s something I have to metaphorically get off my chest. You literally don’t have a clue what “literally” actually means. Literal is defined as: actual; absolute. Literally is defined as: in the explicit meaning of the word; without embellishment or exaggeration; not as an idiom or metaphor. I’m not the first person to plead this [...]
My 2nd Indie Anniversary
August 23rd, 2010 · 11 Comments · Career, Consulting, Pleasure
On the afternoon of Friday, August 22, 2008, I “left work” for the last time. It was my last day at my full-time job and I was officially self-employed. The last two years have been a whirlwind, and the benefits and repercussions of that single action have been far more significant than I ever could [...]
If the product doesn’t work, its “user experience” doesn’t matter
August 18th, 2010 · 8 Comments · User Experience
I recently edited an article for UX Magazine (When You Startup with UX) in which I interviewed four startups on what User Experience means to them. Of all the things that people said, the quote that stood out to me the most was from Mike Singleton, a developer at Foursquare: “…when you only have three [...]
Tags:Argument·Development·Methodology·Realizations·User Experience
The 5-Year Anniversary of My LLC
August 4th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Career
With all of my elation yesterday, I completely forgot to acknowledge that on August 3, 2005, I signed the paperwork that established my LLC. I was 7 months into my first full-time job at Digitas, and struggling to make ends meet. Since friends and family were already asking me to “just help them” with their [...]
