This is Jamie Quint's blog covering technology, entrepreneurship, economics, and anything else interesting.
I usually don’t talk about myself on this blog directly, but today I have some especially exciting personal news that I wanted to share. I’ve incorporated for my consulting business. All the papers have been filed with the State of Oregon and the IRS, and I should be a legal entity by sometime next week. […]
This is an interesting quote from Steve Jobs, talking about the development of the iPod.
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like, That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Here is another great quote, this one is from the legendary Michael Jordan.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I […]
I’m going to start posting some quotes that I find inspiring. This first one is by Steve Jobs, from his speech given at the 2005 Stanford Commencement Ceremony.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. […]
I was at the 37Signals “Getting Real” Conference this week in Chicago, and while I had already read the book I found a lot of interesting insights into the world of being agile. The web has definitely ushered in a new world not simply because of the way we interact with information, but how its […]
“great new things often come from the margins, and yet the people who discover them are looked down on by everyone, including themselves.” ~Paul Graham
Change rarely comes from the inside. In technology, the chasm exists in because the mainstream hates change. Environmental problems increase because of our resistance to change. Just as “old habits die […]