“If it’s possible to test and measure successfully in a medium, it’s inevitable that people will test and measure. And when your competition tests and measures [and you're lazy], they’re going to evolve faster than you do.” — Seth Godin
20% time is a scam to help their [Google] engineers really focus on their remaining 80% time. Really good engineers like to have fun. They get distracted from the job they are supposed to be doing. They like to innovate — they don’t like to do the boring work that is required to make the product commercial grade.
“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability — they should go hand in hand.”
—Donald Norman, 2003
On David Cowan’s blog:
http://whohastimeforthis.blogspot.com/2005/09/parents-gone-wild.html
Too bad our 6-year-olds weren’t there. I’m sure that any one of them would have been smart enough to immediately ask “Hey, where are the plates?”
