iamboz's tumblog

Sep
3rd

Fri

We often react quickly to incoming email, almost like the phone ringing. In one workplace study, Jackson et al. (2002) found that 70% of emails were reacted to within 6 seconds of their arrival, and 85% within 2 minutes.

The problem is that it took participants in the same study 64 seconds to recover their train of thought after an email interruption.

Add this to the fact that Gonzalez & Mark (2004) have found that people spend an average of only 3 minutes on each task before they switch to another, and it’s difficult to see how anyone can achieve the psychological state of ‘flow’ necessary for complex tasks.

— Email’s Dark Side: 10 Psychology Studies — PsyBlog (via slantback)

Sep
2nd

Thu

The W Hotel is awesome. Installment 4

Opening the closet door turns on the light inside the closet.

Aug
31st

Tue

YouTube - khanacademy's Channel

10 minute tutorials on anything from Chemistry to Statistics.

hearts and thoughts they fade
fade away

— Pearl Jam

In New York City, an advertising executive recently handed over her American Express Platinum Card to a homeless Manhattan man after he had asked her for change. The man, who had been without home after losing a job, used the card to buy $25 worth of deodorant, water and cigarettes. And then he returned the card.

— How panhandlers use free credit cards | John Rankin (via criminalwisdom) (via brocatus)

Aug
19th

Thu

Dear Gmail

Yes, I want to send an email with a message, but no subject.

Yes, I want to send an email with a subject, but no message.

If you really want to save me from myself try to keep me from sending a message riddled with misspellings.

Thanks,

Boz

Aug
18th

Wed

Virb

Build elegantly simple websites.

Aug
16th

Mon

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary  Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, agreed to in 1989 and now adopted  by a majority of nations, was meant to stop the dumping of toxic waste in poor  countries. But rules get complicated when the waste arrives as a gift. (via A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana - Slide Show - NYTimes.com)

slantback saw it first.

Aug
12th

Thu

There has been a time in the evolution of everything that works when it didn’t work.

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Leo McGarry (via kevintwohy)

Show me a West Wing quote and I will reblog it.

Aug
11th

Wed

Me: Any chance I can get a generic pill this time? That last prescription was $33 for a month, more than $1 per pill.
Doc: That is the generic pill. Where'd you go? Walgreens, CVS?
Me: Yeah.
Doc: Go to Wal-Mart and tell them you have no insurance. You'll get 90 pills for $10.
Me:

Aug
10th

Tue

One person shared that they have generally found a pattern that products become more complex as a company’s market strength wanes.

— Creative Deconstruction: Why Dell’s Designers Tear Apart Their Own Computers | Fast Company

[W]e can’t just claim industrial design is important and then act on it when it’s convenient. We have to give it equal priority and treatment all the time.

— Introducing Guest Blogger Ken Musgrave: Design’s Best Friend at Dell | Fast Company

Aug
9th

Mon

It’s no use spending time, money, or effort to entice people into a product or service if it just leads to a bad experience. Why? Because those people you carefully encouraged and nudged into your circle? They go right back into the cloud, spreading the news about their bad experience.

— northtemple - It’s no use spending time, mone… (via slantback)

Aug
6th

Fri

Thanks BlueCross BlueShield. So helpful.

Aug
5th

Thu

The W Hotel is awesome. Installment 3

Turn your room number over to reveal your fortune and lucky numbers. Fortunes for all the rooms on a floor are different (I looked).