editing text on ipad, revised? 
this is cool, but i wonder how many people out there would understand what to do, without getting confused. i find the slowness of the select and scroll feature to be tedious, but i know exactly what it is that i am doing as i am doing it. apple seems to sacrifice speed for simplicity in nearly every case they can. in other words, they make some processes necessarily slow. i also find it funny that this guy seemed to deliberately skip the magnifying glass feature which does just what drag to move cursor does, and is not that slow, and it is clear what the user is doing. in essence, he’s creating two ways to do the same thing, which is a big design no no for apple, and also for me. i feel like it’s easier for someone to learn and master how to do something within an os when there is only one way to do it. if his is the new way, and the other is dropped, that’s pretty cool, but he is also using keyboard tricks that most people dont know about (shift select). in his defense, apple does employ this method in their trackpad gestures on osx, but that may change. they want to get to the point where they have one cross platform set of methods to accomplish tasks.
@3 weeks ago
This is not a blog post intended to help you better manage projects, but a commentary on the focus we devote to project management in our work and in our lives. I will do my best to not use conventional language. That is not a promise.
It’s clear that humanity is reshaping itself to be better, to work beyond limits. There is something inherent in us, an urge to make order out of chaos. And the opposite. I feel it is the direct result of being born from stardust. We are a life form derived from that duality. That’s pretty hip and out there to say, but there’s no other simple way to explain our obsession with these two things than to out it in that light.
Admission: I am already aware that I’ve identified and pointed to something in the human experience that will likely either undo or enhance the argument I make in my commentary, depending on how you look at it. So, now look.
We’re running farther along in the time of the world, and isn’t that beautiful. Doing more things than we could have imagined. I lay in my girlfriend’s bed and remark on a toy I got her as a gift, a pair actually, of plastic mushrooms after two kinds you can pick up in a game called Super Mario Galaxy 2. I stare at the packaging. The plastic mushrooms have key rings, also plastic, and the entire product is housed in a two part clear plastic molding that’s glued to the cardboard which features the product’s graphics. Mario, his dino pal Yoshi, and a star, soaring through a blue, cloud dusted sky, alongside the title of the game. Consider, as I did.
Who put that graphic together? Was it a series of pre-existing pieces, cut and pasted together to save time on this product branding? If it wasn’t, that piece would have needed to have been commissioned! Freelancer? In-house? Original artist, or a graphics designer skilled at copying? Who decided on the egg shape that these plastic mushrooms sit inside? How many versions did someone need to decide on before moving ahead with this one? What did it cost? Were they over or under budget? Did they make their deadline? Profit or loss? Someone had to make a decision here, land sakes, and then bear the responsibility for its success.
How is it possible that I have these questions in my head, other than a curious nature? Project management. It’s nearly inhumane to demand these answers and decisions from some one or number of others to put together this product, which is minuscule in scale in comparison with more popular things, like Dunkin Donuts. Have you met someone carrying one of these on their keys? If you did or not, what were the chances of you having seen it either way? Is this person, this project manager, satisfied at all with the intent of this product? What was the goal?
We all bear these responsibilities in our own life, on our hip or in our bag, carrying computers that keep us on track. There’s almost no excuse for anyone for falling behind or not staying on top of something, but we all forgive ourselves and each other, just the same, because we all know the impossibility or improbability, that someone could be so good, or even survive, keeping a pulse on every beat in our life’s make up. And then, to take pictures?
Don’t forget to let go. Don’t forget to invite chaos. That it is only natural. Allow your memory to do its work, and feed it.
@3 months ago
It’s time to tell you. This is now, in your lap, crouching comfortably. This is dead even. Flowers in the vase, hold still. You can avoid this later but in this moment, suffer the truth. I give it to you, guiltless and self same apologetic. Not for what it means, only for what it will do, the truth, not me. Enjoy.
@3 months ago
