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  • Bill Rice 8:23 am on April 16, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: communication, joel on software, pecha kucha, stowe boyd,   

    Growing Appreciation for Simplicity, Brevity, and Clarity 

    Maybe my increased use of Twitter or the more hectic my life continues to become has contributed to this affinity for tightly packed, well thought out, communication.

    Examples:

    Brief me: http://twitter.com/billrice

     
  • Bill Rice 9:17 am on April 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Who Inspires You? 

    I have been running hard this week. Early wake-ups and late shut-downs. Running out of gas…

    So, I popped open my RSS feedreader looking for inspiration (I suppose).

    And, I found it in Chris Brogan’s “Inspiration and Origins“:

    My big point: none of us are originals. It’s okay. And I’ve DEFINITELY done it myself, where I’ve thought something WAS my thought, only to find out that I was synthesizing something I read a few days back, or a conversation I had (Did that famously badly once, to a friend I love, and had to rescind). But if you KNOW you’re going to riff off someone, give a little link love and be done with it. Fair?

    This is who inspires me:

    • Dave Winer: I hate his politics. I often hate the way he treats past or non-friends. But, he has an amazing genius to him. I read every word. I love his pictures on Flickr. He seeds thought and software. He gets user-first design. I wish I knew him better.
    • Stowe Boyd: I love his brevity. Master of 140 character poetry.
    • Seth Godin: A storyteller. Creates simple, short stories that if absorbed yield big results.
    • Joel Spolsky: Hero of the ISV (Independent Software Vendor). Master of effective software development methodology.
    • Twitter: I find more who inspire me everyday.

    Who inspires you?

     
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