Thought Garage

"God Complex" is a strange word but quite a pervasive feeling. Believe it nor,  we all have it. Not just a little, but quite in abundance. A little humility is all we need to will help us to experiment and innovate. Incredible talk. Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.

Another wonderful TED Talk. Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility. The most shocking and totally pervasive is this 'series of unfortunate assumptions' when some one doesn't agree with you.

Most people with full time jobs I know of hate their jobs. For a variety of reasons. And a majority of them have been dreaming of becoming ‘entrepreneurs’ and building businesses of their own.  And almost all of them (that decided to venture out) have started or about to start a business of consulting and work as independent contractors. Doing the same or similar work they have been doing all along (software development projects for instance, as most of us are Software developers), though now they think they are well represented and compensated for their hard work. Is becoming an independent contractor a necessary step in between an Employee and an Entrepreneur ? Or being an independent contractor itself is the business? Is this what they really wanted ? or its just an easy start to get something going, on your own, so you can think of ‘real thing’ later on ? This great snippet by Seth Godin “ Building a job vs. Building a business ” put these thoughts in perspective. Read on. ...

Just watched 10 Hacks to Go From Idea to #1 App (October 29, 2010) - HD on Active Player . Source : 10 Hacks to Go From Idea to #1 App (October 29, 2010) - HD from Developing Apps for iOS (HD) ( Feed ) via Active Player

Adobe released a preview edition of Adobe Edge, a Motion and Interaction Design tool that generates output NOT in Flash but in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Adobe® Edge is a new web motion and interaction design tool that allows designers to bring animated content to websites, using web standards like HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3.  -- Adobe Edge Anybody already started reading between the lines ?

Researchers Expose Cunning Online Tracking Service That Can't Be Dodged http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/undeletable-cookie/ (Sent from Flipboard )

Mobile First Crunchup will be live streaming tomorrow at 3PM (CST) on UStream here. Read more about the crunch up here . Mobile First Crunch up will focus on the increasingly popular strategy of creating a mobile product first, and a regular Web product second, if ever. Mobile is just a more interesting part of the Web right now for many reasons—iPhone/Android, tablets, location-aware apps, cell phone cameras, GPS. Mobile First Crunch Up Given the fact that there are more mobiles than PCs and engagement on Smart Phones is exploding these days, it is getting lot more important and strategic to put Mobile First.  Anyways, Mobile devices are where the action lies these days. So why not check it out.