Webmention action

Exicted to see all the action around webmention, a modern alternative to the pingback protocol I drafted.

• http://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread  
• http://aaronparecki.com/articles/2013/03/31/1/a-response-to-replies-i-received-on-my-post-an-open-challenge-to-app-net 
• Client library for sending webmention and pingback notifications: https://github.com/aaronpk/mention-client
• pingback.me, a service to convert Pingbacks to WebMentions
• http://indiewebcamp.com/comment
• http://indiewebcamp.com/webmention
• http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rww/2013Apr/0078.html

Grains vs Milk

"It's also important to consider the big picture when judging the suitability of various foods. It helps to tell stories about the food we eat, to think about narratives. Grains aren't just little morsels of protein, carbs, and fiber bred for our enjoyment. They are baby plant eggs. Those macronutrients are there to sustain the seed's growth and those micronutrients are there to protect it. They are the plant's lifeline to immortality. They are literally shaped by the hand of evolution to survive and ravage the digestive tract of the poor sap that swallows them and discourage further consumption. Grain is only food because we deemed it so. Dairy? Dairy is objectively, absolutely food. Its fat, protein, and carbs are there to be consumed, albeit by young cows, sheep, and goats. It's meant to spur growth, to pack on muscle and fat and weight. And yeah, eating dairy protein causes an insulin spike, but that can be useful if you know what you're doing." -- http://www.marksdailyapple.com/dairy-insulin/

Habit Domino, the simplest habit-forming/habit-tracking android app that could possibly work

What started out as an audacious idea inspired by a death in the family, to build a game-like habit-forming/habit-tracking android app (codenamed World of Doers), got refined into the simplest habit-forming/habit-tracking app that could possibly work.

The basic premise of Habit Domino is that once you've committed to forming a habit, the simple act of recording the routine and visiting the app once a day, has a sort of domino effect, driven by awareness and emotion, that gets you to complete the routine consistently till it turns into a habit.

No Graphs. No Reminders. Just commit to forming the habit and visit the app once a day.

Just Enough

There is a point at which a solution is just enough to solve a problem. Anything less and it won't solve the problem and anything more will only add marginally utility.

This is especially important because customers usually assign a certain value to a solution and therefore, are willing to pay a certain amount for it. Adding more features doesn't necessarily mean they'll pay more. Strive instead to refine your ideas by removing stuff till you're left with just enough to solve the problem at hand.

Ambition is the side-effect of a finite (limited) mind

Since we have a finite (limited) mind we cannot possibly "see" things in their entirety. So we aggregate and summarize. Instead of seeing the journey that is someone's life, we focus on the destinations they're reached. It's little wonder then that we aspire to reach destinations instead of paying attention to the journey and price we pay to get to our destinations.

This post was inspired by Clayton Christensen's How Will You Measure Your Life? TEDxBoston talk from 2010 :

Fiction

All memory is fiction. Facts are just part of the plot.