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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. Fresh: A Friend’s Online Portfolio. Full Screen Google Tasks →. Just read Getting Real. I highly recommend the book for anyone working on anything, but especially software products. I don’t agree with everything, but sometimes reading a highly opinionated articles is refreshing to change perspective. Be small, be quick and always be moving. Coming from a design background, I embrace many principles behind agile development.

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You Can’t Take It With You | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. Full Screen Google Tasks. You Can’t Take It With You. Last September, I traveled for a month carrying only a 35 L backpack. I didn’t always look proper, but I survived freezing temperatures at 8,000 ft in Yosemite, Malaysian heat, and Philippine-typhoons. Coming back to my apartment, I realized I own many things. Anyway, a few interesting ideas floated my way. First, the 100 item project. Reduce your personal items to total 100&#46...

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Go | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. Go get lost. Go past your limits. Go hurtling toward a future in which I imagined that that we were doing and what we were capable of doing had somehow, suddenly become the same thing. Go find what you’ve been looking for. I wish you way more than luck. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. You Can’t Take It With You. Full Screen Google Tasks. Fresh: A Friend’s Online Portfolio. Proudly powered by WordPress.

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January | 2012 | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. Monthly Archives: January 2012. You Can’t Take It With You. Last September, I traveled for a month carrying only a 35 L backpack. I didn’t always look proper, but I survived freezing temperatures at 8,000 ft in Yosemite, Malaysian heat, and Philippine-typhoons. Coming back to my apartment, I realized I … Continue reading →. Comments Off on You Can’t Take It With You. You Can’t Take It With You. Full Screen Google Tasks.

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Tall Man Letters: Emphasizing differences | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. If We Don’t →. Tall Man Letters: Emphasizing differences. In 2001 the FDA encouraged pharmaceutical companies. With similarly spelled drugs to enhance product differentiation by reformatting their drug labels. To emphasize name-differences, the unlike letters were capitalized. Insulin secretion enhancer, meant to treat diabetes mellitus type 2. In the biz, they call it “Tall Man Letters”. This entry was posted in Uncategorized.

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A Standard of Cool | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. RentMaps – A Review. The View →. A Standard of Cool. Last month I grabbed lunch a few times from a nearby food truck. Besides the carefully-seasoned and veggie-focused menu, I also noticed their iPod Touch order system. Employees took orders outside of the truck, and plugged the orders into their iPods. The orders went to cooks’ iPods, which were docked to the food truck walls. The cooks handed the food to the customers. This imple...

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If We Don’t | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. Tall Man Letters: Emphasizing differences. Fresh: A Friend’s Online Portfolio →. If We Don’t. A few years ago, I read about the long portrait. A short video of a single subject. Executing one is a tricky balance between haunted house trope and surprise, Promethean staring contest. But the Tumblr blog If We Don’t, Remember Me. Is making magic with carefully edited, strung-together and looped movie stills. 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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agile development | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. Tag Archives: agile development. Just read Getting Real. I highly recommend the book for anyone working on anything, but especially software products. I don’t agree with everything, but sometimes reading a highly opinionated articles is refreshing to change perspective. Be small, be quick and always … Continue reading →. Comments Off on Getting Real. You Can’t Take It With You. Full Screen Google Tasks. Proudly powered by WordPress.

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30 Day Experiments | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. A Typeface as Assistive Technology. Fellow Bostonite, the Young Urban Unprofessional. Is beginning his series of 30-day experiments by living one month without a landfill. Over the weekend, I traveled with the Unprofessional to hike Killington Peak. But I love the optimism and encouragement for self-improvement expressed at a TED lecture. Exercising everyday is obvious, but how can push my body in new ways? Since the GRE is in my s...

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Full Screen Google Tasks | Dan-Wong.org

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Writings on design, human factors, rock climbing, and everything related. You Can’t Take It With You →. Full Screen Google Tasks. I originally didn’t like Google Tasks. Now, thanks to LifeHacker. I just pop up Tasks in full screen. No (well, fewer) distractions. Https:/ mail.google.com/tasks/canvas. I haven’t tried Remember the Milk. But people keep talking about them. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. You Can’t Take It With You →. You Can’t Take It With You. Full Screen Google Tasks.