Tag: Frank Chimero

No New Tools:

So, now I come to the part where I make my plea: no new tools, please. If you are interested in improving how people work, you should devise methods for work, manners of behavior, and methods of decision making. Document your ideology and apply it with existing tools, so nearly anyone can follow along.

The Great Discontent: Frank Chimero. An interview with Frank Chimero about work, design, and what motivates you. I really enjoyed this line from the interview:

I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just stacking bowls, and that’s not what bowls are for.

The Anthologists:

Anthologies have the potential to finally make good on the purpose of all our automated archiving and collecting: that we would actually go back to the library, look at the stuff again, and, holy moses, do something with it. A collection that isn’t revisited might as well be a garbage heap.

I dig the notion of this coming to pass. Between Twitter favorites, Pinboard, Instapaper likes, and links on this blog I sometimes wonder what percentage of things I mark will actually be seen again. Something I need to get better about doing.

The joys of doing so

We so quickly forget that people, especially children, will not willingly do what we teach them unless they are shown the joys of doing so.

Frank Chimero – The Shape of Design.

I’ve been jonesing to go to a baseball game…

Many of my friends misjudge it, thinking sport needs to be swift like a basketball game, or intense and concentrated like a football game. But baseball is more of an experience to have than a spectacle to see. It’s called a park for a reason: it’s a place of leisure, (hell, stretching is built into the format), and an opportunity to just be present.

Frank Chimero – I’ve been jonesing to go to a baseball game…

Running Towards

A few years ago when traveling I had a meal at a tapas bar on a slow Tuesday night, and struck up a conversation with the chef in the open kitchen. She told me that the key to a good meal is matching the chef’s time: take as much time to eat the dish as it took to prepare it. I always filed it away in my head, but never quite knew how to classify the sentiment. It’s just within the past few days that I’ve understood that the reason I liked the thought so much was because of how kind it seemed. To match attention is to be kind.

Frank Chimero – Running Towards.

Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon

Really writing forces us to lock the words into whatever contraption is being used to write. I like typewriters because it’s hard to take out the paper and crumple it up while writing. The easiest movement is FORWARD. Typewriters are momentum machines. Real writing pushes forward. Tweets push in every direction at once. These are not value judgements, these are just some observations.

Frank Chimero – Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon.

Velocity. A very beautiful essay from Frank Chimero.

You are what you eat. If you want to get hired to do something then you should already be doing it. Potential energy is difficult to judge but if you take the initiative to turn it into a tangible product you’re miles ahead of others.

Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the Bed You Sleep In

Your Shit, My Stuff, Goldilocks, and Making the Bed You Sleep In. If we paid more attention to fit, access, and steadfastness in the things we buy maybe we’d all be a bit happier with less. Bonus is Frank Chimero’s awesome definition of freedom:

What I mean by freedom is the ability to say no. I don’t consider this a negative way of thinking, but rather a very positive way to have permission to opt out of the things we don’t want to do. I feel we need to acknowledge the value of the freedom derived from simplifying and eliminating the useless things in our life. This means having an understanding of what’s important.

An absolutely wonderful post.