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The editor picks picked by the editor
I've collected some of my betterish posts into a collection called Editor's Picks. If we're just getting to know each other you should start perusing there.
By Category
- Build+Ship: Collections of quotes, links, pictures and stories about doing your best work more often, with heart and followthrough.
- Quote: Collections of interesting quotes about work, craft, heart, and other things that make me feel like there's a point to it all.
- Matterful: The matterful things. The things that matter and in so mattering fill our fur with furled fronds of faith.
- Design: A collection of thoughts and links about the making of things with heart and class.
- Plainlife: Just the plain stuff... announcements and such.
- Video: A collection of moving pictures that inspire, giggle, teach or woo you.
- Musics: Where the things I hear are heard.
- Software & Tech: Fixes and bugs and things that I need to write about so I can find out how I fixed it before.
- Legends: People I have looked up to and admired at some point in my life.
- Personal Development: Better yourself: be yourself.
- FunnyAm: This is the funny stuff. Where the dick and fart jokes flow.
- Workflow: Tips, tricks and hacks I've tinkered with to foster care.
- You Should Know: Stuff about people and things that you should know about.
By Calendar:
- 2012: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2011: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2010: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
- 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
May 2012
- William Goldman on knowing anything
- Pete Campbell on success and sadness
- Dirty little secret: TextExpander for self-clearing CSS
April 2012
- How to see design
- How to communicate market leadership
- My goal
- Goethe on enthusiasm and perseverance
- John Cleese on when creativity happens
- Hitchcock on pressing
- Twyla Tharp on how creative acts are born
- Ben Pieratt on getting started
- Ben Pieratt on the opportunity
- Severian on stories and what's ours
- Robert Towne on getting into the character
March 2012
- The explorers now, pretty much, stay home
- Aaron Draplin's 50 Point Plan
- In mother internet idea defines you...
- A study in depression
- Saul Bass on clients and budgets and beautiful things
- Meaningless, meaningless; all is meaningless. And yet...
- Annie Dillard on spending it all
- Using Apple’s Keynote instead of PhotoShop design mock-ups
- Pixar screenwriter reveals building blocks of story
- Frank Chimero on making things for other people
- Geoff Barnes on enlightenment
February 2012
- Aaron Draplin on cool
- Podcasts I'm listening to
- I have no idea...
- Short film and song — Coastin'
- Josh Ritter on the books
- Jimmy Breslin on the hangover of ideas
- Wilson Miner on responsive design
- Wilson Miner on nourishment
- Wilson Miner on designing the world
- Don't forget your roots
- The "creator" economy
- Ben Chestnut on business and passion
- The work is spiritual
- Jonathan Coulton on piracy
- Mark Boulton on edges
- The entrepreneur's bravado/insight/ignorance
- That's not bullshit. That's big and heavy and cool.
- Gene Wolfe on the part that is more
- Aristotle on the human good
- Ben Hammersley on life platforms
January 2012
- Let me count the ways…
- “I have a phobia of wolves”
- iPhone Wallpaper: Amperspace
- Consumers vs. producers
- Bill Cosby Cigar Silhouette
- Be yourself, they'll come around
- Zagg and Logitech iPad keyboard case review
- An ode to a dark and lusty mistress
- The zen of changing lanes
- Steve Jobs on building from the heart
- Designing forwards and backwards
- Legend: at work
- Jack Hart on chunking up the writing process
- Sample website content & sidebar sizes based on ratios
- If you want to make for yourself
- Remember when rock and roll mattered to you?
- Legend: Cosby vs Cosby
- Design, objectivity & the punk spirit
- How do we know what happens to us isn’t good?
- Pogo remixes things, the result is: my life is so great!
- Whatever you do, eyes front, head high to the finish
- Chrome 1Password Auto-Login Keyboard Shortcuts
- The Cocktail Station, a party hosting tip
December 2011
- Legend
- Radiohead on self publishing In Rainbows
- Thom Yorke on finishing and working with others
- Radiohead on confidence and making
- Robin Williams on spark and madness
- Hand painted signs
- Everything is going to be okay — the desktop
- Blue eyes, frizzy hair, magic
- Max on life with Diana
- Jon Yongfook on design vs value in startups
- What Louis C.K. has learned about money
- Louis C.K. publishes the results of self publishing his comedy special
- That spirit really wants to tap into my whiffle wine
- An christmas songs for to harken by!
- Louis C.K. on what he's learning
- Louis C.K. on self publishing and torrenting
- Design is more like farming than art
- Louis C.K. changes the comedy industry, again
- List of Mac apps to transfer to new computer
- The danger of not making use of your make-manship
- Another take, sans shoes
- Something to aim for
- Mac grant user admin privileges
- Site update notes and thoughts
- Good fucking design advice
- Mark Otto on design and communication
- Bob Lefsetz on perseverance
- Rules to write by
- The Batman Blues™
- Legend
November 2011
- Jason Fried on embracing your side-job
- Coding Horror on wonder
- Two favorite scenes
- King & Duane on craft
- Catarina on what's important
- Ryan Sims on talent
- Golden ratio vs plain ol' math website column sizes
- Frank Chimero on design as gift
- Portland Time Lapse Video
- The Only Music I’m Listening To
- Frank's key to being proud of your projects
October 2011
- O great misery, O swelling heart, O hope
- The only bummer is...
- Joseph Conrad on the way through
- Hitch on cheap booze
- Excellent article on worldly wisdom and business
- Loremify is a tool I use
- Legends
- Jim Coudal on the process
- Design: communication, culture, commerce
- Buddy Rich on how you suck
- Ira Glass on the gap
- #RIPSteve
- Frank Chimero on usernames
- So many Christophers, so many Crosses
- 7 Secret Ways To Never Not Die
- Legend²
- Legend
- 6 Lessons in my 6th year of marriage
September 2011
- I worship the old gods...
- Excellent Party Hosting Tips
- Tom Preston-Werner on better writing & technology
- Another cutting floor snippet
- Conan's last words
- Louis C.K. on Leno and horseshit
- Louis C.K. on compelling, inspiring and fun
- Wordpress Lost Categories on Import
- Wordpress Plugins I Use
- Go Read This: Megan Amran on passion & cool
- Why Markdown? Smarter than I guy says why.
- Great Advice
- What you need for a party: a list of liquor requirements
- Louis CK on George Carlin
- Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories
- Ogilvy's 10 rules for building and running a business
- Robert Evans on finding who you are
- Robert Evans on turn-ons
- Merlin on good vs. profitable
- Clearly this is how you're *supposed* to make drum sounds
- Legend?
- There's something I like about this.
- Patrick Stewart on writing
- Art and pain
August 2011
- In this home
- Steve Jobs on the only true satisfaction
- Working on a Nouwen Movie
- The boat needs a name.
- Cool
- Louis C.K. on life
- Steve Jobs on life, death, heart, intuition
- Nick Cave on his muse
- Dan Harmon on how to write good
- Legend
- A cutting room floor snippet
- Legend
- Though fearful of offending, he posted it anyway because it matters
- Dan Harmon on honesty and health
- Print one long document from many small text files
- Notice what you fear
- "I should have had better jokes." The neurosis of shipping
- "Bon Iver Holocene" a new film by Sigur Ros fans
- My Friends' Upcoming Albums
- The part where you kind of jiggle-laugh and cry
- "Superman..." the part where I fall apart every time
- Conan on liberation
- King of Pants: Louis CK's first Letterman appearance
- Legend
- Editor notes on a book introduction
- Bernardino Branca's product motto
- BMW designer guy on emotional authenticity
- Richard Pryor on growing up
- Remember what you want to be doing
- David Carson on communication
- "Here’s to the doers of words, not just the writers of them."
- Play for the Long Haul Smile Inside™
- Ben Franklin on writing and doing
- Legend
- A site full of music we've created
- This part always makes me cry
- "Where are all the white women?"
- Seth Godin on business ethics
- Ben Pieratt on work
- G.K. Chesterton on art
- That asshole took all the cookies!
- Haruki Murakami on assholes
- Jim Coudal on moving from service to products
- Parkinson on side projects
- Merlin Mann on doing a better do
- Sidney Poitier on matterful work
- Probably A Favorite Image Ever: Wilder, Pryor, Poitier
July 2011
- None more matterful...
- Legends
- You Should Know: Thomas Dybdahl
- Stephen Spielberg on when it's magical
- Zach Galifianakis' todo list
- Banksy on artists and advertisers
- A web guy on why he sands the underside of a cabinet
- Legends
- Louis C.K. on people alive today
- There's temporal, and then there's temporal
- Ricky Gervais on The Office
- Happy The 10th Anniversary The Office
- A story I told about my body
- Impossible. Regardless, Amateur Sweats Toward Dream
- Dave Grohl on what you do at his shows
- Steve Jobs' proud face
- My spirit animal looks like this
- J.R.R. Tolkien on starting with a name
- Legend
- Legends
- Pixar's rules of story
- Everything is a remix
June 2011
- Jaga Jazzist do the work
- Creative work is worky
- Robert M. Pirsig on getting narrow
- Is this funny or just weird?
- Legend(s)
- Steve Pavlina on playing for the draw
- On passion, business, and douchebaggery
- Steve Pavlina on success vs. success
- Using Markdown with your copy editor
- Give up on analytics, build something you love
- Steve Martin on being successful
- Solid Time Management from Yuvi
- Yuvi on tasks that matter
- Yuvi Zalkow on second first drafts
- The Post Evangelical Podcast
- Angry Boys - go watch this
- Charlie Brooker did the work
- Lawrence Pearsall Jacks on work & play
- Alan Watts on Buddhism on passions
- Family comments.
- Mr. Rogers on where we come from
- Texan wisdom on shipping
- Rich Siegel on shipping
- Legend
- Great post to learn the basics of "em" based font sizes
- If you live in a tree...
- Ira Glass on quality and ambition
- Ira Glass on doing the work
- I don't got nothin' but...
- Legend
May 2011
- Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Wordpress Blog
- A Guided Meditation
- What men feel when they drink
- My wife wrote my birthday invitation
- Get Smart With Smarty Pants Music
- Basecamp Tip: Store all logins in private message
- E-Book Writing Workflow
- Why I never take a simple project
- What we use our productivity for...
- Typing isn't hard. Writing something good is
- Two fatal rookie designer mistakes
- On design decisions and hazing your clients
- On defending your work
- One of my favorite Photoshop tips
April 2011
- Doing the work... on a mountain.
- The work I'll do the rest of my life...
- Stephen Pressfield on conception, chaos, blood, pain...
- When I Get Sad, I Get Awesome
- On boat shoes...
- Read This: On Cranks, Making Stuff Your Way, Dads
- A Guy, Doing The Work
- Quicksilver Auto-Hides All Apps But Frontmost... Fixed
- Thomas Edison on doing the work
- There's only two kinds of people in the world
- You're dummer than you look, here's proof.
- Stephen Pressfield on choosing new projects
- Stephen Pressfield on creating and the dark side
- The Cinematic Orchestra - You Should Know
- A New Brand: for Dudes With Spiked Hair, Shaved Heads, Big Hearts
- Straight To The Gut
- Game of Thrones Trailer
March 2011
- Cut the bullshit, do the hard work, on your desktop
- Things that matter, things you can control...
- Will Farrell Outtakes
- John Cage on never having a job
- Markdown & Textile, Glory-Woes
- The key to your happiness... slippers
- So Hungry About Design
- Milton Glaser on certainty
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things He Has Learned
- Mike Montiero on the work you do
- Mike Monteiro on presenting design to clients
- The Reeves Pre-Populated Wordpress Database
- Jeff Sexton's secret to greater ads: bubbling
- Welcome To Ice To The Brim!
- How I Built This Site
- Doug Stanhope on advice to comedians...
February 2011
- Why I Enjoy Marc Maron
- Wordpress "Unable to create directory" error on media upload
- The "Hard Realities of Creating Something Awesome"
- Beauty: Aerial Footage of Uncontacted Tribes
- A tragically heroic posture...
January 2011
December 2010
November 2010
- 7 Life-Altering Blog Headline Tips To Cure Cancer
- If Quality Matters More...
- How To Win Everyday
- The Entrepreneur As Predator
October 2010
- Friend Tip - Take Notes During Conversations
- Crowd Sourcing A Feature Film
- One Of My Favorite Focus Albums
- 5 Lessons In 5 Years Of Marriage
September 2010
- The One Marketing Question You Need To Ask
- The Big Announcement!
- How To Beat Futility
- Quick Reason To Love Soccer: John Cleese
- John Cleese On Creativity
- Barefoot Running
- A Blue Tribute To Back Fat
- Lilac Wine - Amazing Song, Amazing Animation
August 2010
- BlackBerry Commercials = Retarded
- Do You Love What You Do?
- Moshe Feldenkrais Quote
- I Am VPS And So Can You!
- Calvin Harris... Ready for the weekend!
- WTF Marc Maron!? Do It!
July 2010
- Songs From The Archives: Sad Song
- Epic Album: Eminem (don't f-ing laugh!)
- Audio Special: Born In The USA
June 2010
- Three Great Bands You May Not Have Heard Of
- Portland Things To Do: A question to PDXers
- Articulate: True Things About Experiences
- I Just Realized I'm Average
- Dirty Projectors - Very Good Musics
- A great Memorial Day weekend 2010
May 2010
- Memorial Weekend... Get Started
- My Evernote Workflow - Do More With Less
- Three Mac Twitter Clients That Aren't Tweetdeck
- A Twitter Primer
- Dear Science - Moods To Milk Monday To
- MAMP only displays "It Works!" - How to fix it
- I Can Has Birthday? Some Pics & New Vids
- Viktor Frankl - Why To Believe In Others (video)
- World Cup: Get Fired Up
- The New icetothebrim.com & Another Site You'll Love
- TED Talk: How Great Leaders Inspire... hint "why?"
- Three new albums you have to check out
- Simon Sinek on early adopters
- Mac Blog Workflow - Scrivener, Markdown, Textmate (video)
- Sprint - A model of and argument for doing shit quick
- Creative Process — A Couple Resources
- Habit Fields: interesting article on setting up spaces
- Self Discovery & The Enneagram: Find Out You
April 2010
- Ben Dunlap on a passionate life
- How I Blog On A Mac: Scrivener!!
- Seth Godin On Shipping
- Maybe this is all the Seth Godin you'll need for a while...
- "All you need is 1000 true fans"
- An unbelievably touching letter: Richard to his dead wife
- Suzanna and the... Hallelujah
- Josh Ritter - Snow is Gone from Hello Starling
- The sign of a really good nap!
- My $9 Coffee
- Mamp and Parallels 5: How to setup a windows & mac virtual host
- Clay Shirky's insightful article on old media business, and new.
- Aiden swings.
March 2010
- Bleeding Truth, one of those things you make when you're younger
- Gary Veynerchuck - Web 2.0 Expo, 2008
- Making Case Law Fun
- If the government was a leader instead of woefully behind the times...
- Notes on the healthcare reform bill... Cuz i don't know ANYTHING
- Blueprint CSS: A framework... I used it and loved it
- "I believe you really are a good husband..."
- Interesting Author's Blessing:
- Two Dogs Are Fighting: The sales dog and the product dog...
February 2010
- Benediction For A House: A poem of sorts
- How to change Chrome's default search engine to results from the past year
- 25 cent advice for your marketing/ad campaign
January 2010
December 2009
- After a long, arduous battle, I'll be using Adobe Lightroom instead of Apple's Aperture
- You should have seen this a while ago, in case you didn't: Dr. Horrible
- Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs TED Talk
- GTD Tip #167: Turn "Organizing Tasks" Into Rewards
- iPhone Playing Audiobooks Out of Order Fix
November 2009
- Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal
- Yves Behar on Advertising
- Every once in a while... something matters.
October 2009
- Design Vs. Style: thoughts on stuff probably completely sorted out somewhere
- Success - Simple Thoughts By John Wooden
- John Wooden On Success
- The Relationship Of Happiness & Ambition: huge study, short report.
- Jack of all trades, master of none or all-in-one awesome?
- How To Win Wives And Influence Spending Habbits

