Weekend miscellany

by John on February 13, 2010

Design

Ideation and design thinking podcast
Arial versus Helvetica

Science

Photographic periodic table
An alternative to Occam’s razor

Computer science

Lessons from studying a few billion lines of code
50 free computer science courses online

Business

If your product is great, it doesn’t have to be good
Keep your crises small

“If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they’ll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they’ll fix it.” — Ed Catmull

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Jared 02.13.10 at 23:15

The Catmull talk is marvelous. I interned at Pixar and he ate lunch with the interns and spoke with us on a few occasions, so I’ve heard a lot of these stories and principles but the talk still had loads of great material that was new to me.

Thanks for sharing.

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