The atmosphere between myself and my co-workers can be a bit like dogs in a run at times. We find a juicy morsel of a project and get a bit paranoid and territorial protecting it. There might be a few reasons that make this happen, but it stinks.
We need to act like dogs on a run, instead of in one. Dogs working together to pull the project to its destination.
I need to trust my team, be eager to accept help, and make sure that everyone knows the goal we’re aiming for, including myself. The trust issue is the biggest one for me. Hubristic or not, I really believe I work quicker than everyone on my team, and to a generally higher level of quality. When I say I need to trust others, I need to trust the value they bring to the project.
Then again, reading this many years from now, I hope to say that this is all very prideful. I hope that I value people more than I do now. That’s always a good thing.
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Wow gang, this post is a long time coming. A while back (around 11 months ago to be precise), I created a little web app for the iPhone that was a simple version of the NET Bible. I didn’t really tell too many people about it just because it was small, designed for myself, and lacked a few features that I thought were key.
Today that changes. I’ve completed the modifications, and now app has all the functionality I originally wanted. Please add a bookmark for the Switchblade web app. It has all the annotations, search based on your current browsing context, and a completely iPhone native look-and-feel.
I’ve added a link to the app on my sidebar, and if you are interested I’d love for you to tell your friends about it. Enjoy!
Along the same lines as Kutiman, the in Bb project is an amazing new venture in music. This time, however, it’s more of a roll-your-own type of deal. You are the creator of your own song which, unfortuantely or not, no one else will hear (most likely). You can get to the project at their website in Bb 2.0 – a collaborative music/spoken word project.
The project reminds me very much of a little Flash site that Amon Tobin did when he was doing on of his early albums. You could start, stop, mute, and unmute any track from one of his songs to create your own experience, so to speak. After playing with all the different knobs for twenty minutes I delighted. After playing with it for two hours, I was completely hooked. The in Bb project is a little different, but has the same effect.
This goes out to all the photographers in my family, the Siberian Wooden Houses project.
Irkutsk, Siberia is a city next to the deepest lake in the world, and it is home to some amazing (I assume) hand-made wooden houses. Vlad, of Vladstudio.com fame, drove around the city documenting the houses as they are falling into disrepair. If you care about any of the following, you will love the gallery he created:
- Photography
- Architecture
- Lighting
- Wood
- Siberia
- Siberian Wooden Houses galleries
I love four out of those six, so I’m absolutely enamoured.
