Firefox Tab Candy seems to be the future of browser surfing. No longer scroll only horizontal tabs, preview over 30 tabs at the same time, no longer be restricted to your computer or browser. Imagine the hability of creating page groups to organize your internet web page surfing, share them with other people.
All this tab candy makes me think, do I need more RAM memory on my computer?
So I was looking around for a TED Talk with a great speech about finding your passion, following your dream and making a living out of it when I find this video of Mike Rowe, the presenter and co-founder of Discovery Channel Dirty Jobs.
For me the key point of this talk comes between minute 11:24 and minute 13:05.
Mike’s advice is not to follow your dreams, not to pursue your passion but instead understand the world around you and do what you need to be thankful and successful at what you do and eventually happy doing it.
Viral marketing or viral advertising are two buzzwords created to define marketing strategies built to increase brand visibility through word-of-mouth.
Most people understand that viral marketing is something that everybody loves but have you ever tried to build a viral marketing campaign?
Cameron Herold, a professional entrepreneur coach, gave a talk at TEDx about how kids are raised in the USA. Again there’s a strong conviction that the educational system is not suitable for the student future challenges.
“Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.”
Cameron Herold
Personally, I love the idea of raising kids to work for their money instead of just giving them money. Let’s incentive and teach them to be creative on ways to make more money instead of just getting them as an allowance. On the other hand entrepreneurs don’t really have all the advantages a normal worker has such as the obligation of full paid vacations, sick days and dental care and eventually retirement.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to be an entrepreneur but I also believe that in my country there’s no solid ground for this.
I’ve love to get your point of view on this. Do you believe being an entrepreneur is suitable for your children or even for you? Or do you prefer the financial security of a company worker?
A while ago I participated at UX-LX conference where I had the chance to learn with Dave Malouf at his workshop Sketching: The Secret Sauce of Design.
At the workshop Dave talked about the importance of sketching with your hands to help develop concepts and creativity. Truth is people are very accustomed using computer tools to simplify, pretty much, all tasks and wireframe sketching is a very good example.
The bottom line of Dave Malouf’s workshop is that by pushing yourself to draw over and over improving, adapting, changing your designs and concepts, you are developing a creative flow and upgrading coordination skills that will considerably help you on your job.
With that in mind I decided to compile and share a list of offline tools to help your creative sketching flow.
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