The challenges in digitizing a small Texas town's bus schedule and stop information.

Jason Fried writes about how to get really good at making money.

"We’re addicted quick fixes, top ten lists, and four-hour work weeks, but the truth is - if it wasn’t hard, everyone would be doing it and a hard thing is never done by reading a list or a book or an article about doing it. A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start."

Shawn Blanc kicks off his first day as a full time writer.

Really cool CSS3 and HTML5 experiments.

Dan is totally crazy but in a way I have go to admire. 10,000 hours to becoming a pro golfer would be a pretty stellar accomplishment.

You can learn a lot by being part of an awesome team.

Mobiles give us a legitimate connection to nearly every human on earth. Landlines could only give us connections to places.

"So, memo to journo-bloggers: Less talk, more walk. Build something or STFU. When that urge to run to Wordpress so you can tell us your thoughts on paid content or aggregation or community strikes you, stop yourself and spend that time actually creating something that does what you say."

"Things are not as they should be. And yet, it feels as if we are all in the right place."

Basics on writing a menulet extension on Mac OS X.

"If I want to get hired to do something, I should already be doing it. People can’t always see potential energy. Instead of allowing a current job description to stand in the way, turn off the Scrubs re-runs and start a side-project. Draw a picture, code a site, or write something and share it with the internet."

"These habits are designed to create unexpected moments with Signal. Each moment with Signal is a moment that you’re killing the Noise and they exist so you remember what it feels like to care rather than just do."

Khoi Vinh writes about the use of instructional screens in web apps.

Or, how to stay sane and manage a startup effectively without having to make every decision.

Max Marmer explains why he is leaving Stanford to pursue a fellowship with Peter Thiel.

A fascinating behind the scenes look at the redesign of 37signals.com.

"I worry about the medium, because not enough designers are working in that vast middle ground between eye candy and hardcore usability where most of the web must be built. And there are fewer and fewer incentives for web designers to toil in these fields, since this type of work pleases web users but wins absolutely no recognition from the industry, aside from a paycheck."

"Long-form content, the importance of context, and rebuilding trust emerged as important topics at the first News Foo."

Not sure I buy the argument but here's one case for why the internet does not change anything.

"Journalism without effect does not deserve the special place in democracy that it tries to claim."

Rands' seven precious books and what they mean to him.

Time lapse video of writing 1000 words from Scott Berkun.

Frank Chimero shares his two favorite things about the web from 2010. Both look like keepers.

"Sound familiar? That’s exactly what newspaper companies have been like. Now they face competition from startups that can build new products faster than they can because they’re technology companies at the core."

"Digital design isn't fading, but it is changing: to keep pace with evolving technology, to drive new economics, to satisfy users' dynamic desires."

37signals provides some insight into how they group model of work has been going.

"We recently created a new internal app called Iterations to answer that question. It’s for 1) managing our internal requests about which features/bugs to work on next and 2) helps us create teams/iterations to get them done (using our team-based way of working)."

"The tradition of the commonplace book contains a central tension between order and chaos, between the desire for methodical arrangement, and the desire for surprising new links of association."

"It takes 10,000 hours of focused practice to develop world-class mastery. If you want that, you must say yes to the focus and isolation of your work, banning distractions."

"The future is connected in a way we could not conceive of a generation ago, in a way that our great-great-grandparents would consider unremarkable. We’re returning to an old place, but with new tools, and that combination will change everything, whether or not we see it coming, whether or not we want it to come."

"The art of the connection is the end result of a nerd’s highly obsessive due diligence performed on anything that falls into the relevant bucket."

"For a long time I’ve had the opinion that it’s more important to both design and develop websites from the inside out. That is to say, I prefer to begin with the most generic possible interior page and work my way to the home page."

Typographic city maps of Chicago and Boston.

Merlin Mann talking about meeting culture and how to avoid it while also making sure you're having good meetings.

"The truth is that you don’t need learn anything new in order to begin. The most important thing is simply to start."

Interview with Marco Arment about the tools he uses.

Frank Chimero's advice about what constitutes design.

Really interesting, and cheap, way to create a monitor shelf using an Ikea shelf and door stoppers.

"Leah’s child will grow up in a world which has begun to fetishize human connection."

Great story about a painting and the thinking it inspires.

Frank Chimero discusses the difficulties of doing client work and why he's taking a brief holiday from that type of design.

Cameron Herold discusses why schools and society at large should be raising kids to think like entrepreneurs.

The immense potential of a hyper-connected health system.

"Newsweek is for sale. While sad, it’s also an amazing opportunity to reinvent what a newsweekly could be. And it got me thinking."

Merlin Mann interviews Seth Godin about his new book "Linchpin" and the idea of "The Lizard Brain."

An Portland-based web design firm that has a really well-done and clearly presented site. Good combination of design work and ongoing projects.

A minimal example of a design company's site. Strong typography and simple navigation are good examples of clarity.

A great example of a wall mounted desk. Would be good to keep in mind for when I build my own.