mattb + creativity 38
Confidence for good - Bobulate
march 2010 by mattb
People, both women and men, should be so fiercely passionate about good ideas that self-promotion is a natural extension. Otherwise, why is it worth doing in the first place? It’s when confidence and self-promotion are obfuscated from passion that the claims become flimsy and empty. Confidence can bridge the gap between desire and outcome as long as the integrity for what we believe and the authenticity of what we create remain in place. We have the ability to both do good work and to recognize it — the choice is ours to make. Confidence is good’s natural extension.
design
creativity
career
good
confidence
march 2010 by mattb
On Vacations, Rest, All-Nighters and Planning
january 2010 by mattb
Workaholics will eventually kill long term team productivity. Lone wolf heroes on the permanent all-nighter schedule are toxic. Find your threshold. Go somewhere sunny. Or just go home for the day. Don’t pull your team down because you refuse to take a break.
breaks
vacation
work
creativity
culture
articles
january 2010 by mattb
Write When Inspired – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
november 2009 by mattb
Write when inspired; rest when tired.
If you want to be great, or at least to be better, start by breathing, taking breaks, and working intensely when the mood is on.
zeldman
creativity
design
productivity
writing
If you want to be great, or at least to be better, start by breathing, taking breaks, and working intensely when the mood is on.
november 2009 by mattb
Cool business card designs | creativebits
businesscard design graphicdesign blog inspiration advertising gallery business cool ideas print reference branding creative interesting portfolio paper card cards businesscards art typography graphics marketing graphic fun identity creativity
june 2009 by mattb
businesscard design graphicdesign blog inspiration advertising gallery business cool ideas print reference branding creative interesting portfolio paper card cards businesscards art typography graphics marketing graphic fun identity creativity
june 2009 by mattb
Routines for Creativity
february 2009 by mattb
Routines give us structure, and this is good for creativity too. Whether it’s writing for 30 minutes every morning or meeting with friends once a week to brainstorm business ideas, these rituals tell our brains and bodies to get into a specific mode at a certain moment. It’s like your subconscious saying “okay left-brain, you turn off for a little while and let right-brain do it’s thing.” Routines get us into a rhythm and allow us to shift from thinking to doing. Routines help us make shit happen.
lifehacks
creativity
patterns
habits
routines
february 2009 by mattb
On Permanence
february 2009 by mattb
The problem is that when we’re in front of that blinking cursor, everything is so easily editable that we get caught up in do-mode. When we try to review things, we think, “oh, that’s an easy fix, so I’ll do it right now,” and instantly return to do-mode. We keep bouncing back and forth between the two without maintaining the proper altitude to see the bigger picture. To use the forest-from-the-trees analogy, it looks something like this:
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gtd
design
blog
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work
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organization
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life
review
productivity
ideas
essay
february 2009 by mattb
Risk-inverse
february 2009 by mattb
"What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place—the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that’s exactly what we did. And it worked. And that’s exactly what we’ll do this time."
economy
blog
inspiration
apple
creativity
economics
investment
february 2009 by mattb
Locus Online Features: Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
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february 2009 by mattb
corydoctorow distraction doctorow distractions focus authors cory read procrastination productivity literature process attention advice psychology web tools inspiration internet work gtd blogging tips lifehacks writing howto books articles creativity computer
february 2009 by mattb
Getting Real: The Book by 37signals
37signals advice agile ajax api applications apps architecture article awesome basecamp blog book bookmarks Books business code collaboration community computer creativity design developer development ebooks ecommerce entrepreneurship facebook free freelance gtd howto ia innovation inspiration interactive interesting interface internet layout lists management marketing mba money Online organization paper philosophy presentations process productive programming project projectmanagement rails reading reference research resource rubyonrails software startup startups tech tips tobuy todo tool toread tutorial ui usability useful Web web2.0 webapp webapps webdesign webdev websites work writing
june 2008 by mattb
37signals advice agile ajax api applications apps architecture article awesome basecamp blog book bookmarks Books business code collaboration community computer creativity design developer development ebooks ecommerce entrepreneurship facebook free freelance gtd howto ia innovation inspiration interactive interesting interface internet layout lists management marketing mba money Online organization paper philosophy presentations process productive programming project projectmanagement rails reading reference research resource rubyonrails software startup startups tech tips tobuy todo tool toread tutorial ui usability useful Web web2.0 webapp webapps webdesign webdev websites work writing
june 2008 by mattb
MOO.com | We love to print
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june 2008 by mattb
art blog Blogging book bookmarks Books branding camera career company cool craft creativity design e-commerce ecommerce flickr freelance fun generator graphic graphicdesign graphics illustration images inspiration interesting life lifehacks marketing mashup media Online paper personal photo photography photos print printing productive projects reference resource resources service shop shopping skype tech templates tobuy tool tools toread uk web2.0 webapp wishlist work businesscards cards
june 2008 by mattb
Carsonified
advertising agency apps art blog blogs business company conference conferences consulting cool creativity css design designer developer development entrepreneurship events freelance fun gallery graphics gtd illustration inspiration interesting internet layout marketing mobile personal portfolio reference research resources startup studio theme toread uk Web web2.0 webapps webdesign website
june 2008 by mattb
advertising agency apps art blog blogs business company conference conferences consulting cool creativity css design designer developer development entrepreneurship events freelance fun gallery graphics gtd illustration inspiration interesting internet layout marketing mobile personal portfolio reference research resources startup studio theme toread uk Web web2.0 webapps webdesign website
june 2008 by mattb
ConceptShare: Online Design Collaboration Made Easy
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june 2008 by mattb
agency agile app applications apps art basecamp branding business client cms collaboration communication community creativity design designer development diagrams drawing editing entrepreneurship freelance graphics hosted idea illustration image images innovation inspiration interface layout lifehacks list media network office Online photo portfolio presentation process productive project projectmanagement projects reference research resource resources review reviews service share sharing social socialsoftware software startup statistics strategy sustainability sxsw technology tool tools toread tutorials usability utilities visualization Web web2.0 webapp webapps webdesign webdev websites wiki work workflow
june 2008 by mattb
Writeroom
app Apple apps attention blog blogger Blogging book Books business computers cool creativity design development downloads editing editor education free freeware fun geek howto interesting internet journalism lifehacks mac macintosh macosx office osx productive reference resources retro simplicity software tech technology todo tool tools totry txt utilities work writing
april 2008 by mattb
app Apple apps attention blog blogger Blogging book Books business computers cool creativity design development downloads editing editor education free freeware fun geek howto interesting internet journalism lifehacks mac macintosh macosx office osx productive reference resources retro simplicity software tech technology todo tool tools totry txt utilities work writing
april 2008 by mattb
Social Innovation Camp
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april 2008 by mattb
innovation social web2.0 activism technology nonprofit creativity blogs business collaboration conference conferences development entrepreneurship events interesting media networking networks opensource p2p socialnetworking software startup tech uk Web webdesign yahoo
april 2008 by mattb
The Tools Google Uses Internally
apps articles blog Blogging business collaboration cool creativity culture design development interesting lists management organization productive programming search startup tech tips tools toread Web web2.0 webdesign wishlist work software intranet Google
april 2008 by mattb
apps articles blog Blogging business collaboration cool creativity culture design development interesting lists management organization productive programming search startup tech tips tools toread Web web2.0 webdesign wishlist work software intranet Google
april 2008 by mattb
DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix on Vimeo
dataportability Video identity data portability web2.0 socialnetworking attention creativity design development flash inspiration interesting marketing media microformats networking news organization productive sharing social standards toread Web web3.0 webdev
april 2008 by mattb
dataportability Video identity data portability web2.0 socialnetworking attention creativity design development flash inspiration interesting marketing media microformats networking news organization productive sharing social standards toread Web web3.0 webdev
april 2008 by mattb
stamen design | big ideas worth pursuing
design stamen sanfrancisco infographics visualisation mapping company flash web2.0 interactive blog web studio webdesign creativity inspiration visualization cool data mashup programming technology information portfolio maps digg interaction agency interface art
january 2008 by mattb
design stamen sanfrancisco infographics visualisation mapping company flash web2.0 interactive blog web studio webdesign creativity inspiration visualization cool data mashup programming technology information portfolio maps digg interaction agency interface art
january 2008 by mattb
Squidfingers / Home
agency ajax art articles artist blogs code competition creativity css design designer desktop development example free freelance gallery graphic graphicdesign graphics howto icons illustration image images inspiration interactive library mysql patterns personal photography photos photoshop php portfolio reference resource resources studio templates tool wallpaper wallpapers Web web2.0 webdesign webdev website websites designfirm
january 2008 by mattb
agency ajax art articles artist blogs code competition creativity css design designer desktop development example free freelance gallery graphic graphicdesign graphics howto icons illustration image images inspiration interactive library mysql patterns personal photography photos photoshop php portfolio reference resource resources studio templates tool wallpaper wallpapers Web web2.0 webdesign webdev website websites designfirm
january 2008 by mattb
Jason Santa Maria
architecture article articles artist blog blogger Blogging book bookmarks Books business cool creativity css design designer example fonts freelance fun graphic graphicdesign graphics illustration inspiration interface layout life links list news newyork personal photography photos portfolio reference standards templates theme ui usability Web webdesign webdev website wordpress work xhtml
january 2008 by mattb
architecture article articles artist blog blogger Blogging book bookmarks Books business cool creativity css design designer example fonts freelance fun graphic graphicdesign graphics illustration inspiration interface layout life links list news newyork personal photography photos portfolio reference standards templates theme ui usability Web webdesign webdev website wordpress work xhtml
january 2008 by mattb
Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, share, revise, compare.
collaboration 37signals ajax applications apps article blog Blogging bookmarks browser business calendar communication community company cool creativity design desktop development documents editing editor firefox free freeware fun gadgets googledocs gtd interactive lifehacks lists management mobile music networking office organization productive programming project reference research ruby rubyonrails service share sharing social software space technology text todo tools toread usability utilities Web web2.0 webdesign wiki writing Online
december 2005 by mattb
collaboration 37signals ajax applications apps article blog Blogging bookmarks browser business calendar communication community company cool creativity design desktop development documents editing editor firefox free freeware fun gadgets googledocs gtd interactive lifehacks lists management mobile music networking office organization productive programming project reference research ruby rubyonrails service share sharing social software space technology text todo tools toread usability utilities Web web2.0 webdesign wiki writing Online
december 2005 by mattb
attap : all things to all people
agency apps company contacts cool creativity design development homepage innovation inspiration interesting interface lifehacks network reviews service social socialsoftware software space studio technology tool tools Web web2.0 webdev websites work
december 2005 by mattb
agency apps company contacts cool creativity design development homepage innovation inspiration interesting interface lifehacks network reviews service social socialsoftware software space studio technology tool tools Web web2.0 webdev websites work
december 2005 by mattb
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