A personal website by Khürt Williams, with inchoate ramblings on technology, photography, beer, and geekery.
When did life become so complicated? I am juggling a personal calendar that includes a kitchen renovation project, co-ordinating move-in days for two universities in two different states, eye surgery, my mother's visit, my trip to Florida to visit my baby brother and his family, and a weekend away with Bhavna.
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When life gives you lemons ...
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"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go." Shannon L. Alder
Continue ReadingJust think about your life today, obeying the dictates of technology–waking up to alarm clocks (even if disguised as music or news); spending hours every day fixing, patching, rebooting, inventing work-arounds; answering the constant barrage of emails, tweets, text messages, and instant this and that; being fearful of falling for some new scam or phishing attack; constantly upgrading everything; and having to remember an unwieldly number of passwords and personal inane questions for security, such as the name of your least-liked friend in fourth grade. We are serving the wrong masters.
We need to switch from a technology-centric view of the world to a people-centric one. We should start with people’s abilities and create technology that enhances people’s capabilities: Why are we doing it backwards?
Ben Werdmüller (Ben Werdmüller)The Stanford d.School style Instant Business Plan, where the elements are literally Post-Its than can be swapped and changed, is a far better north star than a one-shot document. I think the same approach could work well for a life plan: a paper document where changability is an intrinsic part of the format, but you are nonetheless forced to express your ideas concretely.
Hmm ... I think ... I think I might put this together with ideas from Ben's What you're proud of post and stick the result into my about page.
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