Tag: People

Meet People

Meet people and look for ways you can help them. Understand their business, their pain points, and their challenges—keep them in mind. Then, when you come across a helpful article, eBook, application, referral, and so forth, send it to them. Don't expect anything back in return. Be genuine. Jeff Archibal

I've always found networking events a bit stressful. But with this new approach in mind, I can just look at it as a professional party. A chance to meet people and learn what's going on. And ... perhaps be of service to someone.

Regular People Have No Idea How To Manage Photos On Their iPhone

I found this post by Bradley Chambers via Daring Fireball.

Apple needs to do one of the following things (in my opinion):

Buy Everpix and integrate that functionality right into iOS and the Mac. I love Everpix as standalone company, but a lot of people aren't ever go to hear about them unless it was functionality built right in by default. Also, photo stream needs to be reversed. Apple should store ALL photos/video taken with your iPhone and just store the most recent 1000 (or 30 days) locally on the device.

Make iCloud free for the total size of all the active devices backing up to that account. If I have a 16GB iPhone and a 32GB iPad, I should have 48GB available on iCloud for backups. If a device doesn't "check in" every 90 days, then that amount is removed from your quota. This would also be another reason to buy higher storage devices.

Make iCloud storage a terabyte for all users for free. This is almost the same as number two, but giving you so much that you'll likely not run out for a decade or so. Yahoo did it for Flickr, why can't Apple?Bradley Chambers

I disagree with Bradley. Apple and Yahoo ( and Google ) are in different business. Yahoo and Google make money from selling advertising. The end-user is the product. Google and Yahoo can offer seemingly free services in exchange for collecting and analyzing use information. The continuous advertising revenue generated by the user offsets the cost of providing those services. Apple, however, sells an actual product. The end-user is the customer. I only buy a new Apple device once in a while but Apple would have to give me service for the lifetime of that product. I have no MBA or large business experience but I just don't see how Apple would recoup the costs or running these services?

Creative People

Truly creative people tend not to be motivated by money. That’s why so few of us have any. The riches we crave are acknowledgment and appreciation of the ideas that we have and the things that we make. A simple but sincere “That’s quite good.” from someone who’s opinion we respect (usually a fellow artisan) is worth infinitely more than any pay-rise or bonus.

I consider myself a creative person. Most of my working life (and even much more before that) was focused on using my creative talents to solve electrical engineering, software and information systems problems. Most recently my creative energies have been channeled through my writing ( this blog ) and my photography. I think the phrase ( lifted[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent="yes" overflow="visible"][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type="1_1" background_position="left top" background_color="" border_size="" border_color="" border_style="solid" spacing="yes" background_image="" background_repeat="no-repeat" padding="" margin_top="0px" margin_bottom="0px" class="" id="" animation_type="" animation_speed="0.3" animation_direction="left" hide_on_mobile="no" center_content="no" min_height="none"][^1] from [Linds Redding's longform blog post](http://www.lindsredding.com/2012/03/11/a-overdue-lesson-in-perspective/) ) is quite fitting for how I feel when I'm doing work that I'm passionate about.

[^1]: I found the link to the post via [Jorge Qinteros](http://jorgeq.com/jorgeqfolio/2012/12/31/n0wowzqfd6glld1ya2ilikvsxvvz5s).[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]