Tag: Writing

The struggle to overcome what appears as ineffectiveness

The struggle to overcome what appears as ineffectiveness by Riccardo Mori (Morrick)

Feedback is little. People don’t seem to care (much). My attempts at attracting people’s attention towards this place, my projects and my fiction don’t seem to have long-lasting effects[1]. There’s the occasional spark. The occasional link. The fleeting endorsement. But readers don’t seem to stick, to return.

I'm not a writer -- at least not in the professional sense -- but those words resonated with me. I've been writing on this blog for over 10 years. Sometimes the quality of my wiring is good and I get a rush of traffic. But it doesn't last. Perhaps what I write isn't interesting or good enough. But ... I'm not giving this up. Please click through and read Riccardo's other post. He's also on ADN.

Apple’s Most Over-Looked Innovation

Harry C. Marks writing in Techpinions.

People can (wrongly) lament the lack of innovation in Apple’s products all they want. They can cry about how their Retina iPad minis don’t have TouchID, or how their iPad Airs are still too heavy to hold in one hand, but they need to check their priorities. When their tablets and phones and computers break, there is a company behind them to fix them. There are real people to talk to in-person who can hopefully come to some consensus about how to solve these problems. Customers don’t have to wait for return postage in the mail, they don’t have to hope their devices make it back to the repair facilities once they mail them out, and if the problems are easy to fix, they can most likely have the services performed on-site while they wait–or have the device swapped out for a new one entirely.