Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail are prioritized and appreciated above everything else, including being the first to market, having the most features, or having the most aggressive prices. If you can get those as well, that’s great, but quality will not be sacrificed to do so.

http://www.marco.org/2011/10/20/how-to-bring-good-design-to-a-platform

The amount of *shit* on TV never cease to amaze me. The colossal efforts that go into producing, broadcasting and watching *shit* completely blows my mind. If anybody really wants to make a real change in the World starting with figuring out how to exchange all this energy to something valuable — really valuable, not just monetary value to producers — would free enough time, thinking and energy to jump-start a global landslide of progress.

Fragmented, aimless browsing, reading and shuffling has slowly but surely conquered that time and mind space where my thinking otherwise would fit in. The void that I was supposed to fill with thinking, has been filled with fluff, noise, random thoughts from random people, stuff with no deep or lasting value to me.

Some would argue, that checking Twitter streams, Reader feeds, Facebook updates, news and what not is good for many reasons. Get inspired! Learn about stuff! Follow your friends’ lives! I used to think that it served a purpose to follow all those sites in Google Reader. I guess I still kind of hope it does?

But at what cost? Follow a steady stream of never-ending whatchamacallit instead of spending time thinking? Seems a bit stupid when you think about it, doesn’t it?

Fine, thanks, I’ve been fine. I’ve been working a lot. I’ve been spending a lot of time at home with the Missus and kids. Also, I have been reading. Quite a lot more than usual. Books, even. And blog posts and news and tweets and status updates. And what not.

Kids are growing, and the company is doing well, thanks.

I’m sort of working on this typeface from time to time…