Paul Graham难得的短文章:)列举微软,airbnb,facebook,apple,google这些公司当年不仅看起来不可能做大,而且看起来根本就是“错误”的创业想法 ,这些东西跟现在各种花俏的创业idea比起来是不是没劲得多?
Often the founders themselves didn't know why their ideas were promising. They were attracted to these ideas by instinct, because they were living in the future and they sensed that something was missing. But they could not have put into words exactly how their ugly ducklings were going to grow into big, beautiful swans.
尽管我们进入了多媒体时代(图片,视频),人与人、人与机器、机器与机器沟通交流的主要手段还是纯文本。这篇survey从短信讲起,最后有点Turing test的意思:比如发短信到某个号码,你知道回复你短信的是人还是机器(查公交班次?用短信使用搜索引擎?)?
"Web design is 95% typography".看完后对网页上怎么文字排版(行距,字距),字体选择等有了更多认识。(不知道typography中文怎么翻译比较好 ... )