Month: August 2011

My love for quotes & sayings

Ever since I was a little girl I’ve collected quotes and sayings. I had a special book for them and as I had my first crush that book saw more and more of the “Roses are red, violets are blue…” kinds.

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Beach

On simplicity out of complexity

Ideas and inspiration come from conflict. It is in clashing ideas that new ideas are born – when our brains drop all of the boxes of categories on the floor of our mind, we finally see something new. That’s why the best ideas that we have are out of context

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Water lilly

On iPads and use of apps

The major takeaway for app developers is that they must provide an experience that goes above and beyond the Web in order to give users an incentive to use an app over the web equivalent. From the UX Magazine article Five lessons from a year of tablet research on how

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.net Magzine's Big Question - September issue

.net Magazine’s big question

One of the reasons I started to freelance is to have a bit more time for side projects, writing and speaking. Who knows, perhaps one day even follow in my dad’s footsteps and write a book.

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Birds

On social media in times of crisis

…in a world of social media, a whisper can acquire a damaging momentum regardless of its relationship to the truth From BBC News article England riots: Dangers behind false rumours Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3397842830/in/photostream

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Dawn

On never stopping to challenge yourself

The secret of life is to have a task, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is: It must be something you cannot possibly do. By the English sculptor Henry Moore Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/frank_wuestefeld/4306107546

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Star

On why you should celebrate failure

No. You failed. Own up to it. Own it. This is a beginning, not the end. From the Fastcompany article Celebrate Failure on why more people should acknowledge and learn from failure and not see it as the end. Image source: www.flickr.com/photos/aftab/3475219722/in/photostream

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Why you should write every day

You probably think you have nothing to write about but once you start it gets hard to stop. Honestly. Writing is an incredibly important skill at all levels. By writing every day you reflect on things in a different and clearer way and you become better at expressing yourself. If you haven’t tried writing every day, give it a try for 30 days to begin with. I did it every day of 2012. Seth Godin has done it for years and swears by it.