Ben Aldern

Think fast. Act fast. Be fastest.

Thank you, Seth

Thank you, Seth, for writing Linchpin and sending it to me.

You’re blind to the iPad’s value

As everyone and their mother knows, yesterday Apple launched their ultrahyped tablet and called it the iPad. Your reactions are coming in hot and heavy and the majority make me mad. Here are the traps you fall into.

Abstraction

Everything around you is very high level. It becomes more interesting when you look at what created it.

Trust who you were. You were smarter then.

Don’t question your plans. Trust that you put yourself on the right path.

How to curve your life

What if every day you take steps to follow your passions and stay committed to making it work? There’s no disconnect between where you are and where you want to be. There’s only you doing what you want, becoming a unique person, and enjoying your life.

Good enough is the best we have

Nothing we do or imagine is perfect, so you need to settle with good enough.

Bare minimal interactive

In the middle of that highly entertaining and thought provoking presentation, Baratunde said something that made me stop. Tweets that make the reader think of the punchline themselves are interactive, even if it’s silent.
That made me rethink what interactive means and shed some light on a post I made a while ago. Definitions of interactive [...]

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