Rad! Not Sad :( is a spectrum of assorted radicality, found inspiration, and pleasurable tones curated by Chris Kalima, a partner at the Honolulu-based design studio Airspace Workshop.

Chris can be reached via email at chris [at] radnotsad [dot] com. Bursts of immediacy are available via Twitter @radnotsad. Be rad to one another.
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“Good enough” is not something I strive for, but the reality is, in some situations it’s better to launch and iterate than to delay and meticulously pour over every detail. This concept is directly applicable to a project I’m currently working on, and definitely some advice worth heeding. via Startup Quote

“Good enough” is not something I strive for, but the reality is, in some situations it’s better to launch and iterate than to delay and meticulously pour over every detail. This concept is directly applicable to a project I’m currently working on, and definitely some advice worth heeding.

via Startup Quote

…anxiety is freedom, and the way you are living will have been your life.
John Lanchester’s Can Money Set You Free?
The just-give-it-away-for-free-and-they-will-come-and-we’ll-be-rich automatron is as broken now as it was in 2001.
Word of the day: Automatron. via Eyeballs Still Don’t Pay The Bills
When the ecosystem stops rewarding complexity, it is the people who figure out how to work simply in the present, rather than the people who mastered the complexities of the past, who get to say what happens in the future.
Clay Shirky writes about The Collapse of Complex Business Models in his blog. via @nytimesbits
…the future belongs to those who take the present for granted.
Clay Shirky on the lesson from Aldus Manutius’ life, in Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. Recommended reading.
If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.
Henry Ford
But the dreamers of day are dangerous men. That they may act their dreams with open eyes to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence via 52 Weeks of UX
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
Ray Bradbury
And when there is always time for everything, there is no urgency for anything.
Happy Ending by Todd May
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Herbert Simon wrote this in 1971.