Why leaving the house sucks
This is a perhaps atypical post for me… Long ish but hopefully interesting.
I often feel like I’m in the wrong job. I love the real world, being outside, being with my family. Staying indoors all the time in front of a computer is a bind, thought it obviously conveys benefits to my family so one can’t complain. I am also incredibly privileged to spend most of my time applying my sometimes hard to constrain creative urges, rather than plodding along doing dull grey work.
Working outside of the corporate office is something that all companies should strive to support. It is challenging, buy we should be driving forward developments to make it less so for more people. There was a recent article about this and increased productivity I read, and it holds true.
The little flourishes make life great
It is the little flourishes, flashes of beauty, or pleasant surprises that make life great. Like a beautifully struck cymbal that sticks out at you from within a song, I noticed a little touch in OS X Leopard for the first time today. I downloaded a .ICS calendar event file for the forthcoming Grails “Twitter in 40 minutes” Webinar, and noticed in my dock the icon for it:
Not only does the event file’s thumbnail show the month and day, it also shows a summary of the text and the start and end time, all beautifully rendered. A lot of effort will have gone into make this rendering look great, even though you may only see it a few times a year, if that.
That’s attention to detail, based on the understanding that the little things make a difference.
