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But at times, I wonder if it isn’t just the next fad. It’s certainly partly a backlash to the personal productivity movement, with GTD at the centre. But maybe it’s also the new GTD. Instead of doing work, people are still tinkering. But now they do so under the guise of ‘reducing’ or ‘simplifying’.

~ Chris Bowler

I think he is right. A certain amount of complicity is OK and I will go into deeper thoughts about this soon but for now I agree 100% with Chris. Everything simple does not mean you get more done. Sometimes personally I get stuck in getting everything simpler and than get nothing done in the end!

Someone tried to answer that question and showes his results in a graph.

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But will it be open or closed? I shudder to think of OS X (or it’s future derivative) as closed, when it’s the third party ecosystem that brings me the most enjoyment on this platform. And this ecosystem is a result of the openness of the OS.

~ Chris Bowler

The main problem I have with the iPat is that Apple is closing its OS’s. I hope that they never think about closing Mac OS X as much as the iPHone OS!

Overall, I’m left with the impression that this is not the end destination for Apple, but just another step on the way. Like the iPhone, the iPad is just the next step in Apple’s plan to be the digital hub in the home and the office.

~ Chris Bowler

A single idea can build cities.
An idea can transform the world,
and re-write all the rules.

~ via Chris Gilbert

1. RAW only. JPEG quality is irrelevant because it seems insane to shoot anything but RAW. I’m shooting for documentary and archival purposes, as I think we all should.
2. Mainly aperture priority.
3. Mostly Auto Focus because things move quickly in real life.
4. Everything handheld. Night shots with a tripod.
5. No flash. Almost always available light.
6. Edit. Edit. Edit. And post-process. I spend tons of time in Lightroom editing and filtering images — trying to find thematic threads — and preforming ‘standard’ darkroom post-processing.

~ Craig Mod found via JORGE QUINTEROS

I just found an interesting read about Ways of Reading.