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Neat ideas for improving email clients such as detecting/organizing/displaying emails into project- and task-based threads and visualizing the thread structure of a given email thread. Good luck getting people to use this stuff, though.

There's no known point at which more aerobic exercise will start to be detrimental, which means that we should just go ahead and do as much exercise as we can.

Build your admin panel, implement CMS features, and have a good metrics dashboard and logger.

The default startup business model for 2010 and beyond will be subscriptions and transactions -- not growth/acquisition and advertising.

Graphical user interfaces are full of symbols. Symbols need to be reduced to their essence. This helps avoid cluttering the user interface with meaningless distractions, and makes it easier for people to «read» the symbol and figure out the meaning of an interface element. Realistic details can get in the way of what you’re trying to communicate to your users.

It would be good if more women got in the habit of raising their hands and saying “I can do that. Sign me up. My work is awesome,” no matter how many people that behavior upsets.

The appeal of bundling is partly that it reduces transaction costs: instead of having to figure out how much each part of a package is worth to you, you can make a blanket judgment. Bundling eliminates the problem of fretting about small expenditures, which may be one reason that flat-rate pricing is very common in the vacation industry. It also offers what economists call option value: you may never watch those sixty other channels, but the fact that you could if you wanted to is worth something. Many consumers also perceive bundles as bargains; getting a bunch of things for one price feels like a deal, even when it’s not.

The hard part of writing isn’t the writing; it’s the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

An example of how a Presenter helps keep controllers thin, especially when an action needs to pull up objects of many different kinds of models using different criteria.

When McCain surrendered to Palin, it was his last - and unintended - blow to a sane or responsible conservatism. Non-believing people have a hard time swallowing all this. It seems so wacko. Religious people who have had any experience of fundamentalism in their lives know it all too well.