A harsh, but objective view on the new industry buzzword – the blockchain:

Nobody’s in charge, and you can’t change or delete anything, only view and input data.
The first, best-known – and practically only – use of blockchain technology is bitcoin, the digital currency that allows you to transfer money without the involvement of a bank.
There are now three mining pools which are responsible for more than half of all the new bitcoin (and also for checking payment requests). 
Blockchain generalises the bitcoin pitch: let’s not just get rid of banks, but also the land registry, voting machines, insurance companies, …
The only thing is that there’s a huge gap between promise and reality. It seems that blockchain sounds best in a PowerPoint slide. Most blockchain projects don’t make it past a press release

https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solution-for-almost-nothing/84495599980-95473476?mc_cid=ac542d3dec&mc_eid=6ff15a57b7

Just like Sheldon Cooper, I love lists. If I would make a list of things that I love, lists would be one of the first items. So here’s an awesome list of Laws, Principles, Mental Models, Cognitive Biases. One example:

“The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-concepts?mc_cid=5bdc7c6f5a&mc_eid=6ff15a57b7#cunninghams-law

Ronnie won his sixth World Snooker Championship. A week after, he sat together with Simon Hattenstone, the ghostwriter who helped him write his biography.

He was always regarded as the sport’s most naturally gifted player; now the consensus is that he’s the greatest.
Ronnie is called the Rocket for his speed and power. But there is also a sublime grace to his playing – the way he makes the cue ball dance, the delicacy with which he picks off balls and opens up the pack, his balance, the ability to swap from right to left hand depending on his shot or mood. In a sport not overly blessed with charismatic players, he has been the personality of snooker for a quarter of a century.
 In his 30s he became obsessed with middle-distance running. “A lot of the time I would think: ‘I don’t actually want to win this match because I’ve got a five-mile cross-country race I want to win back in Essex.’ Running became more important than snooker. 
Now, he is in a good place. He came off medication when he realised it was making him moody and he was taking it out on his son. He is sticking with natural serotonin – running. In lockdown he got himself a coach and has not looked back. “I can run for an hour, 7.45- to 8-minute miling. Running is my drug.” 
I ask him about the future, expecting him to talk about books, endorsements, punditry and a bit of snooker. “The one thing I thought I’d excel in was being in the care industry,” he says. Is he serious? He nods. “I can empathise with people in addiction”. 

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/aug/23/i-was-the-king-of-sabotage-ronnie-osullivan-on-controversy-comebacks-and-becoming-a-carer

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Just found an option in the settings of Malwarebytes 3.0 that made me think. It shouldn’t have, so I fixed it 🙂

Their version:

My version:

Update 7/Mar/2017: Read the follow-up to this post – Make the questions easy to answer

These are some notes that I took while skim-reading The Guide to Wireframing.

What are wireframes?
Wireframes connect the conceptual structure to the visual design of a website/app.
They communicate 3 main points:
– Content
– Structure / Information Hierarchy
– Behavior / Functionality

How to do wireframes?
– paper drawing (sketching)
– whiteboard drawing
– paper kits (cutouts)
– digital drawing (Wacom devices)
– word processing software (Word, Google Docs, etc)
– presentation software: PowerPoint, Keynote
– graphic design tools: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketch
– dedicated wireframing and prototyping tools: Balsamiq, proto.io, Axure, UXPin, InVision

Advantages of the dedicated wireframing tools
– element libraries
– flowcharting and user flows
– interaction with the wireframe: some wireframing tools offer the possibility to interact with the wireframes in order to showcase the behaviour (click-thgrough experience)
– collaboration (comments, feedback)
– presentation (pdf/ppt or standalone presentation mode)

Final point to remember
Delivering wireframes is not a goal in itself. The goal of wireframing is to deliver the final product, not the wirefames. So don’t aim for the perfect wireframe: as long as your wireframe delivers the intended message, move on.