The thing about being in the zone is that when you’re in the zone, you can’t be writing about being in the zone.
It’s similar situation with status messages. On Twitter proper, you are asked, “What’s Happening?” As soon as you start typing, you are no longer doing what you’re doing (which was the old question on Twitter), but tweeting instead.
In an effort to achieve as much efficiency as possible, I’ve tried time and time again to write a memoir while living it out, and that’s probably one of the largest roadblocks I’ve ran into.
This is why this post is probably going to be one of the last time I talk about the zone. I’m not here to write a top 10 list of how to stay in the zone, but instead to just bask in the zone myself.
Oh, and by the way, expect more short personal posts. If I can’t be myself on my own freaking blog, then I’ve got issues.
Categories: Personal, Roadblocks.
Tags: meta
By joshkim
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February 1, 2010 at 10:38 PM
Indie developers, indie musicians, indie authors.
App Store, iTunes Store, Kindle Store. iPad, iPhone, Kindle.
I don’t really want to talk or read or think about this anymore. It seriously hurts my head.
All the while, nothing is getting done. I’m getting more knowledgeable on the issues, but man, it’s just a huge time vacuum.
Categories: Apple, Content and Media, Web Applications.
Tags: indie
By joshkim
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February 1, 2010 at 8:26 PM
From the Archives: A Revealing Interview With Steve Jobs
Rolling Stones interview with Steve Jobs. In 1994.
“To make step-function changes, revolutionary changes, it takes that combination of technical acumen and business and marketing — and a culture that can somehow match up the reason you developed your product and the reason people will want to buy it. I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.”
Categories: Apple.
Tags: interview, steve-jobs
By joshkim
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February 1, 2010 at 4:04 PM
A bit of spoiler, but I don’t think I’m giving too much away. Besides, these days, I think I’m in the minority of people who watch Saturday Night Live fairly regularly and care about it.
I was very pleasantly surprised by this week’s episode, which can be summed up by this line.
“Wait a second… You’re the frigging Closet Organizer guy, aren’t you?”
I don’t remember a time when a multi-sketch callback was used on Saturday Night Live. Monty Python’s Flying Circus had a couple here and there, and HBO’s Mr. Show had only sketch transitions with callback.
But in Saturday Night Live? Someone comment if they have seen it before. I’d like to find that episode and watch it.
Callbacks in sketch shows make me enjoy the show all the more. I’d like to think that more effort was made to ensure that all associated sketches would melt harmoniously into one giant ball of funny. In this instance, Will Forte’s and Jon Hamm’s characters reliving the past infomercial sketch, followed by the suggestion to go home and help clean out a closet… hilarious.
Just wanted to share. Here it is on Hulu.
Categories: Shows.
Tags: hulu, jon hamm, monty python, mr. show, S35E13, saturday night live, snl
By joshkim
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January 31, 2010 at 9:54 PM
Kindle Software Update Version 2.3
We roll wireless software updates out in batches to groups of users to make sure everything goes smoothly. If your Kindle has not yet received the most recent software update, rest assured that you’ll receive it wirelessly in the next few weeks.
Not knowing this, I sat around trying to figure out why the heck PDFs were not showing up on my Kindle.
At one point, I did go into settings to find that “Update My Kindle” option to be greyed out. So I assumed it was up to spec, and starting messing around elsewhere.
Turns out, the magic pdf happiness starts with 2.3. And I only had 2.2.
It wasn’t 100% clear, and so this is why I post this here. Go to the update page on your computer, download the update file on your computer, place it on the root folder, and then click on “Update My Kindle”.
It would make sense for the 10.4 MB update to be available without the help of a computer by clicking “Update My Kindle” whenever an update was available, but I wonder if this is disabled because of needing to pay for the 3G bandwidth. It’s a bit annoying, but it’s not like there are point releases happening all that frequently.
Now back to saving trees, one “book” at a time.
Categories: Gadgets & Toys.
Tags: 2.3, kindle, pdf, upgrade
By joshkim
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January 30, 2010 at 12:41 AM