The capacity to make constructive use of our inmost feelings…
…and what they call the “Six Basic Principles of Maturity”.
- Accept yourself. “You’re on the road to maturity if you can begin to appreciate yourself without trying to be what you cannot possibly be.” The CEOs who failed at Apple did so because they wanted to be another “Steve Jobs.” They couldn’t accept themselves and their own, different capabilities and shortcomings.
- Accept others. “Your relations with other people are a basic test of your maturity. If you don’t get along well with others, it’s not because you’re not smart enough, or because you’re smart and they’re dumb. It’s because you still need to grow up in some vital centers of your being.” For example, there are companies in Silicon Valley that maintain a “tyranny of PhDs” where only the advanced degreed are held in high esteem and marketing, operations, and others are fodder.
- Keep your sense of humor. “Your humor reflects your attitudes toward people. The mature person uses humor not as a bludgeoning hammer but rather as a plane to shave off rough edges.”
- Accept simple pleasures. “The capacity to get excited over things even when they seem ordinary to others—this is a sign of a healthy personality.” For example, some tech entrepreneurs have yachts that can barely pass under the Golden Gate Bridge. (I’d just be happy if I could skate backwards.)
- Enjoy the present. “Emotional grown-ups don’t live on an expectancy basis. They plan for the future, but they know they must also live in the present. The mature person realizes that the best insurance for tomorrow is the effective use of today.”
- Welcome work. “Appreciation of work is a hallmark of mature people…. Immature people are constantly fighting certain aspects of their work. They resent routine reports, or meetings, or correspondence. They allow these annoyances to grate on their nerves continually. Satisfaction in doing a good job is blocked out by the dust speck in the eye of resentment over trivia.”
Digg Mobile
Digg have launched a collection of mobile friendly sites, all accessbile at diggriver.com/about, covering technology to sports stories. The mark-up is pure and design simple, allowing it to load on a mobile device as quickly as possible.
This site is an experiment to see how we can make digg news easily available to mobile web browsers. You can read the news on a Blackberry, Treo, or cell phone on the train, in the line at the grocery, or in a boring meeting.
Simple is better. Thanks TechCrunch.
Accessibility law suit hits Target
UPDATE: Whilst advocates of accessibility find this news very interesting or exciting, Joe Clarke calls for calm with the use of some facts.
SOURCE Royal National Institute of the Blind
A landmark ruling in the States for web accessibility as www.target.com is successfully sued by the National Federation of the Blind under the American Disabilities Act (ADA).
The court has ruled that “clicks” as well as “bricks”, are covered by the US Americans Disability Act (ADA) and E- commerce is now a “place of public accommodation”.
The full new release reads: (more…)
CSS Frames v2, full-height
Roger Johansson gives us a great demo / tutorial on creating a frame effect using CSS. This is particularly timely as I have been considering this technique for an up-coming project at Jadu.
“I’ve prepared two example documents to show the difference. In Example 1, the layout is fully fluid, so #header and #footer are 100 % wide. In Example 2 the layout is 40 ems wide, and the widths of both #header and #footer are set to that same value.” - Roger
Both examples also demonstrate elastic layout as well as graceful degradation. As maybe expected there are comments regarding IE6 but I think it’s still pretty safe.