I’ve followed Adam’s work for a while, and I think at some point or another I’ve encouraged everyone I know to listen to You Look Nice Today. It is not just the funniest thing I’ve found on the internet in a long while, it’s also one of the most consistently funny things I’ve found.

Back to my point about the link – the basis of the interview is a discussion about Adam breaking away from his job, and chasing down projects that were more fulfilling to him. He shares a lot of great advice about realizing why you got into the field you are in, and if it isn’t currently fulfilling, how to rediscover why you got into it in the first place.

Anyway… why are you still reading this. Go listen.

Here’s more info in case you wanted to see more (link contains the video as well).

The thing I didn’t count on in removing this, is that there are a lot of acquaintances and friends that I speak to infrequently enough, that Facebook gives me a way for them to contact me, even if I don’t happen to exist in their immediate monkeysphere.  So… I am back on Facebook. Experiment failed, although I do still think some of my original points stand.

I have kept my original rant in it’s entirety below, feel free to read and laugh at my naivety.

First off – I did not do this for the privacy angle that has been snagging a lot of headlines recently. I really didn’t care that they were targeting advertising at me, and it’s never bothered me that ad companies knew what movies I liked or what books I read. In fact, I almost welcome that. If I have to look at ads, I’d prefer that they are something I’m interested in.

For me it was much more about raising the difficulty for people to contact me and improving my social interactions. It was also about keeping a better boundary between things such as my work life and my personal life.

It seems counterintuitive at first to remove myself from a social site in order to improve my social life, but I really do think it is important. I think that sites like Facebook give people a false impression of connecting with each other. Old friends and neighbors get put on a list and suddenly you’ve “reconnected”. Regardless of the fact that you then promptly ignore each other.

I’m hoping that making it harder for me to reach will make it a more meaningful interaction when someone does reach me. (Look at me being all sappy and sentimental.)

Some people reading this may be aware that I’ve been working in my spare time on a social networking site of my own called RoyalAnts. This experience has made me think a lot harder about how interactions on that site should be. I think it’s really helped me focus on what is important in a social site, and something that a lot of them miss – getting people to really interact with each other. Most importantly – making these connections real, not just a friend count.

So, that’s my rant about that. Questions, comments, insights on this? Please comment below or shoot me an email.

Although the icons in the dock remaining in portrait orientation when the phone is in landscape mode is bewildering. Very unlike Apple. (Here’s an Ars Technica article with an example shot in it.)

Alright…alright… enough Apple nerdery for today. Next post I’ll try to come up with something that doesn’t make me look as much like a giant fanboy.

Walt then asks him why he built that operating system on a phone first instead of a tablet. Jobs then drops a reveal: “I’ll tell you a secret. It started on a tablet first.”

Read the rest of the article at cnn.com

As I have done before in the past, I am going to be running a blog on this site again. I’ll try to bring some interesting ideas, concepts, etc to this site, so stay tuned.

I am currently working on updating the theme to incorporate the look and feel that will be consistent with the main http://www.adamwelling.com site, so please excuse the lack of a good theme here for right now.

If you think of something interesting you’d like to see my commentary on, please leave a comment or email me.