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22nd June 2007

Making Happy

“I came across a link to Stefan Sagmeister’s presentation at TED more than once—and it lingered in a back tab of my browser waiting to be fired up. Usually this means I’ll get overwhelmed and just close everything down, but it took two reputable reads (Swiss Miss and Greg Storey) to force me to carve out the 15 minutes to watch it… The point is, I really enjoyed Stefan’s talk and I’m glad this material is available online. If you don’t have the time to watch it, here’s a list from Sagemeister’s diary: Complaining is silly. Either act or forget…”

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22nd June 2007

Welcome to the New, Agile FastCompany.com

“The brand new FastCompany.com homepage design that debuted today is sure to change quite a lot over the coming months. Not because we don’t love it — we do — but because we’re adopting a business strategy based on agile development, a movement embraced by the open-source software community. With agile, the idea is to move quickly, launching changes in a constant flow rather than accumulating a bucket of new features and releasing them all at once — what the software development community somewhat disparagingly calls a waterfall.”

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