Welcome to Smarterware’s new look! (If you’re seeing this in your feed reader, pop open a browser tab, wouldya?) This little blog is now workin’ the internet runway sportin... Read more
Voting for SXSW Interactive panel proposals closes end-of-day tomorrow, and your little green thumbs-up counts for 30% of a panel’s chance of actually happening. Here’s the panel... Read more
You like looking at beautiful things? You’re in the right place. The full collection of pieces from my guest curator stint at online art gallery 20×200 is now available. Check out... Read more
Being a purveyor of technology links and a coder feels like the furthest thing from a museum curator, but my friend and gallery owner Jen Bekman asked me to choose eight of my favorite image... Read more
During their session at OSCON, Google programmers Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian Fitzpatrick say that it’s coders who can collaborate with others, not lone ranger geniuses, who are best... Read more
A new study indicates that imagining something is farther away than it is–either geographically or in time–changes the way your brain perceives it and actually increases creativi... Read more
In his latest essay, Paul Graham describes the difference between what he calls the maker’s schedule and the manager’s schedule. Makers–the writers, coders, designers, edit... Read more
Writer Dominic Ali came up with an unusual way to make office meetings more bearable–one that would make Ellen proud. In the comments of my recent post about meetings, Ali says: At my... Read more
I’ve always been an avid daydreamer–so much so that my mind can wander off at the most inopportune moments, like in the middle of a conversation. But I’ve always come up wi... Read more
At some point along the road I must’ve become one of these zealous open source nutters, because a debate about the GNU General Public License got stuck in my craw this weekend. The GPL... Read more
New York Times technology writer David Pogue offers a few of his biggest productivity tips, from working at home (thus avoiding a time-intensive commute) to using voice-to-text transcription... Read more
Inc. magazine’s “The Way I Work” feature profiles Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress, the software that runs this site. Even though the article byline was “by Matt... Read more
After six months almost 1,000 readers have registered for a commenter account here at Smarterware, either using Facebook Connect, OpenID, or just by creating an account. Obviously SW readers... Read more
Inbox Zero is a topic path well-trodden in the productivity blogosphere, but two books and a few blogs about personal productivity later, staying on top of my email is still a daily challeng... Read more
Comedian Chris Hardwick theorizes that the essence of having confidence is having options. That is, confidence is knowing that if this one thing you really really want doesn’t work out... Read more
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