An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.
If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.
The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay.
You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.
Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.
To create a usable piece of software, you have to fight for every fix, every feature, every little accommodation that will get one more person up the curve. There are no shortcuts. Luck is involved, but you don't win by being lucky, it happens because you fought for every inch.
Six Seconds is a great read. Echoing Ludlum and Forsythe, author Mofina has penned a big, solid international thriller that grabs your gut -- and your heart -- in the opening scenes and never lets go.
There's so many people telling you what you should look like, what you shouldn't look like, what clothes you should be wearing, whether you're too fat or too thin, you're hair should be this shape. . . you're bombarded. So, I like films that show girls going through that quagmire and coming out the other side really confident in themselves and strong in themselves.
The way I did it, every job was A+.
When wrong people leave your life, wrong things stop happening