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Adjust a photo’s levels to maximise your data

Not enough people understand those tricky level diagrams. Generally, move the white and black points to the edge of the data to get the most range out of the data in your photo.…

5 Aug 2013

Run further by running far away

If you stay close it’s just too tempting to cut it short. Give yourself no choice while you still feel good.…

4 Aug 2013

Incredibly, we only ever see one side of the moon

It shuffles a little, but you’ll notice you can always see the face. The mathematics of it are quite hard to fathom.…

3 Aug 2013

Iron less

It helps the environment and saves a great deal of hassle. Buy more easy-care, non-iron, quick-drying fabrics.…

2 Aug 2013

What gets measured gets better

In both a “great! we’re improving kind of way,” and also a “teaching to the test” kind of way. From Richard Hamming’s, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering.…

1 Aug 2013

Enough molehillls make a mountain quote from Seth Godin, showing how a book can be made up from a little writing or sketch a day, or a trash heap is made from small pieces of litter.

Enough molehills make a mountain

"Enough molehills make a mountain," —Seth Godin In both good and bad ways: A few minutes of writing each day or a sketch can end up as a book (like Big Ideas Little Pictures) One piece of litter from each of us ends up as a trash heap, or a small souvenir taken with you can mean nothing is left for anyone. Thanks to Seth Godin for sharing the simple power of one a day. Sketchplanations was founded on this principle. Also see: The power of streaks…"Enough molehills make a mountain," —Seth Godin In both good and bad ways: A few minutes of writing each day or a sketch can end up as a book (like Big Ideas Little Pictures) One piece of litter from each of us ends up as a trash heap, or a small souvenir taken with you can mean nothing is left for anyone. Thanks to Seth Godin for sharing the simple power of one a day. Sketchplanations was founded on this principle. Also see: The power of streaks

31 Jul 2013

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