Grant Gordon

These guys are the poster boys for how and why people spend their time online. If you’ve been following them at all, and what self-respecting tech person hasn’t been, then you’ve heard about the snafu with their music videos and their label. I’m not sure what they did, but I’m so glad they worked out something to unknot their ridiculous label’s panties.

In honor of this development, I’m embedding this video not only because it’s fantastic, but also because I can.

Just read this very impressive article. It speaks not only to Ben’s intelligence, but also to the things that Google is doing that have made it the runaway success it is today.

Check out the article here:
http://bentilly.blogspot.com/2010/01/things-ive-learned-at-google.html

Some quotes I liked:

Seriously, the corporate culture is based on hiring really smart people, giving them responsibilities, letting them know what problems the company thinks it should focus on, then letting them figure out how to tackle it.

It is as if an entire company intuitively understood that defect rates are tied to distance on the corporate org-chart, and tried to solve it by eliminating all barriers to people communicating directly with whoever they need to communicate with.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Ben!

I absolutely love this TED talk extolling the value of the user experience for your customers.

Epic Fail: American suburbia

Smashing Magazine does it again…

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/07/minimizing-complexity-in-user-interfaces/