Be the change you want to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No more BrB
BrB, the short form for “Be Right Back”, is commonly used in online conversation to tell the other person that you are going to be unavailable in the chat for a short period of time to do your housekeeping, meals, or even toilet breaks and etc.
Recently I realised that I have been using this term a whole lot less than I used to back in the Messenger days. The reason behind the precipitous drop in my usage of BrB wasn’t obvious to me until recently, when I used this term again in a Facebook Chat on my iPad.
Quite simply, online conversation does not live exclusively in the traditional on-the-desk personal computer environment anymore. Nowadays, computer is your smartphone, tablet, and of course your laptop PC that you still hug around. Conversation spans through multiple devices and could take place literally anywhere (this is true if you can bear bringing your phone into the washroom and use it while you’re pooping).
In that sense, BrB has become obsolete by the technological advances we make in the communication space. However, one additional, unforeseen problem arises along with the ubiquitousness of chatting platform. Have you noticed that a simple question to a close friend in an online conversation could take hours or even days to get a response back? Why is that so?
While technology and people changes, it seems that the immediacy in human-human interaction changes, too.
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一若牡丹盛开，她站起身来，走了，留下既非（是）又非（否）的答案。
— 2046
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Me and my brother, umpteen years ago, on his birthday (I guessed).
My mum always said that my look hasn’t changed much. What do you think?
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Ira Glass:
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.”
This is so, so true. It reminds me to never give up when it is too early, and always keep pushing through the boundaries until my work finally suits my taste.
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First time listening to a National LP. Seriously, it feels like a sober man singing lonely in a bar. But it feels good.
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Infographic: The Intricate Anatomy Of UX Design
THIS MEGA GRAPHIC ATTEMPTS TO TACKLE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UX AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF DESIGN.
Via FastCoDesign
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‘tsundoku’ - the Japanese word for buying books & not reading them, leaving them to pile up.
That happens to my iBooks now.
