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Making the Case for Accessibility — Postlight — Digital Product Studio

· February 23, 2020 · 1 minute to read

Making the Case for Accessibility

Common excuses:

  • “The legal precedent is fuzzy at best.”
  • “This affects such a small number of our users. Let’s focus on our core demographic.”
  • “It’s just too expensive.” “We’ve got to get this product out there: We’ll work on accessibility in our second release.”
  • “We’re already months (or years) along with a product that was designed and built without accessibility in mind. Now what?”
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Why Six Hours Of Sleep Is As Bad As None At All

· February 23, 2020 · 1 minute to read

Why Six Hours Of Sleep Is As Bad As None At All:

As you can imagine, the subjects who were allowed to sleep eight hours per night had the highest performance on average. Subjects who got only four hours a night did worse each day. The group who got six hours of sleep seemed to be holding their own, until around day 10 of the study.

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Accountability vs Complexity

· February 22, 2020 · 1 minute to read

Accountability vs Complexity:

invite folks to take collective responsibility for improving the system, rather than accountability for an outcome that they cannot control or predict

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Open source beyond the market

· February 10, 2020 · 1 minute to read

Open source beyond the market:

This is the snowball effect of finding meaning at work. You don’t just have a fixed pie of productivity to divide amongst your pursuits, be they commercial or open source. The pie expands and shrinks depending on your motivation and your mood. When one area of your life is contracting, it often shrinks all the other areas along with it. And when one part of your life is expanding, others often follow too.

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Backend distributed systems developer, living in southern Ontario, Canada. Occasional rock-climber, frequent video-gamer. Jack of no trades, master also of none.

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