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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

BICEPS: Six Core Needs for Humans at Work

How do you feel about your work at the moment? Do you enjoy what you are doing? Do you feel excited about it? Does it give you a sense of accomplishment and significance? Do you feel valued and are part of a great team? Do you enjoy your role as a leader or the choices you h...

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Sitting on the balcony. It’s finally cooling down again at night. Listening to Purple Hill Witch. Drinking a cold beer. Culling photos for the September 2019 entry. It was the holiday month. Struggling a little going through that many images.

Purple Hill Witch - Purple Hill Witch (Full Album 2014)
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Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Fading Music in and Out in an Online Workshop (On a Mac)

When it became increasingly clear that running in-person workshops would not be possible for the foreseeable future, the XDI team, which I am a part of, started to work on online versions of our Adobe XD workshops for beginners and advanced users. The resulting workshops are...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

How I Structure My CSS (for Now)

When it comes to structuring CSS, there is no shortage of different naming conventions, methodologies, and architectures. Be it BEM, OOCSS, SMACSS, ITCSS, or CUBE CSS – over the last years, many different approaches to managing modular CSS have emerged. Some are offering str...

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Now that Zoe and I got our first band photos, we should probably start an actual band, too. Photos by Sina Frantzen.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Halftime

This is post number 50 of my 100-days-of-writing challenge. It’s halftime! Time for me to look at how this little (?!?) experiment worked out so far and what I might have learned or experienced since I started back in May. First of all, the obvious: Writing a post every day...

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🎥 3 Minutes Of Basketball

3 Minutes Of Basketball

This morning, I had time to play some basketball. So I went to the court to throw a few throws (like I said I would).

I was pleased to notice that my throwing hasn’t gotten completely terrible after years of not playing. I spontaneously recorded 3 minutes of it.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Gall’s Law

In 1963, the people at NASA needed a building. And not just any building. It had to be large enough to be able to assemble the enormous space vehicles NASA designed as part of their massive effort to send astronauts to the Moon. The building that was completed in 1966 allowe...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Finite and Infinite Games

According to James P. Carse, there are at least two types of games: Finite games and infinite games. Finite games have a clear beginning and end, a distinct set of rules and boundaries, and we play them for one purpose: to win. Take any match of chess, tennis, football, or S...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Range

What is the right strategy to achieve greatness and succeed in a specific domain? If you believe the predominant narrative in many efficiency-oriented societies today, the answer is clear: Focus on one thing early in life to have a head start and invest at least the famous 1...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Lateral Thinking With Withered Technology

One evening in the late 1970s, an engineer from Kyoto was riding home on the Shinkansen, when he recognized the man sitting next to him playing around with his LCD calculator, punching buttons in boredom. The engineer, who worked at a toy and gaming company, had an idea: Wha...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

The Idea Machine

I used to dream of a magical machine. It was about as big as a microwave, all silver metal (with rivets, of course), and it had little knobs, lamps, and indicators everywhere. On the left, there were two buttons: One was green and the other one red. On the right, the machine...

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Hell Yeah or No

Derek Sivers just published a new book. It is called “HELL YEAH OR NO” and you can get it on Derek’s website. Having enjoyed Derek’s blog articles and podcast a lot, buying his book, which also includes an audio version, was a no-brainer for me. Derek is a musician, producer...

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📄 New Macbook Keyboard

Recently, I had my Mac’s keyboard replaced. Because, unsurprisingly, I started having regular double-types, which got increasingly annoying. Luckily, Apple acknowledges the problem and offers a free repair program.

Matthias Ott
• Matthias Ott

Progressive

Ethan Marcotte wrote this on Twitter on Monday: Nos­tal­gia for the hey­day of web design has to be bal­anced with the knowl­edge that much of what we did ​“in the old days” was woe­ful­ly, thor­ough­ly...