Posted on March 22, 2009, 3:56 pm, by josephrueter, under Broken.
I wish they cared but they don’t.
I have a 12 foot target (porch) on my house and the delivery person can’t hit it! If newspapers really cared about the news they’d fix that. They don’t care about the news.
I quit the Star Tribune and they’ve likely spent more money calling me twice a week [...]
Bus as Car Replacement Transportation? Not quite yet, but it could be.
I got on a Metro Transit (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) bus not knowing where it was going or how to use it a number of times in the last month. I have never ever had the problems I have had in my own city [...]
Today, I decided I had had enough. I finally decided that my attempts at simplicity had just got to complex. This thing intended to make reading blogs simple, rss ( really simple syndication) was just a monster in my Safari browser.
Recently, I started following quite-a-few more feeds. Safari shows numbers in the bookmarks bar for [...]
Posted on April 21, 2008, 1:15 am, by josephrueter, under Broken, User Focused.
I received a reply to the email I sent my favorite place to stay on the North Shore of Lake Superior. After I read it I could only think that people running companies need to be people first before they are “running the company.” I feel like we need classes or training camps on how [...]
Posted on April 21, 2008, 12:38 am, by josephrueter, under Broken, Design.
I once herd an administrator at a revered design school talk about the goal of the school being the redefinition of “design.” He said they were intent on changing the role of designers. In the past designers found their place at the end of the process deciding how to make things look good. To this [...]
Posted on April 16, 2008, 2:45 pm, by josephrueter, under Broken, Godin.
Seth Godin in his book “Small is the New Big” writes on page 52, “What people are afraid of isn’t Failure. It’s blame. Criticism.” Interesting, I thought. Most people in my experience defiantly default to a Fear of Failure excuse when explaining why they do what they do or don’t do what they know they [...]
Broken: my Target experience
So, in my house I now refer to Target as the war zone. In all reality however, I have an affection for Target but dang it can be hard to go there. If I have five things on my list when I go there I have 5 wars to fight with Target. [...]