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I just posted this on GigaOm: Emails, tweets, notifications, text and instant messages, Facebook status updates, Path moments — all these are new tools of communication when taken together are notification hell. These notifications prey on human desire for a dopamine fix. And just as we are over-caffenited, I think the 21st century is quickly making us over-notified. (I think this is my second new phrase of the week – the first one being aspriational escape velocity)

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I have been a big fan of Nooka’s watch designs so when I saw they released a new app for the iPhone, I promptly downloaded. It is a pretty amazing little app that visualizes the concept of time in a fresh and fun manner. Just check out this video and you will know. It is worth the 99 cents (though there a free version as well.)

Chris Mahan in the comments below points out that one of the key points of Mark Zuckerberg’s memo has been part of programming ethos for a long time. He links to a 1994 article in the Linux Journal where a group of Bell Labs researchers working on the UNIX operating system made a list of four principles.

Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features. Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous information. Avoid stringently columnar or binary input formats. Don’t insist on interactive input. Design and build software, even operating systems, to be tried early, ideally within weeks. Don’t hesitate to throw away the clumsy parts and rebuild them. Use tools in preference to unskilled help to… Continue readingContinue reading Zuckerberg’s The Hacker Way vs The Unix Developers’ Principles