44 Observations of a Web Designer

1. The Internet is just human beings preparing robots to dominate us.
2. Digg is proof that you can change your target audience from "Technology" to "Liberals who Love Cute Animals"
3. Shake hands and seal deals or live in a basement and be an awesome coder.
4. Making money and writing prettier code usually have nothing in common.
5. Trolling is proactive in not so obvious ways.
6. This list will likely prompt trolling.
7. Tip: Spend Time discovering ways to Save Time on your day-to-day operations.
8. The functionality for your great website idea is probably open-source somewhere
9. Google has grown up.
10. All my data belongs to old Google.
11. If Chrome had extension support...
12. Creativity is King. But Ambition let's Creativity live.
13. A great looking website is worth zilch if people are unable to use it successfully.
14. Too many website owners pay too little attention to their analytical data.
15. If you find yourself frequently editing text, you would be foolish to not use vim.
16. If Adobe is going too charge so much for Photoshop, most people will steal it.
17. Limewire is gross.
18. Real Player is grosser.
19. iTunes is grossest.
20. Eyeballs need to evolve a new method of moisturizing.
21. If you want to stand out as a professional web designer, wear bright clothes when you hit the bars.
22. Truth: Specialization is for Insects
23. As hard as it is to believe, people still fall for e-mail marketing.
24. Either learn how to speak in binary or use a CMS. Use a CMS.
25. Javascript frameworks are amazing!
26. Mac abuses the human nature to make snap judgements.
27. Convention is for sissies.
28. Being out in left field carries with it a degree of measurable appropriateness.
29. To appear smart is sometimes as easy as piecing together Latin word components to form new words.
30. Nobody knows that the huge, genius word you just used has not yet been added to Webster.
31. Every business is in the marketing field.
32. Twitter is handy, fascinating, and depressing all in one neat package.
33. 99% of people on Twitter feign interest in people they follow.
34. Many people are not fit to be their own boss. Many of these same people are not fit for a work environment either.
35. Bailouts are bad.
36. Lists, like this, possess something called "journalistic integrity"
37. Spread ideas.
38. Domains are comparable to real estate.
39. Other People are just as impatient as you are.
40. Other People have an average of a 6th grade reading level.
41. Other People do not want to think.
42. Cater to Other People to make money.
43. Web Design skills + some degree of charisma = success.
44. Rails is overrated. The logic behind rails, however, is not.