Discuss: Staying Motivated
by Kevin Cornell
- Editorial Comments
2 Great ideas
Especially love the “be unrealistic” and “get out of the house” (or office) ideas. Sometimes a steeper hill and a change of scenery ARE what it takes to shake out of, or off a plateau.
Thanks…will recommend to others, as well.
posted at 06:15 am on August 14, 2007 by Jan Richards
3 Thank you from the spanking :)
It’s so easy the get pulled away to read articles about motivation, RSS, or just wander the web, when the best solution would be just start working.
posted at 06:31 am on August 14, 2007 by Lasse Larvanko
4 Surround yourself with crazy people
That’s a kind of external and internal stimulation at once, the crazy people help your internal ideas to come out by not being blocked by thinking of being normal so much.
posted at 07:10 am on August 14, 2007 by Kevin Hope
5 More on how to stay motivated
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/55-how-to-stay-motivated
posted at 08:16 am on August 14, 2007 by Bah bah
6 Is it me, or is ALA becoming fluffier and fluffier?
It seems that recently we are getting more and more fluffy articles and less technical ones. Is that because there’s nothing left to discover with CSS, or the result of [gulps] market research?
I didn’t enjoy this article at all. To paraphrase Duke Ellington’s (?) quote about swing: “if you need to read articles about it, you ain’t got it”
posted at 11:03 am on August 14, 2007 by fritz from london
7 Re: Is it me, or is ALA becoming fluffier and fluffier?
It’s you. ;)
Seriously, though, not every article hits every reader’s sweet spot (or can). If you have no problem getting and staying motivated, rock on with your bad self. But many of us do have problems staying inspired and productive; articles like Kevin’s help.
More broadly, if ALA is not “amazing CSS trick of the week,” that doesn’t mean there are no new horizons in CSS. It means professional webmaking is about more than just great code. Articles about information architecture, writing, design, and so on may be fluff to you, but they are not fluff to many other web professionals who read this magazine.
In the late 90s and early 00s, we focused more often on web standards (and on the kind of articles that would generate excitement about web standards) because somebody had to. Those battles are not over, but history (and best practices) are now on our side, allowing A List Apart to once again broaden its coverage of professional web design and development.
posted at 11:08 am on August 14, 2007 by Jeffrey Zeldman
8 Fair enough...
I am not knocking articles writing, design and the rest of it, but I do miss some of the more technical articles you guys used to publish.
This is not to say ALA is not a great site though, and thanks for the time and effort you put into it.
posted at 11:37 am on August 14, 2007 by fritz from london
9 Comment
Jeffrey I fully agree with Your comment for me the best part of Your commnet is: “In the late 90s and early 00s, we focused more often on web standards (and on the kind of articles that would generate excitement about web standards) because somebody had to. Those battles are not over, but history (and best practices) are now on our side, allowing A List Apart to once again broaden its coverage of professional web design and development.” btw. I want to thank Kevin for really great article (I like the ideas You write for me some of them are really brilliant!) and I’m waiting for another one from You!
posted at 12:34 pm on August 14, 2007 by Tomek Gorski
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To me There just one word: Be a Zealot~
posted at 04:36 am on August 14, 2007 by solorez fer