There are a lot of Web 2.0 folks out there competing for the gold medal in online To do list application. There’s a clear winner. It’s Todoist. Why? For starters—and this is precisely why I realized I had to actually blog about the service as opposed to just use it—rather than just import it into my iGoogle home page, I just made it my home page on all my machines. It’s that useful. The first thing I want to see when I wake up is Todoist.

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[ This was a recent comment that I made on Slashdot. But I was so thrilled with the point I made, I decided it needed to go up here too ]

The real economic factor that so many firms miss is that good design makes a profit. I’m talking about software design, product design, automobile design. Once an object loses its status as some unique category it becomes a commodity. Once it becomes a commodity people become more concerned with price. Design something really well and it gains in personal value and loses the stigma of commodity. Invest in design (and maybe use a real design firm like Apple does) and you will be rewarded for it. Read more…

There is no other individual whose insights on software design had a greater affect on my life (through my use of computers — macs) and on my philosophy (through my own interface design and programming). Jef Raskin’s simple principles in Humane Interface are something that absolutely any programmer should be familiar with. Personally, my favorite Apple folkore story about him was this one