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From an Opinion piece in the New York Times by Susan Cain.

“But it’s one thing to associate with a group in which each member works autonomously on his piece of the puzzle; it’s another to be corralled into endless meetings or conference calls conducted in offices that afford no respite from the noise and gaze of co-workers. Studies show that open-plan offices make workers hostile, insecure and distracted. They’re also more likely to suffer from high blood pressure, stress, the flu and exhaustion. And people whose work is interrupted make 50 percent more mistakes and take twice as long to finish it.”

Very interesting…

There are more plants than people in the Planet Argon studio, and we felt it was time to tell their story.

Smart advice on how to present written information to your users.

Earlier today, Gary came across an article about an escaped alligator pet in Portland and mentioned it out loud to the team. Jack overheard this and responded, “I’m the one who found it.” He then pointed us to this article in a local newspaper blog about the event.

Jakob Nielsen shares some insights into the how long you have to capture your audience’s attention.

“The probability of leaving is very high during these first few seconds because users are extremely skeptical, having suffered countless poorly designed Web pages in the past. People know that most Web pages are useless, and they behave accordingly to avoid wasting more time than absolutely necessary on bad pages.”

The folks over at Adaptive Path have released an iPad app, which currently includes over 100 talks from their conferences about User Experience, the web, games, and creative teams.

Definitely worth checking out and enjoying over coffee for the next several Sunday mornings.

“And please, despite what I said earlier, do not +1, tweet, StumbleUpon, like or comment on this article. You’ll only be making it worse.”

Paul Graham shares some figures from the past six years of running Y Combinator (316 startups). An interesting read…

Check out this podcast from The Changelog where you can listen to Robby Russell share the story of oh-my-zsh. Learn more about the popular open source project as well as his thoughts on Open Source and Planet Argon.

The Changelog is “a weekly podcast and blog that covers what’s fresh and new in Open Source.”

Really impressive! Looks best in Chrome or Safari.