Gary Murray – Product Lead

  • The Four Horsemen

    I came across this interesting presentation by Scott Galloway, a trademark analyst and founder of L2 on the strengths and weaknesses of Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook.

    His delivery style is fast, and I mean fast – so its just as well you can pause the video, take stuff in and replay sections if you want to analyse specific things he mentions in a bit more detail. Key outtakes from what he shares would have to be:

    • Google is not winning the mobile war
    • Amazon can’t sustain its online pure-play
    • Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp was a genius move
    • Apple has all the traits of a successful luxury brand – craftsmanship, exceptional price-point and self-expressive benefits

  • Moving beyond ‘drafts’

    I read this post today by my colleague at WooThemes – Dwain Maralak – and it really resonated with me – to the extent that it actually got me to write and publish my first post on this new site.

    His post got me thinking about the many reasons that I have not actually disabled the maintenance plugin on this site and put it out there for the world (okay probably a handful of friends) to read! I even started to create a list of the various ‘hurdles’ I sought to overcome in publishing this site – but ultimately as I looked at them they all had one similar theme: fear.

    The internet (which I love don’t get me wrong) has enabled us to access so much information so easily that it becomes too easy I find to compare myself to others who I feel are ‘making it’ and start to discount my own life experiences and knowledge as insufficient or boring.

    And so I plan to follow the advice of Nathan Barry to learn, share and create.

    So this site might not be perfect yet, it still lacks an about page and a whole lot of tweaks I would love to do as a designer, but as the title of the post says – I am moving beyond ‘drafts’.