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		<title>The habit of ideas and 10 more places I go for creative inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the habit of ideas is to feed your appetite for more of them. I've talked before about places for creative inspiration. 

Today, I share 10 more. The list is varied, but what they all have in common is an unyielding devotion to showing up regularly with great writing and solid ideas.
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		<title>How to do design (and how not to)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With his usual aplomb, Marco Arment&#8217;s sage advice on design applies as much to platforms as it does to other products. Good design is what you&#8217;re left with after you&#8217;ve said &#8220;no&#8221; to a lot of things. How to bring good design to a platform Demonstrate from the top that high quality and attention to detail [...]
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		<title>Remembering Steve, a Switcher tells his story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this sad news today, let me share with you something personal. I was one of the people who appeared in the original batch of Apple “Switch” ads, back in 2002. They ran for a little while on TV and elsewhere (a decade later and surprisingly it&#8217;s still not hard to find the entire series [...]
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		<title>The hardest thing I&#8217;ve learned</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<title>How not to break bad news</title>
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		<dc:creator>Patrick Gant</dc:creator>
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		<title>Ten years of innovation in a single photo</title>
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		<title>The company that almost bought Google</title>
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