![]() That narrative will be better for everyone. They’ll learn that Jack Dorsey invented the Web so that he and Sheryl Sandberg could release Twitter for the iPhone. I’m soothed to know that those children will learn a much simpler version of history, one without all the little human conflicts and confusions. Funny what lodges in your long-term memory, especially given that I cannot remember if my children were born in 2010 or 2011. It lets you have both uppercase and lowercase characters. Most URLs were case-insensitive since people would be typing them in. I remember especially one of the sites because the URL contained the word “Ouch,” capitalized-which was a little orthographic peculiarity. I think of it every single time I open up OmniGraffle. Very few of us had seen or participated in Internet Drama before that point. This led to a battle of slow-moving personal website updates about very powerful emotions, along with tertiary updates from other involved parties on their own personal websites, and yet other websites that covered this romantic meltdown like breaking news. Both parties had personal websites (this was before blogs), and one of them was hosted on The Omni Group’s servers. Incidentally, one of the most severe memories I have of the early web was from 1997 or 1998, when someone at The Omni Group broke up with someone else at The Omni Group. One little tippy-tippy-tap and a million kids get braces. Imagine being one single keypress away from that much human happiness. The power! If there was an email chain about Amazon warehouse worker safety and salary, Jeff Bezos could decide to enter a “?” into the email client on his Kindle Fire, and as a consequence as many as 800,000 people in the warehouses-a population larger than Seattle’s-I mean actually it’s 800,000 families, so millions of people-would find themselves better off. Imagine being able to move all of Amazon with one ASCII symbol. A true manager goes the the whiteboard and draws a single horizontal line without labels, looks at their team, pauses for a long time, then says, “There it is.”ĭid you know that Jeff Bezos, perhaps the truest manager since Robert McNamara, sometimes jumps in on email chains and just adds a single question mark ? No one knows what he means when he does it, but the reaction is immense and immediate. A true manager creates decks where each slide has one word. As you become more of a manager you sketch with ever-larger pixels. I really only use a few rectangles these days. I graffle only very few days each year, because the thing for which I used it-drawing complex, many-layered web platform architectures-is no longer much of my job. I still keep my OmniGraffle payments up to date, partly because I like to sing “every day I’m ‘grafflin” every time I open it. When the doctor tells me to go to my happy place, here is where I go: ![]() Well actually I mostly use it as a diagramming tool, sometimes when I’m teaching. There is OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, and my much-beloved OmniGraffle, which is a diagramming tool but so, so much more. Then Apple bought NeXT and based Mac OS X on their operating system, so over the ensuing years The Omni Group made a lot of Mac products that I loved to pay for, back in the days when you would buy software instead of either getting it for free or paying thousands of dollars to subscribe to it (with nothing in between except the refund they give you when Facebook buys the company and shuts it down). Originally it was a firm that made software for the NeXT computer. Bananabears, the Seattle firm The Omni Group has been around for a long time in software.
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