2. HiJohn PolacekSenior DeveloperDraftfcb Chicago 3. All the
Thingsjohnpolacek.com/prototype 4. An Idea Aloneis not cool stuff
5. Go to Subway withan idea and see if they willgive you a
sandwich. Jason Fried Founder of 37signals 6. The magic isnot the
idea.It is what you do with it. 7. Lets Look AtSome Cool Stuff 8.
$49.90toys.brando.com 9. 3D PrintingFace scanned using a nextengine
scanner nextengine.comprinted on a z-corp Spectrum Z 510 3D printer
zcorp.com/en/home.aspx 10. 3D Printing 11. Makerbot Replicator
Printrbot$1749$799 12. Raspberry Pi Arduino $25~$50 13. Robot
Soccer 14. Synthetic BiologyBiohacking 700 TB of Data700 x 1 Gram
of DNA 15. Cool Kids Stuff 16. Cool Learning Stuff 17. Holy ShitIts
a goddamn Hover Bike. 18. Cool Web StuffThats more my thing. 19.
jQuery, Websockets, geolocation, Responsive Web Design,Mobile
First, Content First, Style Tiles, Web Apps, Github,Single Page
Sites, APIs, REST, Touch, Canvas, WebGL, SVG,Raphael, Infographics,
JSON, mustache, CSS Transforms,NoSQL, Cloud DB, webfonts, AMD,
pub/sub, getUserMedia,node.js, clojure, data visualization,
localStorage, three.js, d3,Meteor, Modernizr, Chrome Dev Tools,
Angular, TwitterBootstrap, Video.js, impress.js, Heroku, AWS 20. +
APIsGoogle, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, YouTube, Maps, LinkedIn,
Klout, Flickr, Yelp,Foursquare, Dropbox, Stripe, Vimeo, Yammer,
ESPN, Census Bureau, Bing, bit.ly, Tumblr, duckduckgo 21. Im not..
22. Grant Thomas PolacekDecember 6, 2011 23. If you build it (and
talk about it)They will come. 24. BuildingCool StuffTactics For
Success 25. Challenge Domains 26. Really Big Ideas?Break them down
into smaller ideas 27. Follow Your WhimsTired of it? Drop it.Build
the next cool thing. 28. ABPAlways Be Prototyping 29. The key to
beinga good developer is to be really good at Google.- Abraham
Lincoln 30. Read 31. Listen 32. L00k 33. Learn 34. Subscribe 35.
Aggregate 36. Collect 37. Plan 38. Share 39. Chicago 40. Increase
YourLuck Surface AreaDo and Tell 41. Be Bolder ThanYou Want To Be
42. Have A FocusFigure out what stuffreally grabs your attention
43. My FocusFun and a little silly. 44. Whats YourCool Stuff? 45.
Thanks!johnpolacek.com/[email protected]
