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I'm saying disruption happens both ways: The innovators disrupt the laggards, but the innovators build up cruft and legacy over time and the laggards can side-step them and jump through revolutions.

We tend to get caught up in our own disruptions.

So the reason is because I have a black background color on body. When I said it's fixed, I just realized it's only fixed on Chrome Canary. It looks different on Chrome 18, and it looks different than that in Safari. Welcome to the Web. I'll try to fix it again after work.

Do you mean "awkward to scroll" from a performance perspective or from a not-being-able-to-see-the-scrollbar perspective?

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it :)

I acknowledge WebKit's monopoly on the mobile landscape today, I make no claim whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, that argument would distract from the reality that if you want to make a mobile web app work well, you need to build it on webkit and debug it on webkit

Thanks for the comment. Was there anything specific you could point me to that you felt was above your head? I'd love to do a follow-up with more introductory material.

When you go to "About Google Chrome", do you see something close to "Version 20.0.1114.0 canary"?

Thanks for letting me know, I didn't realize I broke that. I just pushed up a fix

Chromium is the open source project that powers Chrome, the browser. Chrome Canary is upstream of Chromium, which is an upstream of Chrome.

You actually bring up a good point, the webkit inspector right now is tied to the webkit project, and the barrier to contribution is prohibitively high. I've suggested to Paul Irish separating the two projects and making them more independent, though I'm not sure what the feasibility of that is.

I can either try to submit a patch and likely fail, or blog about it. Last time I complained to Google about Chrome, they filed 33 bugs and fixed many of them. The point here is to be an agent of change, not an agent of patches :)

Ah damn! I had both those on my outline but forgot to write about them :( I'll update the post. Thanks :D

I love the internet.

Thanks a lot for your comment, disagreement males you question your assumptions and strengthens your understanding of the issue.

Is there a body of research that supports your counter-claims? I'd love to read anything you can point me to.

It's interesting, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi specifically calls out this idea of listening to your "natural emotional reactions to our circumstances" in his book Flow.

Your point about kids made me think of this story (Found out about it through The Talent Code) > http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writings_tom.html

Csikszentmihalyi is saying that Happiness is a self-made choice. The quote from the dying people supported and added context to the same idea.

The Steve Jobs quote is probably the most unrelated, you're right. I included it because I felt that it gave a good practical example of what it means to introspect, judge, and measure your own fulfillment. The overarching idea I'm trying to get across is to drop the social pressure to "keep your head down, don't make a lot of noise, and you'll get your paycheck every two weeks".

I'm starting to realize that those who do what they love find more success than those who do what they "need" to do in the long term. I'm fairly sure that the children would also rather have parents who are having fun and are happy than those that are sad and bored but bring in an extra $20,000 a year.

I don't have children though, so I can't really empathize on a deep level, I'm just going by intuition.

Thanks for the link, glad you enjoyed the blog post!

I recently started out my first blog which has ever found any audience at all. The response has been amazing and it's been a very rewarding experience both personally and professionally, and I hope to keep it up.

I agree with most of the article's points, except when it comes to commenting. My thinking is that commenting systems often degrade into back-and-forth, one-on-one bickering and end up distracting from the main points being raised in the blog post.

The exception of course, would be technical blog posts, where comment threads often include more in depth tips, corrections, and tidbits of related information.

FYI, I added a demo section to the blog post with links to an Instagram demo.