June 2009
1 post
February 2009
2 posts
“Get ramen profitable. “Ramen profitable” means a startup makes just...”
– Startups in 13 Sentences
January 2009
1 post
Mr. President (You’re The Man) by Brother...
October 2008
2 posts
Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy →
“So if you want to improve your chances, you should think far more about who you can recruit as a cofounder than the state of the economy. And if you’re worried about threats to the survival of your company, don’t look for them in the news. Look in the mirror.”
Seth's Blog: Is effort a myth? →
“And that’s the key to the paradox of effort: While luck may be more appealing than effort, you don’t get to choose luck. Effort, on the other hand, is totally available, all the time.”
September 2008
6 posts
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending →
Article from 1999
How Wall Street Lied to Its Computers →
“Lying to your risk-management computer is like lying to your doctor. You just aren’t going to get the help you really need.”
iTunes 8: How to Remove Genre from Browser View in... →
WTF? I just had to fire up terminal to remove the annoying genre browser in itunes 8
Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize →
“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”
Cargo Cult Management →
“Hit the BUSINESS section of your local bookstore for insights into why cargo cult management runs so rampant — it’s hard to find authors who understand the difference between causation and correlation.”
August 2008
6 posts
Reinventing news on the web →
“While the water cooler variety of news has dominated the past, there is an opportunity to deliver a different sort of news — news which helps consumers make better decisions. Massive volumes of publicly available data, cheap compute cycles and storage, and ontologies like the social graph have lowered the cost for reinventing the news market.”
Are Users Dumb? →
“Are users dumb? User interface design is not about dumbing things down for the poor stupid user.
We software developers, understanding the software as we do, find it easy to look down upon those who lack our understanding.
This is wrong.
Users aren’t dumb. They just have better things to do with their lives than memorizing the internal data model of our screwy software.
When software is...
July 2008
5 posts
“Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
– Malachy McCourt (via gregnews)
As E-bay is to auctions, E-Lottery would be to... →
Love the idea, I wonder how nasty the legal issues would be.
It's All Too Much →
“If the stuff you accumulate isn’t actively helping get you closer to a life you truly want, then it’s getting in the way, and it needs to go. Period.
The biggest change in attitude this book made in my life was to teach me not to generate false relevance by “organizing” stuff I don’t want or will never need. Organization is what you do to stuff that you need,...
Correlative Analytics, the Google Way of Science →
“In the coming world of cloud computing perfectly good answers will become a commodity. The real value of the rest of science then becomes asking good questions.”
June 2008
7 posts
Congrats Otis and Elizabeth! →
How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain →
“The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer’s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man’s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the...
Immortal Technique - Hollywood Driveby
So far...
Programming: The New Literacy →
Going Medieval: Time-Warner Begins Metered... →
I almost cried when I found out FIOS wasn’t available in my apartment and that I’d have to go with time warner. Now I really hate time warner internet. When will the dinosaurs learn?
Trailer for "Perception" a Wade Wofford Film →
Congratulations Wade!
May 2008
7 posts
Obama uses viral marketing to raise money and love →
WatchVia SVN “We’re lucky to live in the age of Dean Kamen.”
Photojojo Screws Up On Mother’s Day… →
I love the offer to call your customers’ mothers to apologize. It’s sure to cause a smile and be remembered.
Combat and Composure →
“This contrast between combat and composure defines the Democratic race. The implicit Clinton argument is that politics is an inherently nasty business. Human nature, as she said Sunday, means that progress comes only through conquest. You’d better elect a leader who can intimidate. You’d better elect someone who has given herself permission to be brutal. Obama’s campaign grows out of the...
April 2008
9 posts
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes... →
“I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that...
Inside Tanya Andersen's private war with the... →
It’s about time…
““Trying to recruit while you’re in “stealth mode” is like punching...”
– Great Quotes from Venture Hacks
“In most elevators, at least in any built or installed since the early nineties,...”
– The New Yorker: Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (via gtmcknight) (via superamit) Bastards!
Be Good →
But the most important advantage of being good is that it acts as a compass. One of the hardest parts of doing a startup is that you have so many choices. There are just two or three of you, and a thousand things you could do. How do you decide? Here’s the answer: Do whatever’s best for your users. You can hold onto this like a rope in a hurricane, and it will save you if anything...
Your Glass House by Atmosphere From the awesome...
The Google economy →
“I think we’re seeing a new definition of “the economy.” The old definition meant and measured the performance of big companies and their impact on each other. This was especially the case in media and advertising, which served only companies of a certain size because only large companies could afford to advertise in large outlets. But Google’s marketplace for advertisers of all sizes...
New York, New York, It’s a Hell of a Beer Town →
Really makes me miss nyc.
Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the... →
“Imagine that products are mountains. To build a product, you will need to climb that mountain. Some mountains have a big pot of gold at the top, and some do not. In order to make money, you will need to pick the right mountain and then successfully climb to the top and gather up the gold. You can fail by choosing a mountain that has little or no gold at the top, or by dying on the way...
March 2008
14 posts
Innovation in Wine Labels →
Genius, someone should do this for beer labels.
Part I of Inside Mahalo, the Human Produced Search... →
Robert Scoble interviews me about how I conduct customer research (listening labs) at Mahalo (13 mins in)
