February 2012
6 posts
From The "Um, What?!" Department
parislemon:
Google now asks you to enter your credit card as part of the Gmail signup flow. Bold. twitter.com/rmatei/status/…
— Robert Cezar Matei (@rmatei) February 22, 2012
This is going to go over well.
“The shift from the physical to the virtual raises a number of exciting...”
– http://www.usv.com/2012/02/dwolla.php
Coding
Chris Dixon wrote a blog post today titled “Who Should Learn to Program.” Obviously there is a ton of hype around this subject with Code Academy / Code Year, etc.
In my opinion, though, Chris hits the nail on the head with his usual clarity. His points about the value of coding from an educational standpoint for younger people seem spot on, as do his points about the merits of how it...
January 2012
24 posts
“Where Michael Moore’s Sicko went the anguished-agitprop route, Susan Fromke and...”
– NY Mag - http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/01/sundance-day-6-buzz-meter-david-duchovnys-disappointing-goat-man.html
Nice work Heiney
WatchGoing to start incorporating this into my workout routine …
“Boredom is failure. In a first-world economy where we have the physical...”
– http://blog.appsumo.com/
“The mismatch between Silicon Valley and Congress isn’t just that Silicon Valley...”
– Tim O’Reilly (via bijan)
Awesometown: Nirvana Nevermind 20 yrs later →
jakethefurst:
20 years later, the Nirvana Nevermind baby is all growns up, but back in the pool to recreate his famous album cover:
(20 years after this):
Hunter Walk on MBAs →
vitter:
Hunter’s post does a great job explaining the subtle difference between “getting an MBA” and “being an MBA” that often leaves myself and the general public dropping 4 letter words when they meet people who “are MBAs.”
His post says it far better than I can but I’ve always thought about it in terms of humility, people, and intellectual curiosity:
Be humble enough to know you don’t know...
Appsumo - getting the most out of setting up your... →
“The archetypal imagination creates coincidences and good luck.”
– I’m taking a class over winter break with Deepak Chopra. Today he lectured on the “should of leadership” and I particularly loved this quote.
“Since rejoining the Company in 1997, Mr. Jobs had not sold any of his shares of...”
– Apple’s 2012 Proxy Statement
In a world where the likes of Steve Ballmer and many others routinely sell huge portions of their shares, Jobs kept all of his. $2,319,515,000 worth, as Dustin Curtis points out.
That’s dedication and loyalty. That’s putting your money where your mouth is.
(via...
Too many websites
I found this tweet the other day from Chris Dixon to be quite interesting:
“The stunning speed with which new websites get traction and takeshare from other sites actually makes them all less valuable.”
I have about ten bookmarklets now in my browser. 4 are for reading/notes (Evernote, Instapaper, Reading AM, Delicious) and 4 are for ecommerce type activities (Amazon, Svpply,...
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December 2011
8 posts
Dark Knight Rises Trailer →
Cannot f’ing wait
A Startup Store →
This is a hell of an idea. Someone should do it with all the menswear startups out there.
Startup Job Search Resources
As an MBA student looking to join a startup after graduating in May, Im constantly hustling my way around the NYC startup community - creating and editing lists of target companies, meeting people, trying to find intros, etc. Ive found some great pieces of advice from people who have been there before as well.
This Quora answer about how to get a job at a startup has a great answer from Jake...
“Building an engineering presence outside the West Coast is a big step for us,...”
– http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-new-york-announcement-2011-12#ixzz1fPkuWYsc
Young, Wild, And Free by Wiz Khalifashared from...
November 2011
7 posts
Youth Lagoon – Cannons
by Youth Lagoonshared from...
“What is the purpose of a sofa?”
Good review of the Jobs biography from Malcolm Gladwell.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/14/111114fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
bijan:
Tokyo Police Club - Wait Up (KEXP)
shared...
Nate Berkopec: Built to Fund →
nateberkopec:
We may have lost our way as a community.
Phew. I said it. OK. Listen, I don’t want to come off as an always-contrarian, no-one-invited-me-to-the-cool-kid-party type, but I think the startup party limo may be headed in the wrong direction.
Setting the stage: beauty pageants and pump’n’dump
If…
October 2011
11 posts
Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
I really enjoyed reading this piece from a 1966 version of Esquire magazine. Its a story about Joe DiMaggio, years after his retirement living life in San Francisco.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7115592/silent-season-hero