July 2009
1 post
Don't paint with a broad brush in this downturn
bijan:
We are still in an marco economic mess.
I’m not going to pretend to predict when we will get out of it.
But there is something very familiar about this down turn as the last downturn.
There are some folks (VCs, press, bloggers, entrepreneurs, bystanders, critics) that have decided to paint with a broad brush.
That happened in the Web 1.0 crash.
In those days, some people said...
June 2009
32 posts
“A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it...”
– “Violinist in the MetroA man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and start…” - My soup (via terminally-incoherent) (via peterwknox) (via thedco) (via artistspaid)
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“Si vis pacem, para bellum”
July 2008
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June 2008
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“Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know...”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn (via heather-rivers) (via gtmcknight)
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charlietodd:
The Democratic primary in 8 minutes.
THIS is web video done right. Wow.
Holy crap, yeah. This is superb.
How to Unleash Your Creativity: Scientific... →
jakoblodwick:
“When children are very young, they all express creativity, but by the end of the first grade, very few do so. This is because of socialization. They learn in school to stay on task and to stop daydreaming and asking silly questions. As a result, the expression of new ideas is largely shut down. We end up leaving creative expression to the misfits—the people who can’t be socialized.”...
Trust, Business, and Game Theory
jeremystein: Trust is the foundation of every business, but it’s often taken for granted. I buy from Amazon because I trust the delivery time, convenience, and quality of their service. I use Google to search the internet because I trust that it provides me with the most relevant results. I don’t actively think about the underlying trust when using these services— I expect it. The second that I...
May 2008
50 posts
“It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you...”
– Barack Obama, commencement speech at Wesleyan University (via joelaz) (via artistspaid)