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a lesson on public speaking, from the founder of NetApp 27 May 2013 | 02:34 am
via NetApp Founder Dave Hitz, in his memoir How to Castrate a Bull: “In public speaking, most people focus too much on the data that they want to present to their audience. Whenever I asked Tom [Men...
let us now praise data engineers 6 May 2013 | 10:08 pm
In the last year, the data scientist has been called “the sexiest job of the 21st century.” But if data is the new oil, and data scientists are its petrochemical high priests, who are the oil riggers...
the fuel of founders: curiosity & impatience 7 Jan 2013 | 08:54 am
“On a scale of 1-10 of impatience, the best entrepreneurs are an 11.” - Tom Stemberg, Founder of Staples Curiosity and impatience make for great founder traits, but they often pull in different direc...
data visualization is a halfway house 6 Jan 2013 | 06:09 am
(Image credit: A.Koblin for RadioHead) This is a phrase that has stuck with me since Tim O’Reilly uttered some form of it two years ago. Tim was talking about online cartography, saying it’s not the...
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model..." 6 Jan 2013 | 06:07 am
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller, via Counternotions
eight golden rules of interface design 15 May 2012 | 07:34 am
As we dedicate an increasing fraction of our time interacting with software — from airport check-in terminals and parking meters, to desktop and mobile applications — digital interface design is beco...
the rise of the technical VC 6 May 2012 | 02:12 pm
Silicon Valley’s first big bang of innovation occurred in 1957, when eight engineers left Shockley Transistor to form FairChild Semiconductor. Back then, the idea of engineers being entrusted as foun...
dna dating 9 Apr 2012 | 04:07 pm
A recent start-up, Yoke.me, is attempting to build a better dating engine using Big Data and algorithms. But what mix of data could best be used to algorithmically identify an optimal mate? Photos, ...
the data science debate: domain expertise or machine learning? 5 Mar 2012 | 10:50 pm
(Photo credit: O’Reilly Radar - See Link to Full Video) This past Tuesday evening at Strata I moderated an Oxford-Style debate between six of the top data scientists in Silicon Valley and beyond. Th...
start-ups belong in cities 24 Feb 2012 | 08:21 am
Last Saturday, I woke up and walked down to my favorite coffee shop in San Francisco, SightGlass coffee in SoMa. I met up with a couple of entrepreneurs pitching an amazing idea, and while ordering s...
