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Apps for 2013 6 Jan 2013 | 11:20 am
Over New Year’s weekend a bunch of heavy app users I was with sat down to list apps they found interesting / useful this past year. Here’s my list: f.lux – will save your eyes and help you sleep bett...
Small boxes, loosely joined 20 Sep 2012 | 04:56 am
According to a study by the city of San Francisco, one large chain store selling food in a central location would kill 321 small grocers & up to 1,284 jobs. That made me wonder how the huge same day ...
21 characteristics of great teams 5 Sep 2012 | 04:36 am
What makes a great team? Here’s a checklist based on six famously successful groups (Xerox PARC, the 1992 Clinton campaign, Disney animation studios…) in the book Organizing Genius. Interestingly, “a...
Huxley’s fears 7 Aug 2012 | 02:12 pm
Neil Postman, interviewed on the McNeil/Lehrer Hour in 1995: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be ...
Wellspring of startupism 14 May 2012 | 03:48 pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson‘s 1836 essay Nature reads like a credo of current-day startupism: Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfol...
Another angle on success 19 Jan 2012 | 02:57 pm
I came across this definition of success in a book on homeschooling: To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of ho...
Churchill on enthusiasm 14 Jan 2012 | 10:33 pm
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm – Winston Churchill
5 questions to ask yourself 14 Jan 2012 | 03:45 pm
Elad Gil posted a list of 5 questions to ask yourself about your startup. I like it a lot, and think it applies more broadly than just entrepreneurs building startups. Here’s his list: Do I Have The ...
Authors and their typewriters 27 Dec 2011 | 05:03 am
Roger Angell laments the loss of letter-writing in The New Yorker: We’ve done this to ourselves, of course, and done it eagerly, with our tweets and texts, our Facebook chat, our flooding e-mails, an...
That thing real leaders do 26 Dec 2011 | 03:39 pm
From today’s New York Times: Real leaders, wrote the novist David Foster Wallace, are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear...
