May 2011
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Another reason to travel
I can list plenty of reasons why traveling is awesome, not the least of which is the excitment of adventure and the unseen. However there is one subtle reason that is not very apparent. I noticed recently that whether im flipping through a magazine or browsing online, i automatically gravitate and pay much more attention to the articles that relate to the countries and locales i have visited. An...
“There are lots of useful things we can do to rearrange daily life in the USA...”
– James Howard Kunstler (via azspot)
March 2011
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Goodwill and no-nonsense values
StartupBus began with a premise that if you put sharp people on the bus, including all associated constraints, interesting things come out of it. Last year it was one bus with dreamers that come from distant parts of USA but also UK and Australia. The dreamers kept dreaming and today, a year later, 6 buses hit the road at around 7am in their respective timezones. Equipped with determination to...
February 2011
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“Find purpose. The means will follow.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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Where do good ideas come from?
As I watched this video, parallel between it and the environment that we create on the StartupBus was stark. In this beautifully illustrated video, Steve Johnson asks a question you see in the title and specifically drills down on the impact that our surroundings have on our ideas. Breakthrough ideas are a result of rinse-and-lather process of perfecting a hunch. Hunches are unpredictable, but...
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StartupBus community is about to get much larger
Last February my friend Julie brought to my attention this article on TechCrunch about this 48-hour hackathon on a bus, known as StartupBus. Of course I signed up, as the idea passed my personal threshold of “crazy enough to fly across the country”. Within just a couple of weeks from signing up for the StartupBus 2010 I flew to San Francisco and joined a bunch of cool people. They came...
January 2011
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WatchThings to Watch in 2011
A 100-item laundry list of predictions of what will be popular in tech for the year 2011. There are some interesting trends emerging. Many items in that list are predicting a significant trend of technologies merging and going mainstream. Take for example Facebook’s growing ability to provide value to retail/e-commerce industry (big reason for Facebook enormous...
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Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
December 2010
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Skype is cheap
As a gesture of apology for their big outage, Skype sent me a $1 coupon for their service. Come on Skype - you can do better than that!
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Smart move by Tony Conrad (Founder of About.me)
AOL’s acquisition of About.me was the fastest exit I have ever read about - less than 1 week after the public launch. It’s a huge win for Tony Conrad and the team at About.me as they will be raking in millions in double digits. But in today’s startup environment there is a big emphasis on growing the business before selling out, a merger or an IPO. Take for example Facebook,...
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October 2010
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The Flock of Business(wo)men to Politics
Here’s a solid statement regarding all the hype of business people trying to bring their management skills, order and rationality to politics.
The best way to inject the virtues of business into public life is not to draft in a few ex-bosses—even outstanding ones like Ms Whitman—but to introduce as much choice and competition as possible into the public sector.
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September 2010
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“Whether it’s tied to an entrepreneurial vision or simply made part of your every...”
– Biz Stone: There Is Compound Interest in Altruism (via bijan)
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Are you hypomanic? According to the article, Seth... →
As much as it’s hard to imagine how hard life would be with 0 social life, people like Seth Priebatsch, Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are the types that really do create big waves of innovation. Nothing short of extraordinary people that create extraordinary results.
Also, this really speaks to effort - just read what Seth’s parents had him and his sister doing from a very early...
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“Mobile now is a bit like the web / browser experience was in the early days of...”
– Mark Suster (via vruz)
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Moving Picasa Database Without Confusing It →
My Picasa library databases started eating too much space on my C: drive so I was looking for a way to move the database to another partition. After looking through a bunch of Picasa forums and failing to get the results people advised, I found this link to be the most reliable and straightforward.
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The Omega Glory →
Linked to this post is a text that I found worthwhile. It’s about how we think of the “future”.
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Competition will keep internet neutral
A recent article from the Economist argues that competition could save internet from becoming fragmented, but not in America where there’s not enough competition.
What about the risk that operators will fragment the internet by erecting new road-blocks or toll booths? In theory, competition between providers of internet access should prevent this from happening. Any broadband provider...
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August 2010
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson (via 3rddegree)
Wise words. I need to read this every morning! Thanks JY
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“The final thing I’d say about optimism is this. If we took the loopiest, most...”
– Clay Shirky, quoted in The Guardian (via factoryjoe)
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“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs addressing Stanford grads
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“When at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
– Albert Einstein
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“Clarity dissolves resistance. (speaking about change)”
– Switch by Chip & Dan Heath
Sometime Around Midnight by The Airborne Toxic...
July 2010
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“Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. We’re all trying to...”
– Paul Graham - The Acceleration of Addictiveness (via bijan)
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Protectionism Fails Reason
Just heard about US and BP refusing Dutch companies’ bids to provide the most advanced technology of oil cleanup. This is protectionism at its best, where in the interest of protecting domestic companies the gov’t sacrifices optimal solution. So I am really curious: Why does media focus on and, for the past few months, has been feeding us with sensational images and numbers of barrells of oil...
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what's your middle name?: How to add Tumblr to... →
Go to your Google profile and copy down the URL for the page.
Click Edit Profile
Scroll down to add links and add a link to your Tumblr site and save your profile
Edit your Tumblr template with a custom theme. I defer to the Tumblr help pages for instructions.
Add in the XFN magic by…
Unkle - In A State
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Mattafix - Big City Life
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The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
B-E-A-utiful
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Article on Solitude and Leadership →
Amazingly subtle article (adaptes from a speech) that reminds us to think about personal leadership and importance of solitude, real friendship and standing your ground.
A definite must read.
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