May 2012
3 posts
“Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter...”
– Please Learn to Write
May 16th
“If the Internet really were a series of tubes, Yahoo would be the leaking sewage...”
– How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
May 16th
2 tags
ListenEveryday
May 11th
April 2012
3 posts
“Forty years from now, we’ll know, at last, how we looked and sounded and made...”
– The New Yorker, http://nyr.kr/HGC9jb
Apr 23rd
“We’re bundling young people into things called startups, and selling them...”
– It’s definitely a bubble
Apr 20th
“He was given to fits of rage, male chauvinism, self-righteous misanthropy, and...”
–  Manhattan
Apr 17th
March 2012
1 post
“War is the most horrific, sickening thing mankind can inflict upon itself,...”
– http://www.mediumdifficulty.com/2012/03/01/call-of-apathy-violent-young-men-and-our-place-in-war/
Mar 3rd
February 2012
2 posts
Feb 25th
Feb 25th
January 2012
22 posts
1 tag
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work...”
– “Outliers”, Malcolm Gladwell
Jan 31st
5 notes
1 tag
“There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be...”
– “Steve Jobs”, by Walter Isaacson
Jan 31st
1 tag
“You must be responsible for collecting all your open loops, applying a front-end...”
– “Getting Things Done”, David Allen
Jan 30th
1 note
Jan 30th
“As technological evolution brings larger and larger swaths of people within...”
– “The Evolution of God”, Robert Wright
Jan 29th
“Criticism allows people to dig below the surface of the imagination and come up...”
– “Groupthink: The brainstorming myth”, The New Yorker
Jan 29th
3 tags
How and why Mitt Romney pays 15% in taxes →
“What low capital-gains tax rates mostly do is to encourage people to save their money by investing in assets, rather than saving it in vehicles that pay interest or dividends, or spending it on consumption goods.” - The Economist
Jan 22nd
10 notes
1 tag
Profile of Megaupload CEO →
This guy quoted the Sandlot movie and named himself after detective John Kimble. What’s not to love?
Jan 21st
Jan 14th
Jan 13th
Jan 13th
Jan 13th
“go slow to go fast”
Jan 11th
http://nyr.kr/ubOB28 →
“And on the Third Day, God’s girlfriend came over and said that He’d been acting distant lately.”
Jan 7th
1 tag
work hard, play hard work harder
Jan 7th
3 notes
1 tag
“College is worth it”
– http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/is-college-worth-it/
Jan 6th
2 tags
Jan 4th
1 tag
“The compulsion to play is hard-wired into the human race. It is the way people...”
– The Economist, “Why video games will be an enduring success”
Jan 3rd
1 tag
“The problem facing education in America isn’t the ethnic diversity of the...”
– What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland’s School Success
Jan 3rd
2 tags
Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions (from 1942)
Work more and better Work by a schedule Wash teeth if any Shave Take bath Eat good - fruit - vegetables - milk Drink very scant if any Write a song a day Wear clean clothes - look good Shine shoes Change socks Change bed clothes often Read lots good books (sic) Listen to radio a lot Learn people better Keep rancho clean Don’t get lonesome Stay glad Keep hoping machine...
Jan 2nd
7 notes
“If we don’t learn to program, we risk being programmed ourselves…...”
– codeyear.com
Jan 2nd
1 tag
“the quicker you can kill a dream by making it real, the quicker you see bigger,...”
– http://craigmod.com/satellite/steve_jobs_momentum/
Jan 2nd
December 2011
2 posts
Dec 30th
The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes →
“The one absolutely solid place to store your capital today — if you know how to do it – is in software developers’ wallets.”
Dec 6th
November 2011
10 posts
“May your troubles neglect you, Neighbors respect you, Angels protect you, And...”
– Drake
Nov 18th
1 note
1 tag
WatchWatch
Shark flying throughout the @Lightbank offices
Nov 16th
2 tags
“I hate it when people call themselves “entrepreneurs” when what...”
– Steve Jobs, biography by Walter Isaacson
Nov 14th
Nov 12th
2 tags
Nov 10th
7 notes
2 tags
Nov 10th
12 notes
Nov 9th
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not...”
– Steve Jobs, Playboy Interview, 1985
Nov 5th
2 tags
Nov 5th
4 notes
Nov 4th
October 2011
5 posts
1 tag
“Banking is not tobacco. Its products do not usually kill its customers. The...”
– The Economist http://www.economist.com/node/21534759
Oct 28th
WatchWatch
Penelope says hi
Oct 27th
3 tags
Oct 21st
6 notes
4 tags
Is Android playing catch-up with iOS?
I used to work with a talented team of mobile developers. One of the most prolonged topics of debate was the Android vs. iOS mobile development platforms. For the longest time I thought that Android was the more innovative and advanced OS. But reading up on the Ice Cream Sandwich feature set, I was shocked. It felt like Android has been playing catch-up with the iOS. Here’s why I thought...
Oct 20th
28 notes
2 tags
Meetings: How to Make More With Less
According to a recent CNN poll (related article), most people think that there are too many meetings in their workplace: I think this finding goes right along with the 37 Signals piece, Meetings Are Toxic. Meetings can be unnecessary and counter-productive. An excerpt: There’s nothing more toxic to productivity than a meeting. Here’s a few reasons why: They break your work day into small,...
Oct 19th
8 notes
September 2011
5 posts
Sep 27th
“We want people to view software as being far more organic, far more malleable,...”
– Programming is Gardening, not Engineering
Sep 23rd