January 2011
11 posts
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WatchWatch
Start watching from 2:50 onward.  Best analogy to the differences between the Dems and Repubs.
Jan 29th
Jan 28th
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Evangelizing Yourself from Whitney Hess... →
While few would say that I have difficulty in meeting new people, I would say that Whitney’s slide-deck (found when reading Tony’s NWC 2.0 post recently) moved me. And, since my Blogger account is…
Jan 25th
“Why can’t all “tech” journalism be like this? A single article on the topic,...”
– Completely agree with Fred… Why is Schmidt stepping down at Google? (via fred-wilson)
Jan 24th
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NWC 2.0: Underdogs →
A beautiful post… nwc2: I find myself alone in the space again tonight, which is up there with Saturday mornings and showers as being among the best times to contemplate. And write blog posts. I’m sitting on the most comfortable couch in the space which, despite its new brown cover, is still referred to as the…
Jan 23rd
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Finding Your Passion - from 1998 Stanford Daily →
In the past few days, I have been rediscovering some of my older website pages (like Lessons Learned) and managing to recover some wisdom I found back at Stanford. This one is twelve…
Jan 23rd
Lessons That I Still Try to Learn →
Recently, I was cleaning out some old files and discovered one of my pages that came from a job I did back in 1997. I had created a website at my school and called the page “Lessons…
Jan 22nd
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds...”
– Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time I think this is the best analysis of Facebook I’ve ever read. “The social equivalent of liver failure” is a genius phrase. (via buzzandersen)
Jan 17th
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“Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” -Thomas Edison-”
– Nothing comes easy in life.  We all pay our dues.  Would success be worth striving for if we didnt have to work so hard to obtain it ?  (via marydaphne)
Jan 16th
GI Bill for Programmers: 1000 by November 2011 →
Over the past few days, I have enjoyed watching people discuss the need for building more programmers in our area. With Charlie throwing down the gauntlet for 250, Fred picking it up to…
Jan 9th
Jan 9th