January 2012
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Jan 25th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 23rd
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“Christopher Nolan views anarchy with dread, and human behavior in the absence of...”
– Taylor Marvin (via ayjay)
Jan 21st
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“Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...”
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
Jan 21st
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“I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is...”
– Stephen Colbert (via luckyshirt)
Jan 16th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 10th
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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Jan 7th
Jan 6th
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December 2011
14 posts
“There is nothing but water in the holy pools I know, I’ve been swimming...”
– Kabir
Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 22nd
All evil begins with 15 volts →
Dec 18th
“I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is...”
– Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater (via david-noel)
Dec 15th
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Dec 12th
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“When ideas are blocked, information deleted, conversations stifled and people...”
– NYT, 12/9/2011 (via informationarbitrage)  ”..There’s just the Internet.”
Dec 9th
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Don't Be A Free User →
If every additional user is putting money in the developers’ pockets, then you’re less likely to see the site disappear overnight. If every new user is costing the developers money, and the site is really taking off, then get ready to read about those synergies.
Dec 7th
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“Stability is good when a society is peaceful and prosperous. Stability is evil...”
– Freeman Dyson reviews legendary psychologist and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow — a must-read (via curiositycounts)
Dec 4th
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Dec 3rd
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Dec 1st
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Dec 1st
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November 2011
9 posts
Nov 27th
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Nov 24th
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“When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart...”
– Joel on Architecture Astronauts (and Software) in April 2001 (via cacioppo)
Nov 22nd
Nov 15th
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A brief rant on the future of interaction design →
Nov 12th
bijan sabet: Some thoughts about A/B testing →
bijan: At lunch today, Andrew reminded me of a story that I had long forgotten. When he was at USV, he attended a board mtg for a portfolio company that we have in common. It was the early days of that company and their initial product hadn’t been out that long. The topic of A/B testing came up…
Nov 10th
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Nov 9th
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Nov 7th
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“no one likes to change until the pain of not changing is worse than the change...”
– jamie oliver (via saucy)
Nov 7th
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October 2011
9 posts
Chutzpah →
Chutzpah is a closer approximation to ego in capturing what makes a product driver good or bad. You have to be daring, tempt the gods. You need a certain amount of hubris to think that you can bring something big and new into the world.  Why not.  It’s not as if any of us get out of this alive. 
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Oct 19th
“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of...”
– P.G. Wodehouse
Oct 16th
Oct 15th
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Oct 6th
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Oct 4th
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Oct 3rd
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Oct 3rd
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“The act of writing allows me to feel truly alive. Knowing that I have sold 140...”
– Paulo Coelho on Six Secrets to Mastering Facebook and Twitter - Speakeasy - WSJ “Tell me, friends, do you understand how wonderful I am? Because I must tell you, I cannot grasp it. My magnificence has far exceeded my poor abilities to comprehend magnificence. Who am I, really, in comparison to the...
Oct 1st
September 2011
16 posts
Sep 28th
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“Tumblr is an anti-social social network.”
– #Tumblr vs #Facebook : Ask A Teen If You Want To Know The Difference (via bijan)
Sep 27th
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My life, at last, has meaning, and I now find new... →
Everything, in fact, has lost its color. I go outside and stand in the yard and gaze up at the sky and I say, Why? Why, sky? Why do you look like shit? You look just the same as ever, just blue sky and white clouds. Why can’t you change the way Facebook changes? And my house, and my dog, and wife and kids — blah. Nothing. Nothing! They are all just the same, just old and tired and ancient and...
Sep 24th
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Sep 22nd
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Apple almost Worth More than the Big Three Drug...
jayparkinsonmd: via things apple is worth more than: Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, and Pfizer add up to 355 Billion, Apple at 330 Billion.  Wow.
Sep 21st
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Chris Eidhof: Niche and Top Lists apps →
So with every app your making, ask yourself the question: is it going to be niche and findable, or am I planning to win the lottery?
Sep 21st
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Sep 20th
375 notes
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WatchWatch
curiositycounts: Fantastic Creative Mornings talk on how the Internet changed everything by Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield – insightful far past what you’d expect. Be sure to stick around for the excellent Q&A portion at the end, which gives the actual talk a run for its money.  (via)
Sep 19th
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