January 2011
28 posts
bijan:
Bright Eyes - Beginner’s Mind
this new...
“We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the...”
– Steve Jobs (via davemorin)
“The earlier I come to work the luckier I get.”
– JLM, super commenter
A VC: CEO Transitions
(via fred-wilson)
Honne and Tatemae →
Tatemae (pronounced ‘Ta-teh-MAE’): official, public, socially required reality
Honne (pronounced ‘HON-neh’): informal, personal reality in disregard of social parameters
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
– Charles Bukowski (via everyoneeatscookies)
“Every time we postpone some necessary event—whether we put off doing the dishes...”
– Robert Grudin, quoted by Mandy Brown (via ayjay)
This is superbly put.
“PLAYBOY: Besides finding documents, what will we be able to do?
GATES: Say you...”
– Bill Gates in Playboy in 1994 talking about what was not even then the internet. Scarily prescient.
It’s interesting that this is so much a prophecy of the social web: if you want to choose what movie you’ll like, you’ll choose based on your friends’ opinions and then share your opinion of the...
“I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and...”
– Merlin Mann on New Year’s resolutions (via marco)
Bill Murray is greatest. →
ben:
I had heard the urban legend of Murray sneaking up behind people (it’s further explained in the article), but just assumed it was a tale of glorious fiction, but apparently he had done something nearly as awesome… crashing a private karaoke party… and there are pictures!
“As I’m sure you’ve learned, it’s impossible to speak to a spouse if he or she is...”
– Scott Adams Blog: Marital Deafness 01/12/2011
True that!
(via Instapaper)
“If Wikipedia pulled a MySpace and started dwindling away, who could save them?...”
– Bruce Sterling on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary (via ayjay)
The BEST URL shortener. Ever. →
Yellapragada Subbarao →
Yesterday it was Dr.Yellapragada Subbarao’s birthday. His story makes for an interesting read. I did my studies in pharmacy and until recently i had never heard of him. He liked being unknown.
Travelling
Been travelling recently. Am posting travel notes/pictures at http://kavan.posterous.com.
Freemium executed well with a small detail at... →
parislemon:
I agree, this is a very smart way to execute the model.
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via scfk)
