January 2011
28 posts
Listenbijan: Bright Eyes - Beginner’s Mind this new...
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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Jan 28th
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“We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the...”
– Steve Jobs (via davemorin)
Jan 28th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“The earlier I come to work the luckier I get.”
– JLM, super commenter A VC: CEO Transitions (via fred-wilson)
Jan 23rd
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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
Jan 23rd
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
– Charles Bukowski (via everyoneeatscookies)
Jan 22nd
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“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.
Jan 21st
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“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...
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and...”
– Merlin Mann on New Year’s resolutions (via marco)
Jan 18th
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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!
Jan 18th
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Jan 15th
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“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)
Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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“If Wikipedia pulled a MySpace and started dwindling away, who could save them?...”
– Bruce Sterling on Wikipedia’s 10th Anniversary (via ayjay)
Jan 14th
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The BEST URL shortener. Ever. →
Jan 13th
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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. 
Jan 13th
Jan 13th
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Travelling
Been travelling recently. Am posting travel notes/pictures at http://kavan.posterous.com. 
Jan 9th
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Jan 3rd
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Freemium executed well with a small detail at... →
parislemon: I agree, this is a very smart way to execute the model.
Jan 3rd
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via scfk)
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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