September 2011
16 posts
Amazon Tablet →
If Amazon can deliver a $249 tablet that does a serviceable job for reading books, browsing some top newspapers and magazines, watching movies and TV shows, and playing some casual games, that’s going to be very attractive to a lot of people.
August 2011
15 posts
“I still don’t believe in vision. I believe in bumbling around long enough to not...”
– Vinod (via brycedotvc)
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“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The...”
– Steve Jobs http://on.wsj.com/n9ou2O (via cdixon)
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.”
– Clay Shirky
Just chatting with a friend and fellow healthcare innovator. A super talented, smart guy with a really elegant solution that every employer in the US should want. However, disrupting the price transparency issue of healthcare is pretty much impossible. That quote pretty much sums up a...
“Many popular games tap into something in a person that is compulsive, like...”
– Modcult: Why Can’t I Just Buy Feelings Directly? (via pieratt)
Watchbrycedotvc:
Chris Hogg is one of my favorite minds on the tectonic shifts happening in healthcare today. In his follow up post to this TEDx talk, Chris does a great job articulating the underlying themes of this shift:
The biggest problem in healthcare today is not medical; it is behavioral. Most of us have become incredibly detached from our bodies and health and being detached leads to poor...
Dan Harmon, full of spit, responds to a Tumblr... →
pieratt:
“Appearing human-like is important to the next step.”
“Your job is to be a heartless piece of dirt, a puppet, a necessary but largely unremarkable conduit of something better than you, something lovable, something with purpose, and your one redeeming act before it finishes with you is to find the angle at which you barely affect its path.”
“Hype gets in the way. Every ounce of energy invested in vanity metrics and...”
– Ries (via brycedotvc)
bijan sabet: "Silence was the canvas" →
bijan:
I’m exactly half way through reading Life, an autobiography by Keith Richards.
Growing up two favorite rock bands dominated my vinyl collection. The Who and the Stones.
This book by Keith is absolutely fucking fantastic. All the stories behind the music. How he met Mick. The drugs. The first…
True Failure →
True failure doesnt occur because of market conditions, or because of anyone else. True failure is directly tied to you and your actions (or lack thereof).
“If you succeed, you’ll make lots of money, but that’s like becoming a writer to...”
– Peter Thiel: Don’t think of companies as statistics (via pegobry)