October 2011
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West Point lecture on solitude and leadership.
A phenomenal talk on the relationships between solitude, forming your own ideas, and leadership by former Yale professor William Deresiewicz. He has also written on the disadvantages of an elite education.
Solitude and Leadership
If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts
The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West...
June 2011
8 posts
Online Home Furnishings Retailer CSN Stores Raises... →
A true jewel in Boston’s tech scene! Congrats Niraj and all CSN staff!
Hitatchi Releases G-Connect Wireless Storage For... →
It will be interesting to see how this race plays out.
Personal Hardware vs. Services for mindshare of Cloud.
More interesting thought, if and how Cloud silos would/should interact with one another and most importantly, how can I squeeze money out of it - ; P
The Civil War Today: One Of The Coolest iPad Apps... →
History buffs rejoice!
Download Go the F--k to Sleep | Adam Mansbach | Go... →
Genius — it’s a pseudo kids (more for parents book) narrated by none other than Samuel L Jackson (Mr. “I’m mad as he’ll.”)
College is a waste of time - CNN.com →
Fortunately there are productive alternatives to college. Becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or mastering the phrase “Would you like fries with that?” are not the only options.
iCan’t Believe It: Boy Reportedly Sells His Kidney... →
iGods: Objects of our worship - Coincidence?
Jobs and Woz did sell their first commercial product for $666.00 …
May 2011
5 posts
What Happens to All the Asian-American... →
“Let me summarize my feelings toward Asian values: Fuck filial piety. Fuck grade-grubbing. Fuck Ivy League mania. Fuck deference to authority. Fuck humility and hard work. Fuck harmonious relations. Fuck sacrificing for the future. Fuck earnest, striving middle-class servility.”
Ditto
What you should know about iTunes' 56-page legal... →
#VRM Folks! You have rights!
Password Manager Last Pass Possibly Hacked →
A dose of irony - “the last password you’ll have to remember!”
Hackers group says it will target Iran on Sunday →
Interesting to see how this will play out.
April 2011
8 posts
Nifty App Converts Email Into A Game, Helping You... →
Great press for Baydin!
What They Know - WSJ →
I knew there Angry Birds were following me around.
Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of... →
Wow … Beam me up Scotty!
WatchNew Hellcat From Confederate … wow! (via Confederate Development Room)
March 2011
10 posts
Holistic Approach to web security? →
By studying the underlying patterns of how software, hardware, and networks interact, Song has become expert at understanding the flow of both “good” data and ill-intentioned hacks.
Rules for New Internet Bubble by Steve Blank.
Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014
“The signs of a new bubble have been appearing over the last year - seed and late stage valuations are rapidly inflating, hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest since the last bubble and investors are starting to openly wonder how this one will end.
Breathtaking Scale The bubble is being driven by market forces on a scale never seen in the...
What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity |... →
“1. Tenacity – Tenacity is probably the most important attribute in an entrepreneur. It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer. The world is filled with doubters who say that things can’t be done and then pronounce after the fact that they “knew it all along.” Look at Google. You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford...
San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive... →
Start up Tax in the Valley? Come to Boston and bring along your “west coast” “laid backness.”
Adobe caves in to Apple -- fewer blank spots on... →
Wallaby - bridging the “worldview” dividing wedge between Apple and Adobe? Time will tell if I will encounter fewer blank ispots on my non flash idevices.
Developing NFC applications
Developing NFC applications
Very interesting read on emerging field. Classic case of Von Hippel’s infrastructure/innovation dilemma.
I wish that all telcom hardware developers would adopt to standard, release a SDK and give it only to me.
Is that too much?
February 2011
13 posts
Startups rarely die in mid keystroke. So keep...
Sometimes the pain is too much … but then I remember the words of my mentors, the ones who have come before me.
August 2007 A couple days ago I told a reporter that we expected about a third of the companies we funded to succeed. Actually I was being conservative. I’m hoping it might be as much as a half. Wouldn’t it be amazing if we could achieve a 50% success rate? Another...
JetPack! →
http://www.uncrate.com/men/gear/transportation/jetlev-flyer/
Investing where others won’t - The Boston Globe →
Congrats Todd! Love Bill Warner’s “Let’s get it done” attitude!
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The Hustle.
I am co-founder of a Boston start-up called Mercavo. Mercavo is a web services company helping to create the “intent economy.”
Mercavo is a marketplace where a new commodity: “intent” can be monetized, exchanged or traded for point value for later consumption of an opportunity (someone else’s intent) that is valuable to you.
We believe we have figured out a clear...
January 2011
6 posts
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CA Sen. Yee, Who Got Racially Charged Threats,... →
When competition is at your back, it is easy to give in to one’s fear and anxiety and resort to protectionist rhetoric as Rush has.
It is very un-Republican to fear competition, free market and “can do” optimism of “pull ourselves out by our own bootstraps” attitude. Where is the determined sprint towards hard work, doubling down on innovation and ingenuity.
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