January 2012
2 posts
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Voice Actions for Android →
December 2011
4 posts
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How to start a business, updated & revised
I was recently asked by a friend for advice on “how to start a business”. Here are some of the resources and advice I had for her.
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1. You can start it in your *spare* time, just carve out x hours / day / week to do *damage*.
2. Keep your expenditures down, be creative. Money doesn’t create great companies. Hard work & great people create great companies. In fact...
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7 Things Highly Productive People Do
Via Inc, By Ilya Pozin | @ilyaNeverSleeps | article
I agree with everything save the phone. I’m allergic to the phone. As a computer geek I find it largely unproductive. Better to use project management tools, basecamp, lighthouse…
...
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My friends or robots? I choose robots, or...
Robots or ‘friends’? Answer; robots.
Friends or ‘the crowd’? Answer; the crowd.
Using my friends to discover movies, music, books…it’s fine in concept. However, I find the social graph an extremely flawed notion. E.g., I’ve rated nearly 2k movies @ Netflix. Their computers / robots / algorithms know what I will like better than my friends do. The problem with...
November 2011
11 posts
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SOPA, the Internet Censorship Bill. Thanks... →
Republic Wireless Officially Unveils $19/Month... →
loganabbott:
This is going to shake things up in the mobile phone sector with the major carriers. This is how phone service should be.
Over the last week I’ve been following the emergence of a previously-stealthy mobile carrier called Republic Wireless very closely. The story so far: Bandwidth.com, which provides the VoIP backbone for services including Google Voice and Twilio, is launching...
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“(Seneca quoting Posidonius…) “‘In a single day there lies open...”
– ”Letters From A Stoic” by Seneca
October 2011
19 posts
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World power swings back to America
via the Telegraph & Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
I’d like to believe this. However, we’ll see, said the Zen Master.
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The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. ...
"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson sounds honest.... →
Amazing pics of the Stadiums to be built for Qatar... →
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USA Pro Cycling Challenge drew over 1 million...
via @denverpost here http://su.pr/2ByaOS
A study released Tuesday showed that 22 percent of spectators at the Aug. 22-28 race came from outside the state. Even better: More than 94 percent of attendees surveyed said they planned to return for next year’s race.
“All of the sudden, Colorado has jumped to the top of wish lists for people around the country and the globe,”...
Sean Parker on F-book, spotify...size of the music... →
Here’s Why You Never Ask A Busy Person To Lunch |... →
Father Of C And UNIX, Dennis Ritchie, Passes Away... →
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Jim Collins crushes it, again, with his new book...
“GREAT BY CHOICE: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck—Why Some Thrive Despite Them All”
by Jim Collins & Morten T. Hansen
from amazon:
The new findings The study results were full of provocative surprises. Such as:
The best leaders were not more risk taking, more visionary, and more creative than the comparisons; they were more disciplined, more empirical, and more paranoid.
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Jim Collins' new book releases today "GREAT BY... →
Don't 'Occupy Wall Street,' Start a Small Business... →
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“All is ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Skynet is now self aware. Computer Virus Hits U.S....
Terminators to follow. via @wired full piece here
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A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly ...
“I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking...”
– Alexander Dumas
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Richard Branson on Time Management |... →
$25 for $75 Worth of Wine from Wine Insiders - via... →
September 2011
15 posts
Introducing Amazon's new browser, Silk →
68% of the Fortune 100 are Clueless
Last month, 37Signals noticed that they were getting lots of emails and signups from people with Fortune 500 email addresses. They dug around and found that Basecamp was being used at:
35 of the Fortune 50
68 of the Fortune 100
321 of the Fortune 500
What’s notable about this is that 37Signals employs no salespeople and doesn’t take anyone at these companies out to expensive...
(Founder Stories) Eric Ries: How Lean Was The... →
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Tumblr Is A Pageview Machine, Now Bigger Than... →
If you are wondering why Tumblr just raised $85 million, all you have to do is look at its pageviews. The super-easy blogging platform saw its pageviews jump from about 2 billion a month to 13 billion since the beginning of the year. It recently passed 10 billion posts, and is adding 40 million more every day. According to Quantcast, which directly measures the site, Tumblr attracts 72...
Eric Ries on Creating the Lean Startup | Inc.com →
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“Marketing is not a department, it’s the sum total of everything you do.”
– 37Signals’ “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.
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37 tweetable Startup Insights from "Rework" via...
Original post here
37 “Signals” From 37 Signals
1) Great businesses have a point of view, not just a product or service. [tweet]
2) Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you don’t actually control. [tweet]
3) You have the most information when you’re doing something, not before you’ve done it. [tweet]
4) Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is...
Ski season is here! #colorado via Denver Post →
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“‘We need to set our affections on some good man and keep him constantly...”
– via Epicurus and as quoted by Seneca in “Letters from a Stoic”
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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to...
From January this year & the Harvard Business Review.
>According to a recent study by the Kauffman Foundation, for example, all net job growth in the U.S. since 1977 has been due to start-ups. The data show that if you took start-ups out of the picture and looked only at large established firms, job growth in the U.S. over the last 34 years would actually be negative.
“When it comes...
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Processing your work is part of your work →
I’m a n00b to “Getting Things Done”, hence all of my posts. Loving it tho! Via David Allen #GTD #gettingthingsdone
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23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup"
http://su.pr/17DRhl via @dharmesh & Eric Ries’ “The Lean Startup”
>The following are some quick quotes and insights from Eric with convenient tweetable links (so you can spread the wisdom and look really smart and clueful to your twitter followers). Enjoy.
23 Tweetable Insights From “The Lean Startup”
1) Our future prosperity depends on the quality of...
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Getting Things Done notes via MineZone Wiki →