January 2012
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The self is not located in the body, finds... →
“Science is catching up to the insight gained by mystics for thousands of years: that the self is not unchanging and easy to pin down. The self is not only in the body, but the Self which contains all bodies.”
Researchers find empathy in rats →
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“Every time a new media technology has been made available, it has always been...”
– Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal. http://torrentfreak.com/swiss-govt-downloading-movies-and-music-will-stay-legal-111202/
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Why Software Is Eating The World →
“In short, software is eating the world.
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But too much of the debate is still around financial valuation, as opposed to the underlying intrinsic value of the best of Silicon Valley’s new companies. My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the...
December 2011
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“Focus on the road not the wall—When they train racecar drivers, one of the first...”
– AndreessenHorowitz
What’s The Most Difficult CEO Skill? Managing Your Own Psychology.
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“The best teacher is one who attacks your hidden faults;
The best instruction is...”
– Atisa
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Watch“I have a phrase I use a lot, which is my favorite Star Wars phrase, my favorite Yoda quote “Do, or do not. There is no try”. And when I think about entrepreneurs and I think about the experience I’ve had as an entrepreneur, as an angel investor and as a venture investor, the notion of trying is not really a core part of what the great entrepreneurs have done.The great...
November 2011
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“My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.”
– V. Khosla
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“Your customers dream of a happier and better life. Don’t move products....”
– Steve Jobs
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October 2011
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Ten Rules for Web Startups →
#1: Be Narrow Focus on the smallest possible problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns you into a me-too. Focusing on a small niche has so many advantages: With much less work, you can be the best at what you do. Small things, like a microscopic world, almost always turn out to be bigger...
September 2011
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August 2011
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Steve Jobs: "The press and the stock price will... →
“While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
July 2011
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“Problems are inevitable. Misery is a choice.”
– Ann Landers (via kari-shma)
June 2011
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Watchbrycedotvc:
If you watch this video profiling the NYC Resistor hacker space closely enough you can see the future.
PS- the video also contains my favorite definition of a hacker: someone who can get something to do something it wasn’t designed to do.
PPS- I’m not a fan of VICE magazine, but their VBS.tv has some really amazing content on emergent cultures.
May 2011
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April 2011
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Words that don’t exist in the english language:
margattackz:
L’esprit d’escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are...
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“I am not good at tech matters but I have got a lot of people who are. I don’t...”
– Warren Buffet (via brycedotvc)
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“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good...”
– Shunryu Suzuki
March 2011
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Entrepreneurs and the Cult of Failure →
Here are three ideas to help policy makers calibrate the fear of failure to encourage entrepreneurship without suggesting that failure be vaunted.
Accept that failure is a natural part of doing business. In “hyperentrepreneurial” countries such as Israel, Taiwan, and Iceland, early business failures are common. And the famous J-curve of returns is ideology among venture capitalists everywhere:...
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Nasa's pen / Simplicity →
When NASA first
started sending astronauts into space, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens wouldn’t work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on any surface and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C. The Russians used a pencil.
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The Anatomy of a Y Combinator Demo Day Pitch →
Good way to pitch your startup in 2 minutes.
Slide #1: The elevator pitch. This slide was generally used to give context by associating their unknown startup with a well known company or market. Phrases like “we’re x done right” or “we’re AirBnB for x”. Rather than waiting for an investor to figure out who their analogous company is or who their looming competitor will be, they tee it up right...
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“We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data...”
– Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist
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Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (Attitude over... →
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Don’t Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn... →
“Just as Twitter went from a small bet to a big one, small bets are affordable and achievable ways to learn about problems and opportunities, while big bets are for capitalizing upon them.”
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Ram Di Dam - Flashbacks →
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Marketing is for companies who have sucky products →
Marketing is for companies who have sucky products. If you build something that is amazing (think Flipboard or Instagram or Instapaper) people will adopt it because it is amazing. And you won’t have to do much marketing, at least at the start.