October 2009
22 posts
tylerknott:
“The Wolves(Act I & II)” a Bon...
“8. Start with Something Minimal
Lots of founders mentioned how important it...”
– Excerpted from Paul Graham’s “What Startups Are Really Like” at http://paulgraham.com/really.html
fred-wilson:
Whole Lotta Love (Led Zep cover) -...
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
– Excerpted from Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement address at http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
“I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been...”
– Excerpted from Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement address at http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
“On September 7th, one day before the...
“Essentially, Twitter left a ball and a stick in a field and lurked on the...”
– Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter | Magazine (via fred-wilson)
“Mr. Volcker’s proposal would roll back the nation’s commercial banks to an...”
– Excerpted from Louis Uchitelle’s “Volcker’s Voice Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy” at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/business/21volcker.html
“In the psychologist’s version, the good life is won indirectly. People have only...”
– Excerpted from David Brooks’ “Where the Wild Things Are” at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20brooks.html
“Important new businesses are usually some kind of hack. The established...”
– Excerpted from Paul Buchheit’s “Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. ‘Hacking’” at http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/10/applied-philosophy-aka-hacking.html
“He explained that “carry trade” would be a more accurate description of what...”
– Excerpted from Philip Greenspun’s “How Wall Street is making its billions” at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/17/how-wall-street-is-making-its-billions/
“War is obsolete,” [Ted] Turner said. “The last time someone surrendered was...”
– Excerpted from Brett Pulley and Anita Sharpe’s “Turner Lost CNN, Fonda, Fortune, Feels ‘Like a Dummy’” at http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=afyLWnoS2WlA
Pork chops and green beans in butter
Pork chops, coated liberally in salt and pepper, seared in butter a minute each side, then covered for a few minutes each side over medium heat. Topped with pan juices and red wine, reduced for a minute. Plated with sauteed green beans. Can you achieve the feeling you get after such a meal any other way? All things considered, a very economical means of solving all your problems.
“Whenever people asked me the question “how do you follow 12 thousand people?” it...”
– Excerpt from Steffan Antonas’ “Focusing On Value: How I’m Changing How I Use Twitter” at http://blog.steffanantonas.com/focusing-on-value-how-im-changing-how-i-use-twitter.htm
“A hunter attacked by a grizzly bear in southern Montana also had the misfortune...”
– Excerpt from Helena IR at http://helenair.com/news/state-and-regional/article_12ba51ae-ba1b-11de-89c8-001cc4c002e0.html
“I think one of the perspectives little addressed in this terrific thread is that...”
– Excerpt from Tim O’Reilly’s “He not busy being born is busy dying” as said by Michael Coffey at http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/10/he-not-busy-being-born-is-busy.html
“But when [the HIV infected kids] arrived, they found an uprising by the parents...”
– Excerpt from Seth Mydans’ “Exiled From School, H.I.V.-Infected Orphans Learn a Bitter Lesson” at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/world/asia/14orphans.html
“And do you know what most [airlines] wanted to talk about? You guessed it. The...”
– Excerpt from Jason Kottke’s “Airlines nickel and diming themselves to death” at http://kottke.org/09/10/airlines-nickel-and-diming-themselves-to-death
“You will never be out of work if you can demonstrably offer one of the...”
– Excerpted from “The three elements of full employment” by Seth Godin:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/10/the-three-elements-of-full-employment.html
“Last week, two days before that hearing, Governor Rick Perry replaced three...”
– From latest story on Texas’ execution of an innocent man for arson and murder: http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/100809kvue_innocent-execution-possible-eh.1f7663d2c.html
Also, see the New Yorker story at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/090907fa_fact_grann/.
“How then, can we claim that the founders would support the restriction of access...”
– http://jaslarue.blogspot.com/2008/07/uncle-bobbys-wedding.html