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Play Birds?

Audio, text, or play birds? I don’t know about you, but given those choices, the birds are a clear winner.

Do Stuff

I was walking by Radio Shack today and noticed they have a new tag-line: Radio Shack – Do Stuff™ I would have absolutely killed to be in the room when this was decided. “We need a call to action that speaks to the youth of today. Anybody have kids? Ask them what they do on [...]

Local food, farm

Jul, Niko, and I went to La Bodeguita del Medio last night for dinner (the one in Palo Alto, not Cuba). I highly recommend it if you are into Cuban food. Great food, great drinks, and they took us without reservation at 7pm despite being packed. I’ve also been meaning to blog about Farm Fresh [...]

Peace with…

Jul and I started reading Leroy’s blog after seeing him on a Tedd Koppel documentary about living with cancer. He is one of the most open, honest, and articulate writers I’ve read in a long time. This morning’s post was no exception, When I say that I found peace, I think I mean that I [...]

Age — another thing for an entrepreneur to ignore

There has been a recent spat of blog posts suggesting 30 (26?) is past an entrepreneur’s prime. As an entrepreneur you are building something most people don’t understand, using a business model people think is stupid. Your competitors are throwing rocks at you, large companies are encroaching on your space, and you haven’t slept without [...]

Flickr slideshows

Flickr released a long overdue overhaul to their slideshow functionality last week. To a Flickr junky like me, this is big news.

Meetup vs. Google

Hilarious post by Scott Heiferman (Meetup’s CEO) on working at Meetup vs. working at Google. He forgot about the scooters. I only work at Google because we get to ride scooters. (Hat tip, Valleywag.)

Hitforge @ 106 miles

Instead of our typical round table discussion at 106 miles, Naval Ravikant spoke about his new venture Hitforge. Naval has started too many companies to list here, and also did time as a venture capitalist. He is also the creator of the Venture Hacks blog, which I highly recommend. Naval believes the current venture capital [...]

Universal Music can keep me informed!

I was opening a CD yesterday [1] and for some reason I actually read the “customer information” leaflet included in the packaging. I have to admit it has to be one of the more ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. Not only is it absurd, but I can’t imagine anybody returns them. Ever. I starts with [...]

Founders at Work

I recently finished Jessica Livingston’s Founders at Work. I recommend the book to anybody who enjoys the world of startups. If you don’t want to invest the time to read the whole book I highly recommend at least reading the interview with Phillip Greenspun on his experience with ArsDigita (Chapter 24). It is an amazing [...]