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.)
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 model [...]
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 a [...]
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 [...]
I have no idea what they are advertising, but this is a great ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_toelZ664c
I’m lucky I have an extremely forgiving wife, and no younger brother.
I spend a lot of time looking at screen mock-ups through my browser, and I’m always annoyed when Firefox decides to resize the image because it doesn’t exactly fit in my viewport. This forces me to click on every image to expand it to the full size. Turns out, you can switch this default.
Type “about:config” [...]
What is it with these updaters? They seem obsessed with updating themselves…
This message struck me as existential.
Although I suppose it makes sense that the updater knows how to update itself.
I wasn’t sure how to take this ad. Is my search engine trying to tell me something?
I’ve played the violin since age four (although not much in the last ten years). This topic came up the other day on the plane to which my seatmate commented, “violin is a great life skill.” I nodded politely while thinking, “the violin is soooo not a life skill.”
Life skills are abilities and talents that [...]
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