July 2010
19 posts
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“Several people have told me they like the iPad because it lets them bring the...”
– Paul Graham, footnote to The Acceleration of Addictiveness
Jul 26th
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“The world is more addictive than it was 40 years ago. And unless the forms of...”
– Paul Graham, The Acceleration of Addictiveness
Jul 26th
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“If you want to place blame for tarmac delays, bad airline customer service, and...”
– Evan Konwiser, How We Buy Plane Tickets and Why It’s Ruining Air Travel Evan is one of the founders of Flightcast. Another little snippet: The commodity phenomenon has created a perverse incentive system for the airlines. It means the activities that drives their business the most is cost...
Jul 26th
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Oh, Tellme Your History
With all of the fan-boyism around pivoting startups and customer development, I thought I would dredge one of the originals of the genre out of the murky past: Tellme. My personal history with Tellme is that I almost moved out to California to join them as an engineer and a very early employee in 1999 (at age 18)—and instead decided I didn’t want to move to California and ended up at...
Jul 26th
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“I thought, it’s 2007, and this can’t be all that the Internet is meant to be,”...”
– Mark Pincus, Founder of Zynga in the NY Times
Jul 24th
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Jul 22nd
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“As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a...”
– Joan Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem found via natashavc’s The Secret of Don Draper’s Sex Appeal.
Jul 22nd
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“Technology is a big destroyer of emotion and truth. It doesn’t do anything...”
– Jack White, It Might Get Loud
Jul 19th
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“Yesterday, a guy who spent seven seasons with the team that drafted him...”
– Tommy Craggs, Counterpoint: LeBron James is Not a Cocksucker
Jul 16th
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I'm Intrigued is the New Poke: How About We...
think about how to apply better social psychology to How About We. How About We is the new darling of dating sites with a simple concept: just propose an activity for a first date. They then match you up with other users and if you’re interested in what they propose (as well as their basic profile and some profile photos), you can say, “I’m Intrigued.” Unfortunately...
Jul 13th
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david: Chris’ new years fog horn
Jul 13th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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ellens asked: What was the best compliment you've ever received?
Jul 12th
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Jul 12th
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Jul 8th
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“In most people’s minds, spending money on luxuries sets off alarms that...”
– Paul Graham, How to Lose Time and Money
Jul 6th
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“Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and to stare....”
– David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram
Jul 3rd
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“The first real archaeological evidence of a keep-left or keep-right type rule...”
– Why Some Countries Drive on the Right and Some Drive on the Left - Today I Found Out I love the way people figure things out—archeological and anthropological inference.
Jul 1st