August 2008
30 posts
Obama's story is wonderful, but that’s not all... →
Well said:
I’m actually going to get to vote for someone this time. That [Obama] is a regular guy, who started with no privileged position, whose family built their successes on the backs of sound American policies like the GI Bill and student loans and home ownership stands as a testament to what we can do when government provides people with opportunities and hope. His candidacy is about more...
Tim Ferriss interview with Derek Sivers →
Excellent life hacks here and good stuff on marketing and promoting online.
Traffic engineer Hans Monderman is proving fewer... →
My interest in traffic continues.
Traffic signs, for Monderman, were an invitation to stop thinking, to stop acting on one’s own volition.
So….
At the town center of Drachten, in a crowded four- way intersection called the Laweiplein, Monderman removed not only the traffic lights but virtually every other traffic control. Instead of a space cluttered with poles, lights, “traffic islands,”...
Kids don't "go out and play" anymore →
I used to spend hours a day “riding bikes”, climbing the trees in the neighborhood, and just generally hanging out w/ friends. And it was all good as long as I was home by dark.
Watchgah… amazing. Death Star over San Francisco // Current
6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal... →
“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.”
– Zappos.com CEO -Tony Hsieh: Passing on best quote I heard today…
Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars... →
Holy shit, this is a brilliant and unique vision to organize personal transportation.
I love these quotes:
“Once you have a mission,” Agassi told me over dinner one night last winter, “you can’t go back to having a job.”
and
After a career spent thinking exclusively about business software, Agassi now thrills to the idea that he’s changing the world. “I...
Jason Calacanis On How To Get PR For Your Startup →
Ten paradoxical traits of the creative... →
“When we’re creative, we feel we are living more fully than during the rest of life. The excitement of the artist at the easel or the scientist in the lab comes dose to the ideal fulfillment we all hope to get from life, and so rarely do. Perhaps only sex, sports, music, and religious ecstasy—even when these experiences remain fleeting and leave no trace—provide a profound...
Startup Marketing Advice from Balsamiq Studio →
Good advice on marketing a new product.
Seven writers on how they have learnt to live in... →
Interview With Nassim Nicholas Taleb →
WatchSeligman wrote Authentic Happiness, an excellent book on living a meaningful, engaged, and pleasant life. (via Martin Seligman on positive psychology)
“The easiest way to build a product that kicks ass is to start with someone...”
– Stevey’s Blog Rants: Business Requirements are Bullshit
What I Learned about Persuasion while Buying a Rug... →
“Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul....”
– Henry Rollins (via jdubblog)
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in...”
– Bob Dylan (via jdubblog)
Abraham Maslow’s 8 Ways to Self-Actualize →
What magic tells us about attention and the brain →
Demographic Inversion is occurring in American... →
Demographic inversion has affluent and typically white folks moving back downtown, and poorer and non-white people moving to the suburbs.
Atlanta, for example, is shifting from an overwhelmingly black to what is likely to soon be a minority-black city. This is happening in part because the white middle class is moving inside the city borders, but more so because blacks are moving out. Between 1990...
WatchFarmstead Wines is run by Anthony Nicalo, a friend of mine. They find and distribute fine wines from tiny artisanal European producers who aren’t big enough to distribute in North America.
People want to pay for stuff →
WatchMy morning Vancouver bike ride / commute on Vimeo, made with my brand-new Gorillapod!
Fascinating article on internet Trolls and online... →