October 2011
2 posts
“I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve made time for a...”
– John Gruber - Universe Dented, Grass Underfoot
“The quality I especially revered in him was his refusal to show contempt for his...”
– Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs
March 2010
0 posts
Random thoughts on being an entrepreneur →
Brilliant take on entrepreneurship from the author of Gaping Void.
February 2010
4 posts
3 tags
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation →
How Management Demotivates, and what you can do about it… Nice article …
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Toward a Grand Unified Theory of n00bs →
Great post on understanding your users. Contrary to popular belief, NOT all of them are geeks :D
Talking to God... →
Absolutely brilliant piece of writing …
October 2009
2 posts
What's A Non-Programmer To Do? →
Really nice overview of how much more there is to a startup than just programming. Several good reasons to have a specialist than doing it all yourself.
Git: Your New Best Friend →
Nice article.
January 2009
1 post
Royalty Free Stock Photos at Fotolia.com →
December 2008
2 posts
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George Oates (of Flickr): Not quite what I had in... →
Yahoo lays off George. This is certainly _not_ the way to handle this.
George - I am sorry about this. And Good Luck in the next endeavor
“We tease. And when we do, we look for traces of the telltale signs of desire —...”
– In Defense of Teasing - NYTimes.com
November 2008
3 posts
The End of Wall Street's Boom →
Brilliant article by Michael Lewis on what went wrong in Wall Street.
On a side note, books by the same author - http://bit.ly/TbO8
Aliens Cause Global Warming →
RIP Michael - And thank you for this wonderful insight.
What I Believe →
“I believe I.T. DOES matter (but not for the reasons IT people think it does) and that ultimately, people don’t want drills, they want holes” - Great blog post
October 2008
2 posts
Digital Casserole: What I Believe →
WatchClay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
September 2008
1 post
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Jason Fried - Things We’ve Learned at 37Signals →
“Optimize for now. Don’t worry too much about what might happen. Focus on today.” - Wise words indeed. Brilliant post.
August 2008
5 posts
How to Get the Most Out of Your Eccentric... →
Great description of geeks in general…
Do you know any programmers that exhibit these... →
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Chris Wanstrath's Keynote from rubyhoedown2008 →
My plea to you today is to start a side project. Scratch your ownitch. Be creative. Share something with the world, or keep it toyourself.
In Praise of Scripting: Real Programming... →
Why I’m Not Working on My Startup (Yet) →
Good article on planning your next startup…
July 2008
3 posts
Randy Pausch dies, and the world loses a true hero →
We will miss you, Randy. RIP.
The Vietnam of Computer Science →
I concur… To a large extent anyways…
Lucky to be a Programmer →
Just how I feel…
June 2008
3 posts
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Is it worthy? →
I quote -
“The object isn’t to be perfect. The goal isn’t to hold back until you’ve created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.”
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Malcolm Gladwell on the hiring "mismatch" problem →
Malcolm Gladwell is a brilliant speaker. Listening to the Tipping Point was a pleasure…
May 2008
10 posts
xkcd - When did we start forgetting our dreams? →
WatchClay Shirky: Where Do They Find The Time?
Facebook and The Future of Competition →
Umair Haque on Evil, and the future of business. Brilliant article
Bruce Lee’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Getting Your... →
Advice from Bruce Lee… on how to whip your life into shape… Words of wisdom indeed.
Seth's Blog: What do you know? →
Seth Godin on the rules for marketing… and about how to treat your customers, and in my opinion, people in general. Brilliant…
The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto →
I don’t have any words to describe this article. Wow… Thank you sir. Thank you…
The day the music died →
Seth's Blog: Avoiding the Passion Pop Gulf →
Brilliant… Pop vs Passion… Finding your niche… or making a choice
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An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We... →
The lack of process in the art of programming…
Larry Page on how to change the world →
“Even when we started Google, we thought, “Oh, we might fail,” and we almost didn’t do it. The reason we started is that Stanford said, “You guys can come back and finish your Ph.D.s if you don’t succeed.” Its all about risk, and how you can manage it…
April 2008
4 posts
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How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory →
Eric Schmidt on how Google manages to launch one innovative product after another
Perfecting OO's Small Classes and Short Methods →
Great guidelines for thinking along true OO programming lines…
http://innig.net/software/ruby/closures-in-ruby.rb →
Some really cool examples demo’ing Ruby closures and how they work!
March 2008
2 posts
WatchThe 80/20 Business rule
February 2008
10 posts
Underground Value: Notes From Buffett Meeting... →
Does Fatherhood Make You Happy? →
On why having kids does not make you happy… And why it may not matter…
Look before you leak →
Bob Cringely on Internet security vs. control… and WikiLeaks
When Geek Relationships Get Old →
Words of the wise… This site rocks! Love it!
The posture of a communicator →
Seth on communicating… As always, well said… :D
Windows Firewall... →
Pretty funny…