April 2010
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On Quitting While You're Ahead
META-SPLOSION! Yesterday I saw a blog dedicated to a blog - and it was climbing up the Y Combinator front page. JWB’s blog will summarize Joel on Software’s many lessons down to one sentence per essay. While this may not sound like a useful exercise, it’s a great way to index the thousands of essays written by software guru Joel Spolsky. Spolsky recently wrote that he was hanging...
March 2010
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Complaining about Noise is Noise
If one more coddled internet celebrity complains about “breaking through the social media noise”, I’m going to tip them out of their Aeron chair and dump 6 kinds of recycling and an Odwalla juice on them. Noise about noise is not only noise, but it’s noise that is 5-year-old rhetoric. Ummm, Kanye West called, he wants his attitude and noise back.
There’s tons of...
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Streets of Plenty
We just watched the movie Streets of Plenty - a documentary about a coddled College kid who attempts to live in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 30 days in order to experience homelessness. Given that I’d worked with a bunch of active intravenous drug users through a women’s services clinic in that same area, I was intrigued.
Once I realized the student was approaching...
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Gyrobike & The Importance of Pain
I just read an article about the Gyrobike. It’s a $99 dollar bike wheel that provides stability at very slow speeds. In other words, it’s a really expensive training wheel to make sure your kid doesn’t get owwies. You’re going to think I’m a bitch for saying this, but what’s wrong with letting your kid wipe out?
If you’ve never experienced pain or...
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I'm Wearing Pants...and an Additional Hat
For the last week my usual blogger cave of pajamas and dirty cereal bowls has been dormant. Instead, I’ve been scheduling my ReadWriteWeb posts, showering and making my way to SOMA every morning before 10am. In other words, I am putting on pants. THE STORY In 1999, only 2 years after Larry and Sergey had renamed the BackRub search engine to the now search-giant Google, brothers Pirouz and Peyman...
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