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Gruber's WWDC 2009 Predictions
What I know, don’t know, and know I don’t know about tomorrow’s WWDC announcements. As usual, please, no wagering.
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How to make a movement. Lessons learned from dancing guy.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Some people like to pay. Let them.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Are fans telling friends? If not, improve, don't promote.
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Conferences
Last week my friend Mark Pincus noted, via twitter, that I was not at the D conference and wondered if I knew something others did not. I replied back to Mark that I'm not a big fan of attending conferences. I don't go to TED and never have and don't think I ever will. I […]
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Hardware is Expensive, Programmers are Cheap
In response to Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive at Coding Horror: The million-dollar question: What’s wrong with this picture?...
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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
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Excerpts From the Diary of an [iTunes] App Store Reviewer
Not sure what a “lingam” is, but if it means what I think it means, just thinking about it is making mine swell. Jackpot. Rejected app for inappropriate content.
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What I learned from screwing up my first ebook launch
JavaScript Performance Rocks! is my first ebook, written by me and my husband, Mr. Scriptaculous (legal alias: Thomas Fuchs).
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You are the problem: the reason why so many startups don't get venture funding
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My $3.3M Mistake
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Why Isn't Paypal More Successful?
I just bought a replacement part at an online store I've never shopped in before. I was dreading the checkout process since I have not committed my various credit cards to memory. But thankfully this store offered checkout with Paypal. I clicked on it, entered my paypal credentials, and was out of the store in […]
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Starting a business isn't as crazy and risky as they say
If you're thinking about starting a new venture right now, you need to understand the risks, but you need the real risks. The truth (as always) lies between baseless off-hand remarks about how "95% of businesses fail" (false!) and those startup blogs that show only the rosy side of things.
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Just do it
Tinkerer, designer, and angel investor. Building software products and backing early-stage startups.
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Apple bans an iPhone e-reader because it provides access to the Kama Sutra
Eucalyptus is an iPhone application that that lets you download and read books from the expansive Project Gutenberg library of free public-domain works. Judging from its Web site, it's more or less comparable to Amazon's Kindle application--except all the content is free, and the interface looks to
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Google Calculating Which Employees Are About to Quit
[Google] recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.
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