How to Ask for an Introduction
I don’t know a ton of important people. But as a founder of a venture-backed startup with some amazing investors and advisors, I do know a few.
Why I went without hot water for a year
Josh founded his first tech company at 23, creating real-time vehicle tracking on the web — later acquired by Ford Motor Co. He spent a decade traveling the globe, studying consciousness and scaling local food systems .
Emotional Rescue
To discount the emotional appeal of Apple’s products is to ignore the entire point of Apple’s products.
Beyond the 10,000 Hour Rule: Richard Hamming and the Messy Art of Becoming Great
What Makes Great Scientists Great? In March of 1986, an overflow audience of over 200 researchers and staff members from Bell Laboratories piled into the ... Read more
How a Vim user converts to Emacs
For many years I thought that the heretics of the Emacs clan [1] were clearly insane – the followers of Vim were obviously following the True Path. And then I was snared by the dark side. My …
Zawinski: iPad just-slightly insufficiently futurey
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Lisp interpreter in 90 lines of C++
I've enjoyed reading Peter Norvig's recent articles on Lisp. He implements a Scheme interpreter in 90 lines of Python in the first , and dev...
Mono 2.8 has been released
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Gave up a day job Now what? - Income report #3
So here is my another monthly income report. At the beginning I would like to thank to all my loyal readers that are visiting my site (leave a comment on this post with a short HI if you want me to…
The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend) (Charles Stross)
The continual plaint in newspapers around the world is that the news media are in big trouble. Au contraire: what's in trouble is their monetization model.
Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference
Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting i…
A Cautionary Tale from the Startup World
Marketing, entrepreneurship, and the ongoing study of how influence spreads (with the occasional interlude on travel, pasta, TV -- the important stuff) from founder Rand Fishkin.
Deceiving Users with the Facebook Like Button
Facebook just launched a super-easy widget called "The Facebook Like Button". Website owners can add a simple iframe snippet to their html, enabling a nice "Like" button with a count of other people's "Likes" and a list of faces of people if any of them are your friends. The advantage of this new tool is that you…
Facebook's DKIM RSA key should be crackable
If Facebook sends you a mail they will sign it using DKIM . Here are the headers from a mail I received the other day: DKIM-Signature: v=1...