May 2012
For Lack Of A Better Face by The Strange Boys Oh...
“There may be romance in constructing high-speed passenger rail but if...”
– My Dad
I think I tend to agree. Which is an oddity.
“St. Louis attracted more young people than it lost in each of the past three...”
– Rust Belt chic: Declining Midwest cities make a comeback - Salon.com
STL 4 life
(via lolololori)
Boom goes the dynamite. More of this. Everytime I drop by a smaller industrial city: Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Milwaukee I always find these incredibly vibrant neighborhoods emerging out of these...
“Months before Bruno Iksil became famous as the “London whale,” the...”
– Are we surprised at the outcome? The moral hazard within publicly held banks is absurd. I mean no one can possibly think that the status quo can hold.
And the crazy part is that it’s not Bruno’s fault. He’s just taking advantage of rules created by executive and congressional...
Foward Forward Back When you think of Missouri the...
“That is mental!” one source says. “We recommend 15 - 25 percent on...”
– See this is a Facebook person recommending that your brand spend the largest percentage of your money on Facebook ads. GM has said they aren’t doing that. What’s interesting is that GM isn’t saying it’s going to stop spending on Facebook. It’s just saying they are going...
“The glory years before Wrigley are like the age before the flood, when exotic...”
– Why Wrigley Field Must Be Destroyed - WSJ.com
Torch it and let’s get some runs!
(via crowisland)
Burn the thing down for god’s sake. Enough is enough.
“Hey Tumblrsphere,
We’re looking for a Social Media Strategist obsessed with...”
– (via gothaminc)
the wind caresses her hair by Sun Glitters...
“Look, I love programming. I also believe programming is important … in the right...”
– Jeff Atwood, “Please Don’t Learn To Code” (via evan)
I learned to program (in part, at least) for the same reason that I’ve gone on sales calls, learned to read a P&L, put together marketing plans, and — yes — learned to do some basic plumbing.
Other people are better at all of these things...
“This may not have violated the Volcker Rule, but it violates the Dimon...”
– JPMorgan Discloses $2 Billion in Trading Losses - NYTimes.com
Pompous much Mr. Dimon?
(via crowisland)
Ugh.
Etsy Becomes a Certified B Corporation
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Today’s blog post is over at the USV blog on Etsy becoming a certified B Corp. It all started with this. Congrats to Chad and the team at Etsy on taking transparency and responsibility to the community and making it not just a commitment but also something that is measured.
All the Beautiful Things in the World by Caged...
“This is very much a short-head, long-tail dataset, with the short head having...”
– Felix Salmon describing our industry. The truth hurts.
How venture capital is broken | Felix Salmon
(via fred-wilson)
This seems to be our broader economic reality. The question is what industries can sustain and socially thrive delivering long tail returns? My belief is that you can deliver long...
Taste Water, Glow Blue by Selva Oscura Enya beats....
“Every really good creative person…whom I have ever known has always had two...”
– James Webb Young, writing in his 1939 guide to producing ideas, articulates a timeless truth about the relationship between curiosity and creativity. (via explore-blog)
curiosity-the skeleton key to a life well lived.
“The Jeffries were convinced the USDA wasn’t seeing the problem as they were....”
– Local Meat Butchering Goes Nano
Massively awesome! Think small to solve big.
April 2012
