August 2008
43 posts
Going to the us open. Pumped
WatchJudy Estrin on the Innovation Gap
“But consider the case of choosing from a restaurant menu. The obvious choices,...”
– Eliezer Yudkowsky
EconLog, My Campaign-Season Pledge, Arnold Kling:... →
I tend to agree with Arnold. I noticed that I also was a little bitter when Barack made a few of his pledges last night. I get bitter too when McCain does his pledging as well. I think that we are much better off working within the constraints. Problem solving is a function of working within boundaries, without boundaries it is impossible to find a solution; too much choice.
The fundamental...
How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal →
This is amazing. Way to go Kristin.
Cubs Fans vs Sox Fans
“You go to Wrigley Field, you have a beer, beautiful people up there,” Obama said in an ESPN interview. “People aren’t watching the game. It’s not serious. White Sox, that’s baseball. South Side.”
-Barack Obama
As a Cubs fan I totally get this comment and as a son of Winnetka I’ve lived this comment. Still, I wish it weren’t the case.
“Yes, if you drive an hour out of Beijing, you meet the vast dirt-poor third...”
– Thomas Friedman
“Obama may yet recover his core focus. Now he has to preserve it against his most...”
– David Brooks
“China was insane. All of those who say it’s the next great super power are...”
– James Funk
“This conclusion also helps us answer another critical question on the minds of...”
– Umair Haque
Upending Budweiser and Data Marketplaces
Just got back to NYC from an amazing week in upstate NY (Poolville to be exact). It was a mix of relaxation and business and so I enter this final week of August thinking about how we can fulfill our destiny and build our data marketplace. I am also thinking about Umair Haque and how to build a business that can redefine industrial beer production in the US. I think that Budweiser and Miller are...
Heard Thievery Corporation at dinner. Here’s...
Seth's Blog: Old marketing with new tools →
My wife always talks about her love of the handwritten thank you note and I must admit to thinking she is absolutely right, but not moving quite as quickly to actually write the note. It seems Seth and my wife are on the same page.
“Whether physical production can ever dominate the American landscape again is...”
– Chris Morrison
Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen: Internet... →
“To be reflexively against growth is as numb-minded as to be reflexively for it....”
– Jonathan Rowe
Something a little different from this prepster...
“But I think the single greatest contributor to this ‘mainstreaming’...”
– Fred Wilson
“No matter what year you were born, by the time you finish high school, its a...”
– Mark Cuban
Buy This Book--Love Napa Valley Wine
withitbanter:
Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine
By George M. Taber
Garrett was telling me all about this book and while there were a few sections that may have dragged, he couldn’t seem to put it down. It’s on my list.
WatchVideo Response: A Manifesto for the Next Industrial Revolution - Umair Haque
I am not a huge fan of online video, I rarely watch, but for those who don’t read Umair Haque, this is probably the easiest way for you to consume his rather profound ideas.
Strategic change will be wrenching to our economy, but it will also create lots of opportunity. By the way, in terms of fighting back against...
“I learned a lesson: It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when...”
– Steve Martin
“I learned a lesson: It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when...”
– Steve Martin
Testing tumblr integration
“Deciding friendability has become a new and necessary social skill. Here is a...”
– Kevin Kelly
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So I just updated my Firefox browser with the Zemanta plug in. I am conflicted as to how useful it will be for my tumblogging, but it is really important to me that I be able to reblog all of my stuff here to my main blog at You, Me and My API at the moment this is not entirely clear to me how this reblogging works and the suggestions are not blowing me away.
I really need something that...
WatchI think this video is poor strategy. Obama is wrong in trying to paint McCain with the same celebrity brush that McCain is painting Obama with; not an altogether creative strategy. Fact of the matter is that they are both celebrity politicians, so these respective moves just seem to wash eachother out. I prefer capitalizing on this opportunity with a strategy espoused by my favorite ;) liberal...
“Bootstrapping sounds great in principle, but this apparently verdant territory...”
– Paul Graham
Tyler's Trying Tumblr • iPhone version →
Pretty cool way to instantly turn your tumblog into an iPhone compatible blog. Check it out.
Updated Theme
My beautiful wife preferred my brother’s Tumblr design over mine. As usual Garrett has kept it simple and as a consequence he was triumphant in this design throwdown. However, I am stubborn and won’t just roll over and copy my brother. No I’ve decided to experiment with different themes till I get it right.
Here’s the latest. What do you think of that G?
“Architecture, for me anyway, involves intention, game theory, systems thinking...”
– Seth Godin
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“Architecture, for me anyway, involves intention, game theory, systems thinking...”
– Seth Godin
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“We’re living through the greatest expansion in human expressive capability...”
– Clay Shirky
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Is this Facebooks Fate?
“Alternatively, I might put my money on a Viacom acquisition: after a decade of dumbing down nearly all of its once awesome assets, teenagers are increasingly lamed out by me-too value propositions. But they’re hanging out on Facebook in droves.”
-Umair Haque
I hope not
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“So, yes, there are some entitled-acting young people entering business today,...”
– Jack and Suzy Welch
“…but I am becoming convinced that the data piece, and not the...”
– Mike Hirshland
Slapped Actress - The Hold Steady
Awesomeness
“Sometimes, though, its just nice to get unbridled support on the vision rather...”
– Charlie O’Donnell
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“One of the next phases of growth and large revenue opportunities will be driven...”
– Ed Sim