Category: Social
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Do You Need To Be A Jerk To Be A Successful Entrepreneur?
A few words about Mr. Jobs, by way of a Wired Article, The Story of Steve Jobs: An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale?, and Vinod Khosla‘s response to it.
Austen’s article draws a caricature of Jobs and puts forth a series of false choices. After reading it, you might be convinced that you can either be a jerk and successful or decent and mediocre.… Continued
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Facebook and Twitter, the AOL and CompuServe of Today
Good piece from Matthew Ingram. I like to compare Facebook and Twitter to AOL and CompuServe of the old internet days… and wonder when the open social network will come around, like “the internet” came around to save us from the other guys’ closed ecosystems?… Continued
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The Trap of Marginal Thinking
Interesting and motivational. Go read it.
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.
via Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”.
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Irreducible
Some good thoughts, and a nice quote:
The future is in apps you don’t open
via Irreducible.
My primary example for this is always that in the future, the computer (whatever it’s going to be called) will know what you want before you know, and will have delivered it.… Continued
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Contrarian Analysts
You know why an analyst sometimes go all in on contrarian opinions? Because if they turn out to have been right, they get all the recognition for having been the first to see a new trend. And if they were wrong, then it’s just one more time they weren’t 100% right.… Continued
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Nexus Q: On the importance of failing fast
I’ve been thinking about failure culture and innovation quite a bit recently. Here’s another good example:
Google’s cancellation of the Nexus Q launch was a surprise to me, even though I expected its introduction to be an utter disaster.… Continued
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New Programming Jargon
TGIF: New Programming Jargon. A little time waster that’s been waiting in my “to-blog” box for a some time now…
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The Search For Meaningful Work
Reminded me about my recent self:
One of the key components to finding long term happiness is doing meaningful work. But in the modern world, meaningful work has become increasingly more difficult to find. A couple of hundred years ago, a person could look back on a day and see the field they planted that would feed their family.… Continued
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Instagram and Twitter
A long article to say that Instagram is to news photographers what Twitter was to the news journalists: it’s faster, and reaches more places, but most of it isn’t relevant, has no interest in competing with the pros.
For a simple service that lets people share their photos with others from a mobile device, Instagram gets a lot of criticism, bordering on hate.… Continued