May 2012
3 posts
Say Yes
I posted this quote from Chris Dixon a couple of months ago and it’s been lingering in my head since then:
You could tweet and blog predictions that every new startup will fail and how the ideas are derivative and you’d be right 95% of the time. The hard part – and what matters for founders and investors – is figuring out the right mix of timing and execution to finally get it right.
A...
There has been a lot of talk lately about the quality of shots on Dribbble.
God, I hope that’s not true. People should be talking about something way more interesting.
via Jeff Broderick
April 2012
5 posts
“If you go to an incubator that is not Y Combinator, that is perceived as a...”
– Peter Thiel
How Andreessen Horowitz Bunted on an Instagram... →
Culture
I enjoyed Peter Thiel’s essay on culture. We take culture really seriously at GitHub and it’s a hard thing to define. Saying someone is a culture fit doesn’t mean they like good beer or that they’re a Ruby fanboy. It’s much bigger and much deeper than that.
Part of Thiel’s definition of company culture is:
Good company culture is more nuanced than simple...
Coffee →
March 2012
1 post
“Don’t worry if something you want to do will constrain you in the long...”
– Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
February 2012
1 post
“You could tweet and blog predictions that every new startup will fail and how...”
– And then, suddenly, it works - Chris Dixon
January 2012
1 post
“I have lost more money to creative accounting, and American workers have lost...”
– Wil Wheaton Says Chris Dodd Is Lying About Lost Jobs
September 2011
1 post
“There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.”
– Freeman Dyson, seen in Make things by Caterina Fake
August 2011
1 post
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to...”
– Steve Jobs
December 2010
1 post
“You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.”
– Ricky Gervais: Why I’m An Atheist
November 2010
4 posts
“It is through science, and the discovery of scientific processes, that I came to...”
– Bill Nye’s acceptance speech for Humanist of the Year
“The fans sitting up there are helpless,” he said. “They can’t pick up a bat and...”
– Giants Win : The New Yorker
“…the greatest thing you learn while getting a college education is that you...”
– 52 Weeks of UX
October 2010
3 posts
“For I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all,...”
– John Steinbeck (via kneath)
“Please don’t be cynical…Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they...”
“We look from the Milky Way into the universe beyond. Life and time are enriched...”
– Moon Worlds’ Fair
December 2009
1 post
“It takes three years to become an overnight success, sometimes more.”
– Seth Godin
September 2009
3 posts
“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to...”
– Edward Tufte
“The simplest version works the best, and the first version is never the...”
– On Prototyping
“Having waited decades for an innocent victim of capital punishment, the fact...”
– The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent criminal
August 2009
2 posts
“Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both...”
“Sketching isn’t about being able to draw, it’s about being able to think”
– Adactio
June 2009
2 posts
“So can we finally, finally call this thing what it is? Quality journalism is...”
– The newspaper suicide pact
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
3 posts
“Companies committed to a culture of antidesign (also consultants like Jakob...”
– The Extreme Google Brain (via kneath)
Overall this is a good article if you ignore the parts that actually attack Google. They simply do what has worked for them, there is no reason for them to change until it stops working.
“Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.”
– Frank Thomas
“William Henry Gates III made his best decision on October 28, 1955, the night he...”
– How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates
March 2009
1 post
“Now, you would think that the more ambitious student is the one who would choose...”
– gladwell dot com - getting in