January 2012
5 posts
Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups →
michaelgluzman:
1. Don’t start a company unless it’s an obsession and something you love.
2. If you have an exit strategy, it’s not an obsession.
3. Hire people who you think will love working there.
4. Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
5. Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core...
December 2011
10 posts
November 2011
2 posts
October 2011
5 posts
WatchThis makes me happy.
wingo:
hey ID nerds
gravitysleeps:
Bring to Light: The latest illumination experiment from Nuit Blanche.
We shot a lot of what you see here, but the real spectacle can only have been seen with your own eyes! Look out for the next one.
“Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is...”
– Steven Paul Jobs
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
September 2011
4 posts
8 tags
A letter from Scott Heiferman, CEO of Meetup,...
Fellow Meetuppers, I don’t write to our whole community often, but this week is special because it’s the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and many people don’t know that Meetup is a 9/11 baby. Let me tell you the Meetup story. I was living a couple miles from the Twin Towers, and I was the kind of person who thought local community doesn’t matter much if we’ve got the...
August 2011
7 posts
Separation of Church and School
by Katherine Steward / The New York Times
“A number of the new churches are the work of national ‘church-planting’ organizations attracted to New York by the combination of cheap space and the opportunity to save the city from its apparent godlessness…I could go on about why my daughter’s photo should not be made available for acts of...
A letter from an Oslo survivor. “Your actions... →
promotingpeace:
Dear Anders Behring Breivik,
A lot of the friends I met at Utoya are dead and you are the perpetrator. You are the man who, by coincidence, didn’t kill me. I was lucky.
You might think that you have won. You might think that you have ruined something for the Labour Party and for people around the world who stand for a multicultural society by killing my friends and fellow party...
July 2011
10 posts
June 2011
6 posts
I just found out that I got accepted into Columbia’s GSAPP for Master of Architecture I, which will cost me another $21,000 per a semester, for at least 6 more semesters. But I already accepted the job offer from HSBC, which starts on August 1st.
What should I do?
I learned something strange but interesting about pentachlorophenol-treated wooden utility poles today.
Did you know that compared to a penta-treated utility pole, use of a concrete utility pole results in 4 times more fossil fuel use, 20 times more GHG, 77 times more acid rain, 4 times more water use, 5 times more eutrophication (excessive nutrients in lakes due to runoffs), and over 14 times...
May 2011
2 posts
