February 2010
14 posts
What's more important: an entrepreneur with a...
This is the question I’ve been pondering ever since hearing the story of Michael Robertson (founder of MP3.com) on ThisWeekInStartups (skip to the interview part around 44 minutes.)
It seems that Robertson’s entrepreneurial strategy — with all his doom and glory — has been to see a general trend (he noticed the word “MP3” was rising on search engine...
WatchRaghava KK: Five lives of an artist
The Lucky Foreigner with a Half-Working Laptop
The last month of my life has been a horror movie in terms of laptops, but a couple days ago, it finally had its happy ending.
A month ago, I accidentally spilled water on my 13” MacBook. The incident was so accidental that even a supreme being wouldn’t have seen it coming, but what was worse was my way of handling it: instead of immediately freaking out and detaching the battery, I...
TED: A Social IQ Test →
As some would know, I have a love and hate relationship with the TED conference. I love it because I get to know about some of the most interesting stuff and people in this world (alas, through Internet video.) I hate it because of its stuck-up rich people top 0.001% of the world audience who want to cure AIDS but think the best way to do it is by going to a $6000 super-exclusive invite-only...
Input (needs) Output
We consume a lot of information in our lives. Newspapers, blogs, tweets, podcasts, articles, videos. This input is necessary and keeps us informed about the world. What else is necessary, though, is the filtering of this input; an output. That output can be talking about a current event incident with your friends around a water-cooler, or writing a blog post with your thoughts on the launch of...
“We spend the first few year’s of a child’s life teaching them to...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson on PBS Horizon
“In the journey of life, there are two roads to choose from. The first one is...”
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“I’m a tool builder. That’s how I think of myself. I want to build...”
– Steve Jobs in a very rare Rolling Stone interview from 1994
Boxee's response to NBC's president and CEO, Jeff... →
(via zachklein)
Aziz Ansari: Fresh Air on NPR →
