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1.0NAFTA and America’s Economic Focus
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1.0Blog Neglect
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6.4Questions I Ask Myself Daily
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10.0No Excuses, Just Do It
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1.0Finding Co-Founders
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10.0Facebook on Rails
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1.0More Posts Soon
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6.0Facebook Gifts and The Economy of Abundance
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1.0Why Twitter Works
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6.0Networking Is About Relationships
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1.0Wouldn’t it be great…
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7.0Startups and “The Curse of Knowledge”
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5.1Passion
Wednesday March 12th, 2008
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From Start Things, 6 months ago,
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From Start Things, 6 months ago,
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Tuesday February 19th, 2008
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NAFTA and America’s Economic Focus
From Start Things, 7 months ago,
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You can find studies that either prove or disprove NAFTA’s success depending on how you measure, so I guess it is hard to tell who to believe. I’m not intimately familiar with all the details of NAFTA, so I can’t say if its all good. It certainly is possible that parts of it need to [...]
Friday January 25th, 2008
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Blog Neglect
From Start Things, 8 months ago,
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I’m in the midst of getting a new startup off the ground, and since “most valuable things are pretty hard” (although “everything really hard is not necessarily valuable” - Max Levchin) I’m pretty busy. If you’re interested in what’s going on I suggest you check out my new tumblelog, thats where I’m posting random clips [...]
Saturday December 1st, 2007
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Questions I Ask Myself Daily
From Start Things, 10 months ago,
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Here is a short list of things I ask myself daily. I have found this immensely helpful, it helps me stay focused and on track. I keep the list in my wallet (in bold).
Today Did You …
- Sleep less than 7 hours
I’ve found oversleeping is one of the biggest killers of productivity
- Read 1 hour
I [...]
Sunday July 22nd, 2007
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No Excuses, Just Do It
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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The feeling of starting a company full time is difficult to define, your feelings from day to day, hour to hour run the gamut from excitement to despair, certainty to anxiety, gloom to happiness. I think that there is no better advice than if you are thinking about starting something, you should just do it. [...]
Saturday June 23rd, 2007
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Finding Co-Founders
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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I have heard a lot of discussion lately among the young entrepreneur/techie crowd (Mostly on news.ycombinator.com) about the difficulty of finding a co-founder, but is finding skilled and like-minded people really that hard to do? I would argue that it comes down to how good you are at networking. Networking is all about relationships and [...]
Monday May 28th, 2007
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Facebook on Rails
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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This is the beginnings of a plugin I may put together to help others integrate Facebook into their Rails apps. Much of the code is borrowed from Luke Shepherd’s examples and slightly modified and repackaged. It is cleaner (and more Ruby-like) than having all those Facebook specific methods scattered around your application controller. You can [...]
Monday April 23rd, 2007
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More Posts Soon
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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I’m focusing on graduating right now (May 6th), I have a lot of work to wrap up in this last week and a half. It’s been a while since I’ve posted and it will likely be another two weeks before I do again, but I have some good stuff I am working up, so stay [...]
Monday March 26th, 2007
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Facebook Gifts and The Economy of Abundance
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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There is an idea that has been popping up a lot lately (Mostly in conjunction with Chris Anderson’s book The Long Tail) called the “economy of abundance.” Its the idea that in a digital age when the cost of production nears zero that scarcity (upon which classical economics is based) disappears. This creates some very [...]
Saturday March 17th, 2007
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Why Twitter Works
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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I finally signed up for Twitter yesterday, its addictive, and it made me think a lot about why it has become popular so quickly, I think there are three big things.
1. Its mindless. “What are you doing?” Twitter doesn’t make its users think hard to interact.
2. Its ubiquitous. Easily available everywhere: IM, Mobile, Web
3. Barrier [...]
Monday March 5th, 2007
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Networking Is About Relationships
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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LinkedIn claims to let you “stay in touch with your network”, but what does that mean? If keeping lists of names and numbers is staying in touch with your network I’d say most people do an excellent job, but lists of names and numbers are meaningless. Valuable personal networks are built on meaningful relationships. You [...]
Thursday February 15th, 2007
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Wouldn’t it be great…
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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I came across this video of Steve Jobs yesterday, its a sort of tribute to his most used phrases in his keynotes. What I found most fascinating was the second to last one, “Wouldn’t it be great…” Apple has embraced this to great success. How can your business make people’s “wouldn’t it be great if…” [...]
Wednesday February 7th, 2007
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Startups and “The Curse of Knowledge”
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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I read Made to Stick last week, an excellent new book by Chip and Dan Heath about why some ideas stick and others do not. There were a lot of great takeaways on a practical level of how to make ideas stickier but one larger concept really stuck out. It is a recurring theme they [...]
Monday February 5th, 2007
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Passion
From Start Things, 1 year ago,
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“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion” ~Hegel
Go after what you want with everything you have and you will be more likely to achieve it. Don’t be ashamed about wanting to be the best. This is not the same as being arrogant. Arrogant people think they are the best but don’t put [...]