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- November 4, 2014
Life Lessons from a 90 Year Old
1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good. 2. When in doubt, just take the next small step. 3. Life is too short – enjoy it.. 4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will. 5. Pay off your credit cards every month. 6. You don’t have […]
- September 20, 2014
Things I Learn from the Internet – 10
Note: Things I Learn from the Internet is a series of post containing snippets of wisdom collected from stuff I read on the WWW which do not warrant a post in itself. Peek: a user testing tool: order a test, a real person test your site, result sent to you in a video. (nice website […]
- July 30, 2014
The Technology – A Talk by Paul Buchheit
Great talk by Paul Buchheit, creator and lead developer of Gmail. We often sweat life’s big decisions, but it’s the little decisions that matter the most — the ones we make thousands of times a day, often without even realizing it. The big decisions are the inevitable result of those small decisions. They steered the […]
- July 9, 2014
Back to Basics
At a certain point in the startup journey, a founder might pause and ask him/herself this question: “What a minute. Am I doing the right thing?” It is so easy to jump right into the process of building an MVP without properly validating the need for the solution. In the heat of the moment when […]
- June 15, 2014
Turn Detroit into Drone Valley
Very interesting article by the ever so brilliant Mark Andreessen on how best to address the problem we have with cloning silicon valley. We’re either going top-down by focusing primarily on infrastructure—plunking down an office park next to a university—or bottom-up by focusing on just the networks. None of these efforts successfully pursue both paths […]
- April 22, 2014
How to Get More People to Read Your Content
The power of storytelling: Your valuable content is your vitamin (useful, informative, the benefit that it delivers). Vitamins might be what we need, but candies are what we want. Successful content needs both vitamin and candies (gummy vitamins). The vitamin part is your value. That’s the problem that your post solves, or the benefit that […]
- April 15, 2014
Indie Phone
Besides Blackphone, Fairphone, we now have Indie Phone, a phone where people own the tool and data. I heard Aral Balkan speak at Drupal Con in Prague a few years ago and he was brilliant. There are two types of entrepreneur, the visionaire and the builder. Aral is definitely the former. My favourite quote from […]
- March 7, 2014
Desire
Interesting TED talk about The Secret of Desire in a Long-Term Relationship Marriage was an economic institution in which you were given a partnership for life in terms of children and social status and succession and companionship. But now we want our partner to still give us all these things, but in addition I want […]
- March 5, 2014
The Indian Sanitary Pad Revolution
This story is so inspiring! A school dropout from a poor family in southern India has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap sanitary pads. His wife left him, people in his village scorned him, and then his own mother left him. […]
- March 4, 2014
How to Get People to Do Stuff
Basically understanding the psychology of what motivated people to take action. Some interesting bits: If you use nouns when making a request, rather than verbs – for example: “Be a donor” versus “Donate now” – it results in more people taking action. That’s because nouns invoke group identity. (people want to feel they belong) Use […]
- February 22, 2014
Reach for the Moon
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are […]
- February 19, 2014
Thirty One
The past year has been a steady stream of incremental changes. Like hot lava preparing for rupture, the murmuring bubbles are a premonition of what is to come. You seem to have come to terms with the demise of your carefree youth, and gotten a stronger hold of your insecurities. Good for you. But try […]