Facebook has become pure noise. It is pure noise partially because I was an inexperienced social media user when I first started using it. I added whomever to my friend list. Now I get random political messages (from both sides), people promoting their businesses, and information that is generally worthless to me. The reason I …
Author Archives: xrd
Hungarian hiring
This post generated an enormous amount of interest. This is why I don’t give you a job (Hacker News discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3436244). Fascinating. There are some great comments. The responses boil down into two perspectives. One, that the government is a giant leech preventing entrepreneurs from succeeding, through regulation which makes it impossible to fire people and …
Adaptable to transformable: whenever it gets easier, it then immediately gets harder
I feel like we have hit a wonderful spot in the world of entrepreneurship in the software world. It is so trivial to build incredibly powerful apps with a but few lines of code. You can prototype an idea, get it in front of users in a matter of weeks, and deploy it into the …
I’m giving you nothing for Christmas
A great friend forwarded me this. I wanted to share: I got you nothing this year! I mean it. You and I think alike. We both hate the cluttered lives we have. No wonder people are stressed all the time. We live in an age of “affluenza,” too much stuff, stuff that is killing us. Our …
What Siri and Cluzee really can help me with.
Looks like Android now has a Siri clone. http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/29/siris-first-real-competition-hits-android-phones-today-video/ This is interesting but it does not solve the really big problem. I don’t have a problem organizing my todo list. Or, putting more things on there. Or, reminding myself that there are things on my todo list. What I have trouble with is knowing what to say …
To all the entrepreneurs outside of Silicon Valley, NY and Boston
The New York Times does a great job of covering the exciting businesses arising in the technology worlds of Silicon Valley, NY and Boston. There is a lot of money there, and I do think that many of the most brilliant people in the world gravitate to those areas to be a part of something …
By the Way, What Have You Done That’s So Great? — LAUNCH -
http://www.launch.is/blog/by-the-way-what-have-you-done-thats-so-great.html The best Steve Jobs obituary so far.
Steve Jobs made it personal
This morning as my fiance left, and the dawn was breaking here in coastal Georgia, I got into the shower, tears welling up as I kept coming back to the fact that Steve Jobs has left this earth. How silly is that? I never met him. But, Jobs was different. He made the things important to me …
The convergence of spirituality and science
We are coming to a point where we must recognize the convergence of spirituality and science. This might shock a lot those who identify as atheists, and it might shock people who identify as republicans, democrats, libertarians. It might shock anyone who identifies with a group as long as that group has a shared villain. …