A. A low voltage stun gun. Apply directly to perpetrator's head.
Q. What is the best way to stop people from spelling like morons online?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
The most profound thing I've learnt this last week.
"Leaders must be editors*".
A simple, simple statement. And a very important lesson. That the primary job of leaders is to let the people around them ideate/think/dream/build/work on their own. To let them seek perfection, or die trying, if they so wish. To let them stumble, fall, and pick themselves up, all on their own. To let them write the story the way they see fit, the way they see it play out in their mind's eye.
The leader holds the line.
The leader keeps it all together.
But the leader doesn't write the stories.
Leaders must be editors.
That's one hell of a tough lesson to learn.
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*Paraphrasing Jack Dorsey, at an internal meeting at Square. [Watch Video]
A simple, simple statement. And a very important lesson. That the primary job of leaders is to let the people around them ideate/think/dream/build/work on their own. To let them seek perfection, or die trying, if they so wish. To let them stumble, fall, and pick themselves up, all on their own. To let them write the story the way they see fit, the way they see it play out in their mind's eye.
The leader holds the line.
The leader keeps it all together.
But the leader doesn't write the stories.
Leaders must be editors.
That's one hell of a tough lesson to learn.
____
*Paraphrasing Jack Dorsey, at an internal meeting at Square. [Watch Video]
Monday, September 20, 2010
Just manic enough?
Just Manic Enough: Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs
David Segal
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/business/19entre.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=all
________________________________________________________________________Imagine you are a venture capitalist. One day a man comes to you and says, "I want to build the game layer on top of the world."
You don't know what "the game layer" is, let alone whether it should be built atop the world. But he has a passionate speech about a business plan, conceived when he was a college freshman, that he says will change the planet — making it more entertaining, more engaging, and giving humans a new way to interact with businesses and one another.
If you give him $750,000, he says, you can have a stake in what he believes will be a $1-billion-a-year company.
Interested? Before you answer, consider that the man displays many of the symptoms of a person having what psychologists call a hypomanic episode. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual — the occupation's bible of mental disorders — these symptoms include grandiosity, an elevated and expansive mood, racing thoughts and little need for sleep.
"Elevated" hardly describes this guy. To keep the pace of his thoughts and conversation at manageable levels, he runs on a track every morning until he literally collapses. He can work 96 hours in a row. He plans to live in his office, crashing in a sleeping bag. He describes anything that distracts him and his future colleagues, even for minutes, as "evil."
He is 21 years old.
So, what do you give this guy — a big check or the phone number of a really good shrink? If he is Seth Priebatsch and you are Highland Capital Partners, a venture capital firm in Lexington, Mass., the answer is a big check.
But this thought exercise hints at a truth: a thin line separates the temperament of a promising entrepreneur from a person who could use, as they say in psychiatry, a little help. Academics and hiring consultants say that many successful entrepreneurs have qualities and quirks that, if poured into their psyches in greater ratios, would qualify as full-on mental illness.
Which is not to suggest that entrepreneurs like Seth Priebatsch (pronounced PREE-batch) are crazy. It would be more accurate to describe them as just crazy enough.
"It's about degrees," says John D. Gartner, a psychologist and author of "The Hypomanic Edge." "If you're manic, you think you're Jesus. If you're hypomanic, you think you are God's gift to technology investing."
Saturday, July 31, 2010
[Funniness] Ahm English!
Here's something hilarious.
From thefrogman.me
Famous Movie Quotes as if written by a proper Englishman.
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"“We must acquire a larger vessel.”
- Jaws
“I’m growing impatient with these malevolent slithering reptiles on this bloody aircraft.”
- Snakes on a Plane
“Toodeloo you ghastly miscreant.”
- Die Hard 1,2,3,4
“Please remove your simian appendages from my person, you unwashed gorilla man-thing.”
- Planet of the Apes
“There is a herptile in my western footwear!”
- Toy Story
“I shall return.”
- Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
“I am now fully versed in the combat stylings of “Kung Fu.”
- The Matrix"
- Jaws
“I’m growing impatient with these malevolent slithering reptiles on this bloody aircraft.”
- Snakes on a Plane
“Toodeloo you ghastly miscreant.”
- Die Hard 1,2,3,4
“Please remove your simian appendages from my person, you unwashed gorilla man-thing.”
- Planet of the Apes
“There is a herptile in my western footwear!”
- Toy Story
“I shall return.”
- Every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie
“I am now fully versed in the combat stylings of “Kung Fu.”
- The Matrix"
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Read more: thefrogman.me - "thefrogumblelog"
Sunday, July 25, 2010
[tech] What's the deal with 3D TV?
Michael Gartenberg, "technology strategist" and author, writes "Entelligence", a column for Engadget. I don't agree with the man 9 out of 10 times, but this one, I say aye to. Read on.
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It's generally a bad idea to extrapolate larger consumer behavior from personal experience and say "if I like it, surely everyone else will as well." It's a mistake that happens all the time, but there's is one case where I will use my personal behavior to at least start the foundation for analysis -- when I don't want a new gadget or technology. Granted, sometimes I'm just not the target audience, but even then I'm usually able to remove myself from the process and say it might not be for me but others will love this. In the case of 3D TV, however, I think my lack of interest doesn't bode well for the market.
I'm surprised by figures, forecasts, predictions and prophecies all showing a rosy outlook for 3D TV beginning as early as this year, because I've seen most of the 3D offerings available and I have no plans to buy -- not now and not anytime soon. I should be a part of the core demographic for 3D: I like TV, movies and video games. I'm am early adopter. I have reasonable disposable income. I'm not afraid of betting on the wrong standard. And yet, I'm not buying. Here's why.
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It's generally a bad idea to extrapolate larger consumer behavior from personal experience and say "if I like it, surely everyone else will as well." It's a mistake that happens all the time, but there's is one case where I will use my personal behavior to at least start the foundation for analysis -- when I don't want a new gadget or technology. Granted, sometimes I'm just not the target audience, but even then I'm usually able to remove myself from the process and say it might not be for me but others will love this. In the case of 3D TV, however, I think my lack of interest doesn't bode well for the market.
I'm surprised by figures, forecasts, predictions and prophecies all showing a rosy outlook for 3D TV beginning as early as this year, because I've seen most of the 3D offerings available and I have no plans to buy -- not now and not anytime soon. I should be a part of the core demographic for 3D: I like TV, movies and video games. I'm am early adopter. I have reasonable disposable income. I'm not afraid of betting on the wrong standard. And yet, I'm not buying. Here's why.
[g33kness] Last weekend's timepassing.
This is what I did last weekend.
1. Taught myself PHP / yeah, all I needed to learn was #include stuff, so that was easy :p
2. Googled whatever I needed to know to setup mySQL, a simple database, and some tables
3. Got simpleviewer to work the way I wanted it to
I put these three things together, to finish what I'd promised a photographer friend a long time ago: his own photog website. Pop over to http://virag.in to check it out.
Do leave me a comment here :)
1. Taught myself PHP / yeah, all I needed to learn was #include stuff, so that was easy :p
2. Googled whatever I needed to know to setup mySQL, a simple database, and some tables
3. Got simpleviewer to work the way I wanted it to
I put these three things together, to finish what I'd promised a photographer friend a long time ago: his own photog website. Pop over to http://virag.in to check it out.
Do leave me a comment here :)
Friday, July 23, 2010
[Android] [Ads] Sucker punch!
The iPhone4's AntennaGate is old hat right now, and junta has discussed the signal bars issue to death. What is novel though, is every other company's response to Apple's "self created debacle" (as RIM's CEO put it).
Here's a fun one.
Press ad for the Samsung Android superphone, the Galaxy S.
Two thumbs up! :D
(via twitter)
Here's a fun one.
Press ad for the Samsung Android superphone, the Galaxy S.
Two thumbs up! :D
(via twitter)
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