February 2012
1 post
Work on a Mac? Save time (and your eyes) with...
I get asked a lot about all the stuff in my menu bar. Here are some of the small utilities that make life easier throughout the day.
Caffeine: keep your monitor from going into sleep or screensaver mode. Essential when projecting.
CloudApp: drag anything (link, file, etc.) and it will upload, create a short URL, and add it to your clipboard. Has a toggle for doing that flow for any screenshot...
January 2012
1 post
MURK AVENUE: I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release…
December 2011
1 post
The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible -... →
Nice approach to product and UI development. (And probably good for plain-old websites, too.)
November 2011
4 posts
Michael Lewis on the King of Human Error |... →
Money read
Stan Richards's Unique Management Style →
8:30am, shirt and tie required.
Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just... →
In addition to the curriculum changes mentioned, why don’t universities encourage students to audit courses?
October 2011
4 posts
Hacked! - Magazine - The Atlantic →
The half step is extremely important, but I count it only as a half because it applies specifically to users of Gmail rather than other online systems. Here it is: if you use Gmail, please use Google’s new “two-step verification” system. In practice this means that to log into your account from any place other than your own computer, you have to enter an additional code, from Google, shown on your...
My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine –... →
Great story
The True Cost of Commuting | Mr. Money Mustache →
Interesting stuff. I miss having a car, but I sure don’t miss paying for one.
September 2011
8 posts
5 tags
What planes are overhead?
wolframalpha:
What’s that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Yup, it’s a plane, and it is currently 31,100 feet high and traveling to St. Louis from Chicago. Simply enter “planes overhead”, and Wolfram|Alpha will provide a list of flights overhead based on your current geoIP location.
You can also click on specific flights to learn more information, such as departure airport,...
How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a... →
Porsche’s move took three years of careful maneuvering. It was darkly brilliant, a wealth transfer ingeniously conceived like few we’ve ever seen. Betting the right way, Porsche roiled the financial markets and took the hedge funds for a fortune.
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First sentence of a video about a marketing...
“… cloud-based revenue performance management solutions transform how marketing and sales teams of all sizes work together to close the right deals faster and increase revenue growth.”
Why.
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Rhythm, Rhyme, Results: Featured Teacher : Amanda... →
educationalrap:
Name: Amanda Kruppenbacher School: GSF International School/Good Shephards Fold Orphanage in Jinja, Uganda Subjects: 2011-2012 teaching 4th and 6th grades
How are you using educationalrap.com and/or rrr.fm in the classroom?
Last school year I worked hard to include different…
Profile of a teacher in Uganda using RRR with students. Yes!
Marketing Insanity
Earlier today I dropped this toot about context switching and marketing. I want to elaborate on this a tad, given the reputation we marketers have earned for acting out of our minds.
Marketing requires constant reporting on all activity; after all: we’re signing contracts and actively spending money, and we’d better have something to show for it. To accompany this, we have clear...
Google Correlate →
Fun!
August 2011
6 posts
The Shapes of CSS →
Um… [via]
Get a coffee, give a coffee - Jonathan's Card →
Step 1: Put the picture of his Starbucks card on your phone
Step 2: Buy a coffee
[via]
“identify and destroy small-return bullshit;
shut off anything that’s noisier...”
– Better - Merlin Mann
The Definitive Guide To Website Authentication -... →
Whoa.
“In 2001, Gardner attended walk-on tryouts for the baseball team at the College...”
– Brett Gardner
That’s how you do it.
“I keep sensing some serious hurt feelings from the older-media side — “Why would...”
– Facebook and the Epiphanator: An End to Endings? — Daily Intel
July 2011
7 posts
1 tag
Real Cheap Eats NYC - 123 Cheap Eats for $10 or... →
My friend James Boo has launched a new site that, “unlike guides by NYMag and Time Out, is actually cheap and should work well on your mobile phone.”
Can’t wait to try these.
“She described a poster on the wall at Facebook: “What would you do if you...”
– Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker
Excellent article
“Indeed, the burger’s charred exterior contained the sort of flavor notes one...”
– The Magician of Meat
WANT
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“It takes time to build companies. It takes time to learn from customers. It...”
– Making Ideas Work | Savage Thoughts
June 2011
5 posts
“Learn by connections, not by memorization.
Learn things deeply the first time,...”
– Study Hacks » Blog Archive » Anatomy of an A+: A Look Inside the Process of One of the World’s Most Efficient Studiers
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“Sometimes you need to break some eggs to get things done so if that’s what it...”
– What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI | Both Sides of the Table
“Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, or Apple’s Steve Jobs — all college dropouts...”
– Actually, College Is Very Much Worth It - TIME
“The ultimate irony in all of this is that if we stop giving the content...”
– “Big Content” Is Strangling American Innovation - James Allworth - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review
May 2011
7 posts
“The study found that women were least attracted to smiling, happy men,...”
– Happy guys finish last, says new study on sexual attractiveness
Brooding ftw.
“In many elevators, the Door Close button works only when switched to a special...”
– The Most Awkward Meeting: The Office Elevator - WSJ.com
data.insights.ideas: In New York: The Hipster... →
scoopst:
Welcome to Manhattan, hipster. Venturing outside your Williamsburg art loft may be scary, we understand, but fear not. IN is here to provide the comprehensive guide to navigating New York City’s central island so that you needn’t worry about accidentally finding yourself amidst…
How I recovered from a failed hard drive
The hard drive on my work laptop failed last to boot last week after encountering a bunch of corrupted files. After trying all the options for fixing it myself—solutions like “reset the PRAM”—I took it to our sysadmin and asked him to completely wipe the hard drive rather than try to fix the files and risk dragging out a repair.
Here’s why I was so confident about...
“Whenever you find yourself starting a sentence with, “I don’t want...”
– The Bottom Feeder: The Final Answer For What To Do To Prevent Piracy
Solid advice on selling digital stuff.
April 2011
7 posts
2 tags
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BRYCE DOT VC: Opportunity in Rejection →
brycedotvc:
Over my break last week I decided to crack the spine on a book that I’ve been meaning to read for some time now- Jay Z’s DECODED. Even though my own history with hip hop ended just before he came on the scene (post ‘93 hip hop lost a lot of appeal to me) I’ve long admired his story which can be…
8tracks Brings Its Mix Tapes (And Curated Music... →
gordonc:
This is the first project that I’ve worked on that is in regular use on my iPhone homescreen.
This little app has the longest development time of any project I’ve worked on (almost 2 years.) It’s been an amazing learning experience to work with DP, Rich, Remi, Kate and the rest of team 8tracks to figure out how launch (what we consider) the best free mobile streaming music experience...
