February 2011
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Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? →
Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer.
“Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail,” he said. “That’s your whole story right there. Hell, you don’t even have to write the rest of it. Just write that.”
January 2011
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November 2010
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October 2010
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information as it evolves →
thegongshow:
Naval Ravikant wrote a great (and concise!) post on a trend in popular web services of taking data that was previously private and making it public. I totally agree with this observation, and want to add to his post. From Naval’s post:
All sorts of businesses are being built by violating…
April 2010
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March 2010
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Courtney Bolton / ©BOE.: ...blown away by OSx... →
Wow - this is some phenomenal level of attributes that you can search by - seems like the next step is a souped up search engine for the mac!
Apple Snow Leopard, 10.6.2. These search attribute options are outrageous! I can search by key signature? loop descriptors? the version of the encoding software used? (really- what kind of information does Apple think its consumer-facing brand is...
February 2010
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Great quote on life in start-ups
Amanda is one of the bloggers/tumblr’s that I am beginning to follow regularly cos she has really interesting useful tid bits of info. Enjoy!
amandapey:
“running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly…but working for a large company is like being waterboarded”
— Paul Graham (founder, YCombinator), June 2009 Inc. Magazine article
January 2010
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“Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had...”
– Douglas Adams (via cocknbull)
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November 2009
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“Every person has a circle of influence and circle of worry; focus your efforts...”
– Co-worker