September 29, 2007
How To Lead Your Life
I just invested 90 minutes in watching The last public lecture of Randy Pausch. Randy is a CMU professor who has done pioneering work in Human Computer Interaction, was a co-creator of ...
The Plural of Anecdote is Not Data
My long time friend and first business partner Dave Jilk sent me an email with the quote of the week in it – “The Plural of Anecdote is Not Data.” ...
VCs on WallStrip
My friends Paul Kedrosky and Fred Wilson both showed up on WallStrip interviews this week. Lindsey interviewed Paul and got to ask about why people punch him in the face and ...
September 27, 2007
Hubris and Critical Thinking
Tom Evslin has an outstanding post up today titled Causes of Global Warming – Are We Fooled By Hubris? Amy and I just finished watching Rome Season 2 and our ...
Development Tools for the Facebook Platform
Brilliant moves by Widgetbox and Dapper (I’m not an investor in either company.) Both of them have released “development tools for building Facebook apps.” Widgetbox’s App Accelerator helps you turn Widgetbox widgets ...
Joel’s Explanation of the Excel 100000 Bug
As usual, Joel Spolsky has an excellent explanation of the Excel 100000 bug. (Thanks Rick)
September 25, 2007
Want Your NAC to be Laid Back?
Network access control (or NAC as the security world calls it) has become a huge technology buzzword recently. Everyone in networking and security is screaming about NAC – with Cisco ...
Master Chief In Training Shows Up At Harvard
As an MIT grad I periodically acknowledge that there was a thing referred to as a university down the river from me. They have this statue of a dude named ...
Excel 100000 Bug
Software has bugs. Lots of them. I am a master bug finder (anyone that has had me bang on their stuff likely has at least one anecdote about this.)
Today’s ...
September 24, 2007
Sling Media Acquired by EchoStar
Today EchoStar announced that is has acquired Sling Media for $380 million in cash. My partner and 2007 travel buddy Ryan McIntyre is smiling tonight as he crawls into bed ...
VC’s and Lawyers Need To Think Simpler
I love a good rant and Dave McClure has a doozy up titled VC’s & Tech Lawyers: Innovate, Automate, Simplify. Several years ago when Jason and I wrote our Term Sheet ...
Art and Climate Change
While Amy and I were sitting in the San Francisco Airport reading the Sunday NY Times, we came across an article titled Looking for Inspiration in the Melting Ice. It ...
September 21, 2007
Parallel Universes
I’ve been in a few parallel universes recently and am noticing it happening more and more. I like parallel universes – it always smells like opportunity to me (plus I get ...
September 20, 2007
Subtitles
Those last two posts could have been subtitled “Vacation makes me verbose.” I guess limiting myself to 140 characters is what my Twitter account is for.
The Semantic Web Can Be Your Friend
Alex Iskold, the founder and creator of Adaptive Blue, has a long and helpful post up titled Semantic Web: Difficulties with the Classic Approach. I have a small investment in ...