Happy Birthday, Cassius Clay.
Author: Kanyi
the lawyer/startup relationship is so broken. if lawyers would switch to a per-project fee instead of hourly rates i think everyone would be much better aligned and much happier. sam altman
A Rainbow At Its Peak
Very cool. parislemon: Horace Dediu presents yet another amazing way to look at the rapidly evolving computer industry (here are Dediu’s other fascinating looks of the past few days). The PC looks like a rainbow at its peak. The Macintosh looks like a roller coaster with a misleading small first hill that tricks riders. Android, iPhone, and iPad look like fireworks just taking off…
Nina Simone – Why (The King of Love Is Dead) Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King’s death. – NPR (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled. http://www.inc.com/eric-schurenberg/the-best-definition-of-entepreneurship.html
Branding In Mind
Cool article. We make brand choices subconsciously, algorithmically, and fast (we’re talking milliseconds). And although we can veto decisions once they enter our conscious awareness, consciousness is not the driver of our choices. We’re not irrational – our brain seeks to satisfy our goals and emotional needs in the best possible way, maximizing reward and minimizing energy, costs, efforts, and risks – but it’s from the subconscious that we make brand-influenced decisions.
Comparing Apples to Apples.
Wow. This is one heck of an advert. Well done, LG. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Chichén Itzá
I had the great fortune this Christmas of visiting Chichén Itzá in Mexico. For those of you who don’t know, it is a pre-Colombian, post-Christ Mayan civilization in the heart of the Yucatán jungle. I learned marvellous things over the course of this trip. First of all, we went to a Cenote, which is Yucatec Mayan for a “well” or a grotto. The one we went to, Suytun Cenote, has a freshwater well at the […]
Rolex: The P&B Vintage Buying Guide “For a lot of guys, picking out a vintage watch begins and ends with a single brand: Rolex. This isn’t for lack of worthy alternatives—there are plenty, and we’ll cover them all in this series—but because there are just so many iconic Rolex models, each groundbreaking in its own way. From the original waterproof Oyster to the Explorer that accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary up Mount Everest in 1953, to […]
Musings 