tarnoff: Mark Twain’s almost-history as a drug lord. In 1856, a twenty-one-year-old Mark Twain was stranded in Keokuk, Iowa, working for his brother’s printing office, bored to death by the small town’s soporific pace. Restless, he needed a change. He started reading about the Amazon River, and soon cooked up a scheme to sail to Brazil. In August, he wrote to his younger brother Henry about his plans. Fifty-four years later, he reminisced about the […]
Author: Kanyi
Fascinating stuff.
Audacity of gaws
Whitney Museum of American Art: Whitney Stories
artprize: Cool! “Whitney Stories is an interactive magazine designed to provide a space for readers to engage with the multiple histories and narratives that make the Whitney a compelling place to visit—in the galleries or online. Our first issue, “Whitney of the Future,” offers a look at events surrounding the May 2011 groundbreaking on our new building in downtown Manhattan, designed by architect Renzo Piano and opening to the public in 2015. Future issues of Whitney Stories will […]
I Eat Ewoks: What Netflix Isn’t Saying
ahknight: Netflix jacked their rates for Instant Watch + DVD delivery and gave a lame-ass excuse for it. It was calculated to be lame, however, because if they used the real reason for it prices might go even higher. The Internet’s memory is short so let’s go back a week ago to when Netflix lost the Sony… Spot on. I Eat Ewoks: What Netflix Isn’t Saying
The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself
This is an extremely well-written article, and makes me both inspired and a little guilty for getting caught up in the same mentality. “At a BBQ last week with a group of Y Combinator graduates, the conversation went predictably back and fourth, sounding something like this: What batch were you in? How many times did you pivot? How much did you raise? From who? How many users have you got now? What’s your growth rate? Who’s […]
Well, we don’t think a billion dollars is all that cool either. You know what’s really cool? Making a hundred year company. The Evernote guys. You don’t hear that very often.
robgo.org: Some Thoughts on Hiring Technical Co-Founders
robgo: I reblogged an awesome post last week about how non-technical founders need to step thinking about “finding” a technical co-founder and “earning” a technical co-founder. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and talking to Jason Jacobs at RunKeeper this afternoon, I realized that there is… nice. robgo.org: Some Thoughts on Hiring Technical Co-Founders
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