bijan: A few months ago I wrote down some thoughts about failure, our fear of failure and our ability (inabilty) to embrace it. The other day I was talking to a founder in our portfolio. They made a mistake inside of their orgnazation and everyone knew it. I was processing this issue with the founder… +1 bijan sabet: Does your company culture allow mistakes
This is a book review of Zadie Smith’s collection of essays, ‘Changing My Mind", and I have yet to read the essays, so I can’t comment on them, but I want so bad to defend Zadie. The line “each man must be true to his selves, plural” really stuck out to me. I’d love to hear more about that one, ZS. On the to-do list! Other Voices, Other Selves
jayparkinsonmd: Doctors at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto, Canada have taken interactive gaming to the next level when they hooked up a Kinect console to their medical imaging computer. Now when in the operating room, doctors can have direct access to MRI scans, without having to disinfect, leave the operating room, consult the scans, and then scrub back in. This hack allows them to virtually manipulate the scans and retrieve the necessary information by pulling it […]
Just do it, Libya edition.
At the moment are Andrew Sullivan, for his politics, Paul Graham, Mark Suster, and Fred Wilson for their wisdom about start-ups and venture capital (in that order), and Zadie Smith for her effervescent (if at times wrenching) essays. I don’t have time – well, patience – for novels anymore. I’m about to go on spring break, and I plan on reading zero books, and getting through two software development kits. That isn’t a happy turn […]
Ethan Zuckerman is a leading thinker on the internet based at Harvard University. His blog, entitled My Heart’s in Accra, speaks to his long association with Africa. He arrived in Ghana from New England in 1993, on a Fulbright scholarship, to learn African drumming. Every few weeks he would wander down to the central post office in Accra and place a phone call to his future wife in the United States. The line was indistinct […]
arig: NYTimes.com: Save Money on Digital by Buying Print? The New York Times just announced their new digital pricing for subscription access to its online and mobile content. I completely support paying for content, but did you know that you’ll pay less money for the digital editions of The New York Times if you also subscribe to their weekend print edition? Here’s the math: – NYT All Digital Access (Online, Mobile, Tablet): $35/month – NYT […]
My roommate just reminded me of the legend that Ernest Hemingway was once part of a bet that he couldn’t write a six word story. He came up with “For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” His (roommate’s – not Hemingway’s) college buddy actually wrote an entire New Yorker article in only six words, which was a plum delight to read. At any rate, this naturally prompted the inevitable gamesmanship and we spent a few minutes […]
“Think of the difference between George H W Bush in Kuwait and George W Bush in Iraq. Much of the right still longs for the swagger of the latter. The more discerning ones know better.” This is a sober and well-presented analysis of the conservative mentality in the face of a nation being eclipsed by the future. I have to admit that I am becoming more of an Edmund Burkian every day. I love BHO, […]
aconversationoncool: “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” ~Pablo Neruda Brigitte Bardot & Sacha Distel Cosign.
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