cantgohomeagain: Been meaning to write about this for a while, but kept putting it off until Tim Tebow of all people threw this question in my face again. (Insert Tebow throwing accuracy joke here.) The question is: why is there a stigma in this country about being a good person? In this country, we don’t really love or worship good people. What we love is redemption: the bad street kid who cleaned up his act. […]
There is a reason why we are so committed to social media at The Times and that reason rests with our audience. We have an incredibly enlightened, intelligent and sophisticated group of users who are highly engaged with our products. Our efforts in social media are meant to tap in to the knowledge from that readership. We value what they can share with us and with other users. Arthur Sulzberger, Chairman of the New York […]
mediadesignelements: A while back I did a post on Irina Werning and her photo project entitled back to the future. Well she’s back at it again and the work is nonetheless amazing. You can check out the rest of her work here. So, so tight.
aconversationoncool: Ali & X.
5 pitfalls for recent grads starting a company I began working on Postabon, a bootstrapped start-up, after I graduated from Harvard Business School last June. My co-founders and I slept on lots of couches, worked from coffee shops, and invested in a minimum viable product. We recently… This applies far beyond MBAs. Innovators, Imitators and Idiots: Why MBAs Fail at Entrepreneurship
We systematically found 230 significant luck events across the history of our study’s subjects. We considered good luck, bad luck, the timing of luck and the size of “luck spikes.” Adding up the evidence, we found that the 10X cases weren’t generally “luckier” than the comparison cases. (We compared the 10X companies with a control group of companies that failed to become great in the same extreme environments.) The 10X cases and the control group […]
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Algorithmic Font Generation. Pretty radical. Read more here.
Michael Arrington and Vivek Wadhwa had a funny (and strangely charged, though that’s mostly because Arrington got angry-defensive reeeeal quick) debate about minorities (non-Asian) and women, and how there are disproportionately fewer of both categories in high tech entrepreneurship. They are arguing over whether or not there is bias in funding opportunities, which I think is an interesting debate, but the wrong one. The reason there are fewer black people in tech, as a black […]
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