I’m going to like this.
10/05/2011. Respect. RIP Steve Jobs, Visionary.
RIP Steve.
Sick pic.
Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E.B. White
Words that don’t exist in the English language… My language has plenty of these as well.
Varsity Bookmarking: Who Svpply is competing with, sort of.
I thought it’d be interesting to share some thoughts about the competitive landscape we’re in.
This topic is of particular interest to me personally because when we launched Svpply, there was nothing else like it out there. When we launched Svpply, there were no shopping services that encouraged…
Cities And Ambition
Another excellent Paul Graham essay. It was written in May 2008, and the financial crisis (among other things) did a tremendous amount to change the calculus that he describes, but the themes are still quite interesting.
A city speaks to you mostly by accident—in things you see through windows, in conversations you overhear. It’s not something you have to seek out, but something you can’t turn off. One of the occupational hazards of living in Cambridge is overhearing the conversations of people who use interrogative intonation in declarative sentences. But on average I’ll take Cambridge conversations over New York or Silicon Valley ones.
Musings 