July 2010
4 posts
What The Combine technology conference has to... →
Bloomington, Indiana will be hosting the inaugural year of The Combine from September 9th through 12th. You might expect that the first year for this type of event would struggle to draw much in the…
Let's all rally around corporate hatred! →
betsytrotzke:
Listened to NPR’s Morning Edition this morning. There was an an interesting interview with Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway who recently wrote about the world’s collective hatred for BP. She illustrated that our collective hatred for corporations and their leaders is a relatively recent phenomenon that can be attributed to four factors:
Emotional hangover from the credit...
June 2010
5 posts
May 2010
2 posts
How Venture Capitalists are Using Social Media for... →
April 2010
5 posts
Arin: I'm pregnant.
Ben: Oh. My. God.
Ben: What order are we going to show it the Star Wars films?
March 2010
9 posts
I was inspired by someone at Microsoft to write the following:
As you may recall, I mentioned over coffee that I felt there may be a disconnect between the corporate vision and some of the deliverables and action items on our current agenda. Can we get together for a pre-meeting with some key enablers and download on how we can leverage any objections into value adds? I’m thinking if we go...
February 2010
5 posts
This might as well be an open letter to Steve Jobs from Adobe.
We give it two solid thumbs up for having a well thought out, and we must say...
– Proposable, A Web App That Aims to Transform Sales Proposals (And the latest SproutBox Sprout - If you missed it, check out the TechCrunch coverage here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/proposable/)
January 2010
9 posts
Interview with Proposable Founder James Kappen on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
– Albert Einstein (via jnunemaker)
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after...
– You can always do less - (37signals)
M: That guy at the bar looks like a young Trotzke.
C: Trotzke? You mean Trotzke Trotzke?
M: Yeah Mike Trotzke, who else would I mean? No, I'm talking about Joe Hitler.
Aren’t you oversimplifying this?
Yes. That’s the whole point.
– From the Steve Krug’s new book, Rocket Surgery Made Easy (via 37signals)
December 2009
5 posts
Today is the last day to Apply at SproutBox! Get on it. SproutBox - How does it work?
November 2009
10 posts
My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s...
– Joe Hewitt from Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny
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3 years ago, Chinese calendar year of the cow… Mad Cow disease. 2 years...
– from FARK.com
Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at George. Jack is married, but George is not. Is a married person looking at an unmarried person?
A) Yes.
B) No.
C) Cannot be determined.
See if you got it right: Are You a Cognitive Miser?