November 2011
1 post
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
– Ben Franklin
October 2011
4 posts
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at...
– A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs | www.nytimes.com | Readability
You escape the madness by seeing it as a thing you do, not a thing you make....
– The one shot world – a case for career entrepreneurship and casual experimentation | blog.thestartuptoolkit.com | Readability
Writer’s block arrived once quality was attributed to inspiration.
– Trollope on shipping – The Startup Toolkit Blog
First, delighting customers doesn’t build loyalty; reducing their effort—the...
– Stop Trying to Delight Your Customers - Harvard Business Review
September 2011
1 post
A restaurants best investment will always be the head chef.
– Gordon Ramsay
July 2011
1 post
One of Graphite’s greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses is the fact...
– The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Graphite
June 2011
3 posts
Believe that not much happens of any significance when we’re in our comfort...
– Bob Parsons: A New Billionaire’s 10 Rules for Success - The Wealth Report - WSJ
Most people use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamp post, more for support...
– Mark Twain
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be...
– Attributed to Albert Einstein but it may have just been a sign hanging on his wall at Princeton.
May 2011
7 posts
The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more...
– The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no...
– Benjamin Elijah Mays
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool that I’ve ever...
– Steve Jobs
Don’t be small because you can’t figure out how to get big. Consider being small...
– Seth’s Blog: Economies of small
The brilliance of Facebook management is encouraging everyone to take...
– Joe Hewitt
Simple systems are harder to design, because you have to decide what to discard,...
– Metamarkets Blog » Blog Archive » Four Lessons for Building A Petabyte Data Platform
Lesson: Humans love stories. Tell yours on your website. Make it personal.
– Six Startup Marketing Lessons in Six Photos | Software by Rob
April 2011
8 posts
It’s such a funny thing. Threats—like hurricanes and rectal exams—are only scary...
– Cranking
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It...
– Albert Einstein
The world is full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare...
– How to Win Friends and Influence People
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I...
– Charles Schwabb
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of...
– How to Win Friends and Influence People
The most important quality in a startup founder is determination. Not...
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
What you should fear, as a startup, is not the established players, but other...
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
As with exercise, improvements beget improvements. If you run every day,...
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
March 2011
5 posts
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with...
– Albert Einstein
I am willing to bet there is a billion lines of code out there right now which...
– The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know.
– The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
Malfunction elegantly? Yes. All human engineered products will malfunction, it...
– OmniTI ~ On the Engineering of SaaS
Making it robust and repeatable is far less important than making it quick and...
– OmniTI ~ On the Engineering of SaaS
February 2011
4 posts
Just some empirical evidence that seeking depth leads to breadth as a...
– The Greatest Developer Fallacy Or The Wisest Words You’ll Ever Hear?
Creativity. Curiosity. Resilience to distraction. Patience with others.
– How to Make Trillions of Dollars | Raptitude.com
Your goal should be to get first-time visitors to come back.
– The #1 Goal of Your Website | Software by Rob
Gregg says at $9.99 there was no frame of reference for the value. At $12 / year...
– Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99? | Both Sides of the Table
January 2011
1 post
Do one thing as best as you possibly can.
– Graham Wetzler: Why Dropbox Succeeded and Syncplicity Didn’t
December 2010
9 posts
The person paying for an item, not the seller’s internal overhead, desired...
– Pricing on Purpose
You cannot fully see anything new from an old place…. It is the leap, not...
– George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty
there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer
– Flaherty, found in Pricing on Purpose
…a group of people get together and exist as an institution that we call a...
– Amen! David Packard, found in Pricing on Purpose
We could partition by function too. The simplest case is read vs. write. Often...
– graceful degradation is your friend
Our customers don’t have to go through a manual process to install new software...
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/why-we-choose-html5-for-user.html
Our PS3 UI was written entirely using HTML5, on a custom build of Webkit ported...
– http://techblog.netflix.com/2010/12/why-we-choose-html5-for-user.html
When Jobs offered us the easy way out, we took it. Freedom is overrated,...
– The Men Who Stole the World -TimeFrames- Printout - TIME
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
– The Men Who Stole the World -TimeFrames- Printout - TIME
October 2010
3 posts
Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
– Caterina Fake
In the event of failures, which will this system sacrifice? Consistency or...
– You Can’t Sacrifice Partition Tolerance | codahale.com
No, these days even technical execution is mostly trivial (with a few exceptions...
– Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding | Software by Rob
September 2010
3 posts
The best way we’ve found to keep moving fast is to make lots of small...
– Facebook (2) | Scaling Facebook to 500 Million Users and Beyond
We haven’t funded a mere business plan since our founding three years ago....
– » Prospecting LOWERCASE capital
Entrepreneurs who are empowered by seasoned advisors, but free to frame...
– » Creed LOWERCASE capital