November 2010
105 posts
“We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most important quality would be intelligence. That’s the myth in the Valley. And certainly you don’t want founders to be stupid. But as long as you’re over a certain threshold of intelligence, what matters most is determination. You’re going to hit a lot of obstacles. You can’t be the sort of person who gets demoralized easily.” - What We Look for...
“The reason you can expect to feel this is that what you do probably won’t work. Startups almost never get it right the first time. Much more commonly you launch something, and no one cares. Don’t assume when this happens that you’ve failed. That’s normal for startups. But don’t sit around doing nothing. Iterate.” - How Not to Die
Gary Arndt is the man behind Everything Everywhere, one of the most popular travel blogs in the world, and one of Time Magazine’s “Top 25 Best Blogs of 2010.” Since March 2007, Gary has been traveling around the globe, having visited more than 70 countries and territories, and gaining worldly wisdom in the process.
Today, I’ve asked him to share some of that wisdom.
Enter Gary
On March 13, 2007,...
October 2010
57 posts
“The reason you can expect to feel this is that what you do probably won’t...”
– How Not to Die
“We thought when we started Y Combinator that the most important quality would be...”
– What We Look for in Founders
WatchMirror FAIL - Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures
Oh man, mirrors are confusing! ROFL
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-17) →
The National (39)
Passion Pit (38)
The xx (30)
Mumford And Sons (24)
Frightened Rabbit (22)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Celebrating the release of Rails 3, the Ruby on Rails community raised almost $40,000 to give clean water to 1,800 people. Scott, the founder of charity:water, sent this thank you video to the community from the Central African Republic while waiting with the Bayaka people for the rain to clear.
La banda escocesa sigue promocionando su último trabajo discográfico The Winter Of Mixed Drinks y en ese plan acaba de anunciar un par de lanzamientos interesantes, además de estrenar el videoclip para The Loneliness & The Scream.
Precisamente la canción será editada como cuarto single del álbum, que tendrá como lado B un cover del tema Don’t Go Breaking My Heart, original de Elton John y...
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
Ask people what makes entrepreneurs successful and you’ll hear a familiar list of adjectives; agile, tenacious, resilient, opportunistic, etc.
What you don’t hear is that often they didn’t know any better.
It Can’t Be Done I was just rereading...
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Sooo two months ago, but this is really beautiful.
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LEGO Storage brick boxes? But of course! YES! Take toy storage in your living room to a new level. Made me smile.
(thank you Darren)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-10) →
Sigur Rós (44)
Mumford And Sons (41)
Hot Chip (23)
The Arcade Fire (17)
Iron & Wine (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
This is a project of Google, which has developed a self-driving car, using artificial-intelligence s..(Read…)
Traffic Bumps via Chartbeat
Last Saturday, we woke up to a surprising alert from Chartbeat, we had a new record for most active visitors on our site Yipit.
It turns out that CNN had run a two minute segment profiling Yipit. By Sunday, they had aired the segment four times and we easily had our best ever two-day stretch across all key metrics including user sign-ups.
Did we get it because we...
LEGO Storage brick boxes? But of course! YES! Take toy storage in your living room to a new level. Made me smile.
(thank you Darren)
how to install ruby debug for ruby 1.9.2 (the rvm... →
There are millions of songs on iTunes that have sold zero copies. Millions of blog posts that get zero visitors each day.
The long tail is real… given the ability, people create more variety. Given the choice, people seek out what’s just right for them to consume. But, and there’s a big but, there’s no guarantee that the ends of the long tail start producing revenue or...
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Switch me is a humble salt and pepper shaker which allows one to switch between salt and pepper at t..(Read…)
We’d like to welcome Hibernate to GitHub, and more importantly, Git! Migrating an old subversion repository is no small task. Hibernate is a suite of tools providing relational persistence for Java and .Net, with origins dating back to 2001. You can check out the Hibernate code in their organization.
Commenter supreme JLM noted in a comment on Monday that he was once ripped off of a $2mm payday by a person he worked for. He took the hit, went away for a month, came back and started working for himself. Its an inspiring story from an inspiring guy. And by the way, the person who screwed JLM out of his money went broke. That story reminded me that there are takers and makers in this world....
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Film made by Devin Graham (Directed, DP, Edited) Also on camera I had Jace Leroy, Kristen Hillier, a..(Read…)
back to the future with rspec stub! →
Are there any recruiters working in technology who get it? Anyone putting in just a minimum of effort to appear even half-way competent? If so, they need to speak up. The reputation of their profession is being soiled by completely clueless hacks. Here’s a pitch I just got this morning: Dave – My name is Kelly ** and I am reaching out to you to see if you would be looking to make a career move. I...
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