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Notes from 2012

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Dec 2012

Education is about inspiring a mind, not just filling a head.

Note to self, blues don't show up on projectors. Check your slides.

I love the feeling after writing a killer first sentence.

Dashboardly version 2 design is nearing completion!

Nov 2012

The more I learn about #RubyonRails the more I start to understand why CSS works.

#NerdRapperNames is the best thing I've ever seen trending on Twitter.

Whenever I'm stuck writing something I always read a few pages out of On Writing Well. Always does the trick.

Every successful piece of nonfiction should leave the reader with one provocative thought that he or she didn't have before.

The only rule of Facebook Hackathon - build whatever you want.

Oct 2012

It is entirely unacceptable that third-party candidates are excluded from presidential debates.

Just met a mysterious gentleman on walk to Merch Mart. Knew we were headed to 1871, knows people in tech in Irvine.

Sep 2012

Indecisiveness, regulation and incompetence is a hell of a combination.

Twitter should just charge developers for their API instead of running these terrible ads.

Wow, and I thought the finish to last nights game was crazy.

David Akers is killing my fantasy team. Unbelievable 63 yard field goal.

Wow, Louisiana Monroe knocks off (8)Arkansas in overtime.

Aug 2012

New rule: cannot start a new post, until I finish the one I am working on.

Success gets you where you are, but failure makes you who you are.

After 8 months the @MarsCuriosity has arrived. To put that in perspective New Horizons launched 6yrs ago, and will arrive at Pluto in 2015.

90s music, and a woody's cheese streak. Today already has win written all over it.

I've got news. Bots aren't clicking your FB Ads, drunks are. ProTip: Try not running your campaigns at night.

Jul 2012

Now that Hacker News is down the internet does seem slightly less interesting.

How is it possible that Nokia is trading at less than the value of its patent portfolio?

Ok, I'm officially hooked. If you aren't using @unbounce to test web layouts, you aren't doing it right.

That point where I am ready to write, but have too many ideas. Must choose one.

Removing corn subsidies would vastly improve U.S. healthcare.

Startups, beer and tacos. #TCATL at the Sweetwater Brewery.

Jun 2012

The internet will eventually break business models based around artificial scarcity. See Newspapers, Cable, Movies.

Science owes much more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science. #TIR

Rifkin's chapter on distributed capitalism in #TIR is phenomenal - although I do disagree with some of his political opinions.

In 1891 US revenue totaled $385m, while Pennsylvania Railroads revenue totaled $185m.

There is something really novel about communities where everybody bikes.

The savegame came to the users of Reddit, who took it deep into the tubes of the internet, and there it consumed them. reddit.com

May 2012

Google would do much better to stick to search, and stay away from social.

Apr 2012

While schooling may be a problem in this country, it may be a solution in others.

Federal education spending has increased three fold since 1970, while dropout rates and academic performance have changed insignificantly.

Anybody want to get together for the NFL draft tonight?

Is Intel giving computers more processors because they can no longer make single processors faster? #MooresLaw

Perhaps the greatest failure of our schooling system is that many brilliant people simply don't think they are brilliant.

@KyleDeTullio Where was that article you sent me about using Twitter to validate startups? Im doing a post and want to give credit.

@Resultly I am writing a post on using Twitter as a startup validation tool. Would you be interested?

Mar 2012

Every time I see a commercial for the Hunger Games I can't help but think that it is a remake of Running Man without Arnold.

#JOBSAct "Raises no taxes, costs government no money, and will certainly create jobs" shar.es

Had a great time speaking about starting a business while in college last night. I appreciate everyone's interest.

@sdidonato Just stumbled upon your Kickstarter project. Just wanted to say the textures on Beyond Earth are awesome. Keep up the good work!

Feb 2012

Keep playing the hits Pandora. #38special #BruceHornsby #EddieMoney

There are more people alive on earth today than have ever lived and died on this planet. Wow, can that be right?

Video: Spectacular Yosemite HD Time Lapse Just in case you need another nudge to take a hiking trip to one... tmblr.co

Jan 2012

"I used to think that technology could help education. I’ve probably spearheaded giving away more..." tmblr.co

"The unwillingness of Facebook and Google to share a public commons when it comes to the intersection of..." tmblr.co

I just tried @Flipboard for iPad and now I don't want to view my social information any other way. Any plans on making a similar web app?

Telepathy, world currency, space elevators, and an occupied Antarctica all on the books for all on the books for 2112 - me.lt

Trying some design outsourcing on Fiverr. Interested to see how this goes.

Auburn Grad and Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Whales, says SOPA is the wrong way to stop Internet piracy. me.lt

Arcfinity: Announcing Arc: a new magazine about the future from the makers of New Scientist - Arc: a new... tmblr.co

Many people think that you have to be a genius to start a business. Just be obsessively curious about the world.

Photo: Damn, someone invented it before I could write my blog post about it. emergentfutures: tmblr.co

Video: Lemonade: Detroit - A brilliant short about finding opportunities in Detroit. tmblr.co

Awesome RT@clarkaldrich Lorem Ipsum this buddy! I love using this dummy text, peppered with Business 2.0 start-up terms startupipsum.co

When systems become overbearing we lose our ability to innovate.

"I’m no more intelligent than the next guy. I’m just more curious." - Albert Einstein (via stoweboyd) tmblr.co

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