May 2012
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How I make time to learn Chinese
Over the past two years or so, I’ve been learning Chinese on and off using various methods of adult learning. I tried Rosetta Stone, I tried buying a textbook with CDs and teaching myself, and I even signed up for a class. I was definitely picking up some of the basics, but I was doing so at a painfully slow rate.
In late January of this year after about 18 months of bouncing around...
April 2012
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The Shoflow Team Blog: Where to watch your... →
shoflow:
Whether online or on TV, there are no shortage of places to watch your favorite shows. For the Shoflow Team, it seems like we’re often taking advantage of all of them. This is why we’re super excited to announce the introduction of “where to watch,” the easiest way for you to see where your…
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“I’m sometimes called a serial entrepreneur, but that’s only because, before...”
– Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga
February 2012
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Growth vs. Security: Facebook vs. Microsoft? →
Interesting quote from Reuters today… No further comment of course. :)
“At the end of the day, if you have a small amount of money that you are in a position to lose a chunk of it and you want to speculate on Facebook, go ahead,” he added. “But don’t use money that you really need to save to do it. I would put it in Microsoft, which is dirt cheap right...
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“We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”
– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s S-1 Letter
Totally inspirational read that lays out a super motivating way to think about business, that reminds me of Jeff Bezos’ approach in a lot of ways.
January 2012
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“The company, if built correctly, will be more important than any single product...”
– Fred Wilson - AVC (via kirklove)
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Why Seattle is Awesome →
I present this brilliant and hilarious photo tour of why Seattle is great with no further comment other than thanks to Andy for sharing!
December 2011
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Here's to Another Great Year
It’d be a bit of an understatement for me to say that I’m looking forward to what 2012 has in store, mostly because I’ve had such an amazing 2011. I know I’ve said this about years past—and I tend to be a pretty overenthusiastic person in general—but as I look back on 2011, it’s really easy to say that it has objectively been the best year of my life thus far. Too...
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November 2011
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“Are you in sitting on the couch drinking tea kind of labor or screaming, blood...”
– Michael Arrington, hilarious.
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“Start by picking a hard problem, and then at every decision point, take the...”
– Paul Graham, How to Make Wealth
October 2011
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“We underestimated the appeal of the single Web site and a single service. We...”
– Netflix Spokesman (NY Times)
Wow… How can you underestimate that? I think the first comment on Hacker News has it right: Netflix had a solid subscriber base who was complacent with paying $15-20 per month without using the service, and they actually convinced a significant portion of that...
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September 2011
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Djokovic Mows Down Nadal To Win U.S. Open →
parislemon:
It’s amazing that over the past few years the discussions have evolved from whether Federer is the best ever, to whether Nadal will be the best ever, to now whether Djokovic may eventually be the best ever.
These are three of the best players ever and they’ve come back-to-back-to-back.
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August 2011
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“While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most...”
– Warren Buffet
word, word, word
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
July 2011
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“In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.”
– Paul Graham
The best article I’ve read in a long time.
Amazon's Inevitable Android Tablet →
parislemon:
We first reported on this as a rumor (from a great source) last September. Now it looks like it’s definitely happening this October.
It will be a 9-inch tablet with a color touchsceen (obviously). But the key element is that it will run Google’s Android OS. Remember, Amazon now has a competing Android app store to Google’s own — but it’s a pain in the ass to install. Now it will...
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“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime...”
– Warren Buffett
Gotta love him.
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“Can we all just agree that rinsing off b4 getting in the pool is a waste of...”
– @rainnwilson
Best. Tweet. Ever.
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RIM Responds to Exec's Open Letter →
I actually have to give RIM some props for responding to the open letter posted on BGR earlier today by an anonymous RIM executive. Now days, it isn’t often that you have companies responding directly to leaks and criticism on the blogosphere.
It’s important that public companies are engaged in an open dialogue with us, their potential customers shareholders, about their strengths and...
June 2011
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Samsung Seeks Ban on Apple Products Sale in US →
This seems just a little unlikely to happen:
Samsung Electronics Co. said on Thursday that it expanded its legal tussle with Apple Inc. by filing a complaint with the International Trade Commission seeking to stop the sale of key Apple products in the U.S.