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What You Can Learn From FlipBoard’s $200 Million Valuation
Why is this company, only a year old, with an idea so simple, worth so much? And why didn’t anyone think of this before? Here are a few insights that we all can learn from FlipBoard:
The Happy Helping Hands Club
The Helping Hands Club is a club best kept small, if it is to stay happy. Too many helping hands means diminishing marginal returns to a point were it becomes sub-optimal. Even a membership of two…
The Happy Helping Hands Club
The Helping Hands Club is a club best kept small, if it is to stay happy. Too many helping hands means diminishing marginal returns to a point were it becomes sub-optimal. Even a membership of two…
Charlie Sheen’s #TigerBlood Internship Application Round 4
Round 4, the lucky 50 got an email at 12:30 this afternoon. I am one of the chosen few with TigerBlood. April 11 is also my birthday. I am so #winning #winning #winning today!
Three Lessons from Goldilocks
Is the porridge too hot? Too cold? Or just right? I don’t really care. I just know that Goldilocks is pretty darn smart. Lesson 1: Taking Risks and Taking Initiative She was lost in the woods…
The Beauty of Boring Things
We should all have something worth sharing, especially in the jobs that we do. Even the most boring things like doing sales calls or building Excel spreadsheets have their merits.
Why Doing What You Love is the Biggest Piece of Bullshit Advice Ever
I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard people say “do what you love.” It’s bullshit career advice. Do you ever notice that the phrase is often parroted by people who seem to have their lives…
The Big Yellow Circle
Imagine a circle — a yellow circle, and there is a golden disk in the middle. That golden disk is the ultimate happiness, and people in the circle want to be near it at all times. There is only one…
The Big Yellow Circle
Imagine a circle — a yellow circle, and there is a golden disk in the middle. That golden disk is the ultimate happiness, and people in the circle want to be near it at all times. There is only one…
Charlie Sheen’s #TigerBlood Internship Application Round 3
This one is actually interesting, and surprisingly serious in nature. Round three of the Charlie Sheen #TigerBlood Internship application is essentially a short two-minute YouTube video case study.
Living in a Box
If you’re a Big Bang fanatic, you may have come across the idea of Schrodinger’s Cat. The cat is in a perpetual state of mystery – assumed to be both alive and dead. You can only find out the fate of…
The Immediacy of Things – How the iPad 2 Messes with My Belief System
Let’s talk about words that start with the letter I today. Ice-cream. The Incredibles. Immediacy. Oh and how can I forget — iPads! Lining up for the iPad 2 put a lot of things into context for me. I…
Word/Play Part Deux! “CLOUD”
*Drum Roll*….. here are this week’s Word/Play submissions!
One word, 24hrs to create.
Catherine Shyu
Aarti Bhatnagar
Bryan Trinh
Bryan Trinh (Take 2)
Christopher Franco
Kevin Huynh
Kevin Kuramura
Kourosh Bakhtvar
Jimmy Chen Sweet web app! Click on the pic to check it outtt
Kristine deGuzman
Luke Elmers
Mansi Shah
Michelle Lew
Miraya Berke
Justin Singh
Rachel Lo
Sophia Richter
Stella Koh (Follow the link to listen!)
Veronica Ng
Vince Law
Wordplay – Cloud
A week or so ago, Kevin Huynh challenged me to Word / Play. It’s a super complicated game he invented where he says a word, and I have 24 hours to create something, anything, based on the word. Then…
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