April 2011
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What You Can Learn From FlipBoard’s $200 Million... →
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:
Apr 21st
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…
Apr 15th
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…
Apr 14th
Charlie Sheen’s #TigerBlood Internship Application... →
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!
Apr 12th
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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…
Apr 9th
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.
Apr 5th
March 2011
11 posts
Why Doing What You Love is the Biggest Piece of... →
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…
Mar 31st
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…
Mar 27th
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…
Mar 26th
Charlie Sheen’s #TigerBlood Internship Application... →
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.
Mar 24th
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…
Mar 19th
Mar 19th
The Immediacy of Things – How the iPad 2 Messes... →
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…
Mar 13th
Word/Play Part Deux! "CLOUD"
kiwimonk: *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 ...
Mar 12th
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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…
Mar 12th
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People You Want to Be Around →
You text them at 3am in the morning with some cool idea that can radically alter reality and bring aliens to Earth. Because that’s just you. You’re the type of person that would do that. You’re…
Mar 11th
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Taylor swift, Marie Digby, Jason Mraz...
modelcardboard: Why are your songs so awesome?
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“Every day, hundreds of millions of people use the Internet to blog and tweet and...”
– June Cohen, The Rise of Social Media is Really a Reprise (via alextcone)
Jan 8th
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December 2009
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anonymous things i want to say to people
vivianswei: 1. i don’t know you that well, but i admire you 2. im really thankful for everything you did to cover me last semester.  i will always owe you one! im glad the dislike we felt for each other turned into lots of like for each other :] 3. i feel like we hang out more at home than we do here :[ which isnt a lot more! 4. we go to school in diff places, but i always wonder what you and...
Dec 18th
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“Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the...”
–  Voltaire
Dec 10th
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Starting Your Own Business Does Not Have To Be... →
alexpopescu: A little bit of optimism is good for the time you are preparing to create your startup. People looking for VC funding instead of bootstrapping might disagree though with advise like: You don’t have to hit a home run or Don’t Quit Your Job Until You Are Ready, but others ☞ will still agree.
Dec 1st
November 2009
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My Favorite Liar →
(via janelotus) awesome story!
Nov 27th
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“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
Nov 24th
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“Disregard small affairs. Treat them like hopscotch and step over all the...”
Nov 23rd