“Google is too powerful, too arrogant, too entrenched to be worth our love. Let them defend themselves, I’d rather devote my emotional energy to the upstarts and startups. They deserve our passion.” – Nelson Minar
Month: January 2012
Merlin Mann: Makebelieve Help, Old Butchers, and Figuring Out Who You Are
“Some people don’t start making money until you forget who you are”
“Don’t just take a collection of your posts.”
“…when you meet someone and they ask for your business card, how cool will it be when you can say, ‘here, take my book instead.’” – James Altucher
Open Loop #7 – Turtle Turtle Turtle
Beer: Jamie – Bakken Bock, Garrick – Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale 2013 (BCJP Style Guidelines – American Barleywine) Sam Adams’ Triple Bock (
Daily Reality Continued
“The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what I call ‘living in your calendar.’ That means taking your tasks off the to-do list, estimating how much time each of them will consume, and transferring them to your calendar.” – Daniel Markovitz I’ve been ‘living in my calendar’ for 18 months now – since I […]
Slab City – Opting out of Public Services
A nearby RV has a generator. There’s no running water, no power lines, no sewage service and no trash pickup, which can give the place a Mad Max post-apocalyptic feel. Rusted bicycles and box springs peek through small mountains of twisted metal. – Gloria Hillard
+Creeping
“There are times I don’t want to be marketed to.” – Dave Winer
“Either what I create is remarkable or what I create is unread.”
” I don’t want to make it easy to share what I write. If it’s as remarkable as it ought to be, it will be shared. There will not, however, be any casual tweets or likes. Besides, those buttons waste a lot of space and tend to ruin the reading experience.” – J. D. Bentley
No.
“Never before has it been so important to say ‘no.’ No, I’m not going to read that article. No, I’m not going to read that email. No, I’m not going to take that phone call. No, I’m not going to site through that meeting.” – Peter Bregman, 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and […]
The Open Web Needs Us
“We need to make it always-easier for people to own and run their own infrastructure. People think it’s hard, but it doesn’t have to be! Each of us can have the equiv of a printing plant, that’s the magic of tech. No harder to keep running than a laptop. To those people in tech who […]