Monthly Archives: April 2012
Dreams and APIs
To the Pain!
Din
“No, you’re not the only one, David. It amazes me that some of the tech blogs have so many dozens of posts each day. There just isn’t that much going on that really matters.” – Richard Bennett
Last-Minute Lunch
On the way back from my Monday morning meeting, I was pulled into the Rainbow to pick up a baguette, some cheese, and salami. Yes, one of my favorite lunches – but why now, why today? Turns out, I had a very important, last-minute lunch meeting:
Wobble more.
“So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I’ll never accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any …
Beware of Geeks Bearing Platforms
“Building on top of someone elses (Apple’s) platform is getting scarier and scarier. They are constantly making sweeping changes that effect our bottom line and provide no transparency, or analytics of almost any kinds, for devs. If I didn’t know better I’d say apple hates devs and thinks of us only as a necessary evil… …
The most important things are quiet
“…it’s easy to be distracted and place value on outside noise instead of focusing on the task at hand or important things in life. With this…I am taking myself out of FB and quieting the noise around me. It’s just not necessary for me to keep in touch with those that mean the most to …
Get Comfortable
“We tend to massively underestimate the compounding returns of intelligence. As humans, we need to solve big problems. If you graduate Stanford at 22 and Google recruits you, you’ll work a 9-to-5. It’s probably more like an 11-to-3 in terms of hard work. They’ll pay well. It’s relaxing. But what they are actually doing is …
No Matter
“The news didn’t warn us about the death of the real estate market that was coming in 2008. And they weren’t suspicious about the war in Iraq. They can report on sports, but that doesn’t matter. More real people believe in climate change than network anchors. The news doesn’t echo our skepticism or pessimism about …