“He has no job, no bank account and does not accept government welfare. In fact, Suelo has no money at all.”
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Stunned dot us
“It’s not about “innovation in America” or which tech blog loves startups the most. This is about how Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives. Now it has and we’re all too stunned to figure out what’s next” – Alexis Madrigal
Facebook and CraigsList Feel the Same
Video of the Tech Burnout Discussion I Led @ Minnebar 2012
From an audience-engagement perspective – this was one of my favorite MinneBar sessions ever. Thanks to all that shared their burnout experiences. More info in the MinneBar Wiki: 410 Gone: A Discussion of Burnout, Depression, and Finding Happiness in the Technical World
To Do: Figure out why I’m here
“After a couple of discussions like that, I realized that he was saying was that I should think about whether that was really the most valuable thing I could be doing … it would be more useful to think about what high-impact things I could do that no one else was doing.” – Michael Abrash
$0 is No Longer an Innovation
“I wish there were a for-pay service I could switch to which would be easy and fast and nothing would break. I think the free email has killed off all the good for-pay email.” – Dave Winer From Opt Out’s ‘Free as in Lunch’ chapter: “An email client that can handle today’s daily onslaught of …
We’re Not Ourselves
thanks to nazgulnsarsil for inspiring the comic.
I’ve Got a Theory…
My hypothesis suggests that social media engagement and macroeconomic conditions are inversely related. Meaning: as people become more professionally engaged they will naturally engage less with social media. Yes, this means the boom in Facebook and Twitter activiy etc over the past 4 years was more about people coping with interesting times than anything else. …
Like Eternal September
“Facebook became uncool when it opened up the site to people who weren’t in your same college.” – jshintaku While I dislike Facebook, I find the possibility that, it’s popular because it once was cool, very amusing. “Eternal September is a Usenet slang expression, coined by Dave Fischer, for the period beginning September 1993. The …
Things Your Friends Don’t Want to Hear
“I couldn’t keep up, and I felt negligent. It was more work than what it was worth, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a bunch of useless junk. It was a big time suck.” – David Stephenson on quitting social media