March 2010
76 posts
John Mayer - John Mayer Trio - Another Kind of...
“Most schools and colleges spend too much time preparing students for careers and...”
– Op-Ed Columnist - The Sandra Bullock Trade - NYTimes.com
Watchterrysdiary:
Me shooting Ben Stiller in my therapist’s office.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Cat Power (33)
NPR (24)
Built to Spill (22)
Neko Case (13)
Bonobo (12)
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Wilco - Wilco - You Never Know
“Understanding the medium in which you work, informs your designs.”
– Design Lessons from 350 Million
Lot’s of people mess that up. How can you design for the web if you don’t use it? How can you build a great iPhone app if don’t understand it’s limitations. You can’t. It’s an often overlooked point.
Cool article on how the...
“If you keep showing up, I will keep playing for the rest of my life. I promise.”
– John Mayer in San Jose on March 26th, 2010. (via davemorin)
Chris Dixon on Dodd's Banking Bill
Chris Dixon has a good article over on SAI with regards to Dodd’s banking bill.
“Venture capital is a shining example of capitalism just like Adam Smith pictured it, where private vice really does lead to public virtue. Consider, for example, two of the largest areas of venture investment: biotech and cleantech. Here we see the best and brightest – top science graduates from places...
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Star...
Basecamp Introduction Document
We’ve recently started to revise the way we use Basecamp at Fuzz. The changes seem to be going well and I’m working on some additional posts outlining how we’re using Basecamp to mange tasks and projects. We’ve also start to give access to more and more clients. In doing so I thought that it would be important to create a document that provided an quick introduction to...
Bonobo - Black Sands - Kiara
Startups Get Hit By Shrapnel In The Banking Bill...
Startups Get Hit By Shrapnel In The Banking Bill
This is pretty crazy if you ask me. Fred wrote this post on the banking reform bill (backed by Chris Dodd) that is in the Senate right now. I’m not one to get involved with politics but sometimes the shear stupidity of what goes on astounds me. I understand the need for regulation and I understand the need to have “qualified...
Cat Power - The Greatest - Lived in Bars
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Spoon (45)
Wilco (32)
The Kooks (20)
Broken Bells (20)
Vampire Weekend (14)
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“This problem comes down to my struggle with self-discipline. I think everyone...”
– How to get unstuck in life | Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Bon Iver (54)
Frightened Rabbit (28)
Jay-Z (23)
Bonobo (14)
The National (11)
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Looking to the future with Cassandra | Digg About →
Good post about how Digg is using Cassandra to scale their databases.
The Key To Gmail: Sh*t Umbrellas →
What he means by that is that as a product with hundreds of millions of users (and a company with thousands of employees) there’s a lot of stuff constantly being hurled at the team — as a shit umbrella, the product managers protect the engineers from getting distracted. It’s not enough to be a “shit funnel” where they would pass some of the junk down to engineers, they need to fully protect the...
RegularOlTy: Be Positive footwear: The HighTop →
hardgraft:
“Created by Slam Jam Italy, Be Positive presents its third collection of premium quality and stylish footwear. Handmade and highly praised the footwear features a fusion of high end uppers and sporty white soles.
Be Positive has created a buzz around the globe for its back to simplicity…
