August 2010
13 posts
“My belief is that every 15 to 20 years, with an obvious bell curve of energy,...”
– What Grant Achatz Saw at El Bulli - NYTimes.com
“Let’s not bullshit each other —- the most important characteristic of any CEO is...”
– The mighty comment blogger JLM in a comment to this post:
A VC: What A CEO Does
(via fred-wilson)
“A monkey presses a lever and is given lettuce. The monkey is happy and continues...”
– SCVNGR’s Secret Game Mechanics Playdeck (via Instapaper)
“Between The Great Backlash Against Waterfall Design and The Supreme Acceptance...”
– Readme Driven Development (via Instapaper)
“Complexity is not going away. It’s just moving to a different spot in the...”
– Wikibollocks: The Shirky Rules - Whimsley (via Instapaper)
"one of our engineers even figured out how to make... →
“you can paint over the stains on the wall, but even if you do that, it won’t...”
– Mad Men Recap: New Year, Same You — Vulture (via Instapaper)
“Again, if you’re repairing to branding clubs for proof of your irreducibly...”
– Rich People Things: I’m With The Brand - The Awl (via Instapaper)
“When I get a French translation of one of my books that says ‘translated from...”
– The Guardian interview with Don DeLillo. (via Instapaper)
“Yes, we are burning down; time is disintegrating.”
– Swiss Air Flight 111 Plane Crash History - Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy - Esquire (via Instapaper)
“Apple effectively has control of all signaling between iPhones for call setup...”
– FaceTime – Has Apple Suckered the Operators Again? | Stuart Henshall (via Instapaper)