Half-Baked Thoughts for Articles, Kept On Twitter

  1. I'm at Borders (200 King St, at 3rd St, San Francisco). http://4sq.com/2kLuKw
  2. Michael Cera Playboy Interview - August 2010 Playboy 20Q - Interview with Michael Cera: http://bit.ly/8Xn090
  3. RT @TechCrunch YC-Funded Optimizely Makes It Remarkably Easy To Run A/B Tests On Your Website http://tcrn.ch/9Vg7O2
  4. Looking for great eng. w/ experience in the FB app world, and uses one of these regularly: PHP, MySQL, or Flash. Angel-funded, SF startup!
  5. Welcome to the Lost Decade for Entrepreneurs (IPOs way down!) http://bit.ly/9n1bF3 via @sgblank
  6. http://www.playboy.com/articles/bill-gates-playboy-interview/index.html playboy interview of bill gates in 1994. Good read!
  7. Eagle has landed! (iPhone 4 is in my hands)
  8. So many good videos -- particularly the Steve Jobs ones: http://video.allthingsd.com/
  9. "I don't feel that a man will wear out as quickly as he will rust out" -- Colonel Harland Sanders on retiring. Agreed!
  10. Cool! Starbucks Store – 50% off Frappuccinos from 3pm-5pm every day until 5/16/2010 http://bit.ly/by398w via #riveti
  11. Eric Schmidt looks back at Google's IPO (it wasn't a smooth ride!) Great read! http://bit.ly/bo39zz via @mherman2
  12. RT @TechCrunch When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book Excerpt) http://tcrn.ch/9iYJT8
  13. Amazing video, must see for tech entrepreneurs. Steve Blank: Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups -- http://bit.ly/b7a85a
  14. Hmm. Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work? http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1893946,00.html
  15. Russian firm Digital Sky Technologies invested in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon, beating out silicon valley investors http://nyti.ms/btm4XZ
  16. Cool! Gives You Hell (Glee Cast Version) - Number 97 most popular song on iTunes http://bit.ly/cF89NJ via #riveti
  17. The money made by Microsoft, Apple and Google, 1985 until today http://bit.ly/bB7wa1 ... Great article and graphs!
  18. iPad is Beautiful. Everyone will want one!
  19. Eric Schmidt vs. Steve Jobs =( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/technology/14brawl.html?pagewanted=1
  20. Happy birthday Steve.
  21. RT @mashable Why We're In the Age of the Citizen Philanthropist http://bit.ly/aWgClF
  22. Bill Gates' Notes - "I take a lot of notes, and often share them and my own thoughts on the subject with others" http://bit.ly/5NXxr8
  23. Donate to Citizen Effect's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund: http://bit.ly/7qe4hn
  24. Thoroughly enjoying Glee Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2. http://bit.ly/8QMckM
  25. Ten Rules for Web Startups by Twitter Founder - http://bit.ly/5mQl7f
  26. Steve Jobs' resume http://homepage.mac.com/steve/Resume.html
  27. Ten Best- and Worst-Performing Stocks of 2009 via Yahoo Finance http://bit.ly/5gbQ9v
  28. 10 "Mungerisms - Charlie Munger on How to Become Rich http://bit.ly/6zW0W0
  29. RT @Wired James Cameron’s New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever | Magazine http://bit.ly/8Az6Ll
  30. SF - The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. http://bit.ly/52j9AC from the S.F. Weekly
  31. SF friends - I'd love to see you at the Citizen Effect Launch Party, Thursday 12/3. Be sure to RSVP, space is limited http://bit.ly/4GLAoM
  32. CNBC Video: Warren Buffett & Bill Gates - Keeping American Great http://www.cnbc.com/id/33940689
  33. Have an impact with real people around the world this season: Citizen Effect - http://bit.ly/19rGiN
  34. RT @socialearth Redefining Philanthropy: Introducing The Citizen Effect | SocialEarth http://bit.ly/3QojuT
  35. Career Paths of Retail CEOs http://retailindustry.about.com/od/retailjobscareers/a/ceocareerpath.htm ... lots of Stanford grads
  36. SF Chocolate festival on sat anyone? http://bit.ly/3wL0LR
  37. Paul Graham's Anatomy of Determination - good entrepreneurship article! http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
  38. http://twitpic.com/f4yzg - Seen in Brentwood, CA
  39. Congratulations @Rick_Bayless . Must fly out to Chicago!
  40. Starcraft 2 pushed out until 2010 http://bit.ly/5L8Ae - productivity continues for at least another 6 months.
  41. Found out my next-door neighbor and classmate in highschool co-founded http://playdom.com - which is kicking ass! Great job Dan!!
  42. Drool. http://karma.fiskerautomotive.com/gallery/index
  43. Foodie? You'll love this show on Hulu http://bit.ly/YdldV
  44. Warren Buffet's cartoon for kids. AWESOME. http://bit.ly/Pceyo It goes a bit fast over some important concepts, but a great start!
  45. "Present like Steve Jobs". Not the best meta-presentation (video), but not bad... http://bit.ly/XqrO6
  46. Holy crap. Jason Bateman acting when he was a kid-same smile! http://bit.ly/1iMU7s
  47. Dreamt that I was riding around with Warren Buffett in a public bus, asking him questions for a full hour. Take that, $1.68M lunch!
  48. http://bit.ly/zZtfQ Pretty funny series with Tony Hale (Buster Bluth). Funny!
  49. Really interesting social entrepreneurship project: small project donations (1Well). See http://bit.ly/j75JO
  50. Micro Turn MMOs FTW!
  51. Not as young as I used to be, but still fun to hang around Reddit, GitHub, and CarrotSticks founders @ Brickhouse & Rickenbacker's
  52. Thanks @anxman for lunch at Facebook. Could Facebook's HQ be anymore Google 2.0?? Only difference was the bullpen style seating!
  53. @playspymaster I want an invite!
  54. rubyonrailscontractors.com - got our first RFP for "contractor shall supply rail that meets the 'Specification for Steel Rails'". Funny!
  55. ddos's are so fun...
  56. I'd love your feedback! An addictive, real time twitter topic viewer! http://www.riveti.com/ :)
  57. VIDEO: How Obama used data to win the election http://is.gd/z0ll - a video of a great talk by Dan Siroker, analytics lead of Obama Campaign!
  58. Just pon farr'ed in his pants
  59. Buffet And Gates - a series of fascinating videos http://tinyurl.com/c99luu
  60. so many good ken burns documentaries on netflix "watch instantly", but only until May 1 to watch them!!
  61. Oct is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are Jul, Jan, Sept, Apr, Nov, May, Mar, Jun, Dec, Aug & Feb
  62. The secret source of humor is not joy, but sorrow; there is no laughter in heaven. - MarkTwain
  63. *I* don't even care what I'm doing right now.
  64. Good advice from some VCs http://tinyurl.com/dajtca
  65. Good advice from Reid Hoff http://tinyurl.com/cgueto
  66. creating an objective pay scale with joel http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090401/how-hard-could-it-be-employees-negotiate-pay-raises.html
  67. what, oh what, is the perfect financial structure for business(es) of a guy like me?
  68. The world is flat @ MIT http://tinyurl.com/c3qpku
  69. another way to think: what does your business *need* to succeed, that it's missing right now? Forget your own agenda, focus on what's needed
  70. it turns out I figured out my passions in middle school classes (programming, acting, industrial eng). When did you figure out yours?
  71. Learn learn learn. http://tinyurl.com/d6wwym
  72. remember, you don't have to make it back the same way you lost it!
  73. pg says entreprenuer='relentlessly resourceful' relentless=passionate&commited. 'Resourceful' core, too? Necessary but not sufficient? Hmm
  74. How to find what someone's passionate about? Ask what news they read? What their perfect day would be? What they could do day in and out?
  75. Problem? Always find the root cause? http://tinyurl.com/aes6l9
  76. Hang With People Better Than You http://tinyurl.com/auayvw
  77. How to be an angel investor - http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html
  78. perhaps obvious to most, but worthwhile as a reminder http://www.paulgraham.com/13sentences.html
  79. http://tinyurl.com/db48v9
  80. http://tinyurl.com/wp7wo
  81. if you you could turn that quarter into $250 would you be more frugal?
  82. Sales=making people feel good about what they bought
  83. IF: everyone thinks it’s a great idea-probably sucks; ppl understand it-you’re too late; ppl don’t like it & don’t understand it-prob. sucks
  84. Are you going for the lowest hanging fruit first? Save the hard work for when you have gobs of money.
  85. Your first market should be well connected.
  86. Warning: we're a *nix-only firm. As a developer, you can use Windows at your own risk. We're not wasting any time/money on your shortcomings
  87. If there were only 1 thing you could get done today, what would it be? Do it first, (e.g. from 9am-11am).
  88. Where [regular] attention goes, energy flows and results show.
  89. what you plan, you understand
  90. What systems and roles have you documented at your business?
  91. Eisenhower said: "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." (thanks CR!)
  92. Do you *know* how much money per month to spend on fun? Have left to spend on fun this month? If not, you aren't in control of your money.
  93. Napoleon said that no battles ever go according to plan. So why did he plan battles more meticulously than anyone else?
  94. How do you build an organization where EVERYONE is paid mostly by performance?