Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 10 Notes Essay “It’s hard; entrepreneurs are congenitally wired to be too early. And being too early is a bigger problem for entrepreneurs than not being correct. It’s very hard to sit and just wait for things to arrive. It almost never works. You burn through your capital. You […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Stare Down
2012.06.11 – 15:58
Stare Down “Repeated uncontrollable attacks encourage the subordinate to accept his fate and give in to a feeling of learned helplessness. The generalized stress response this creates will then accumulate over successive episodes to make underlings more susceptible to disease and less fertile. Reproductive success plummets, and the will breaks.”
Capitalism—Posner – The Becker-Posner Blog
2012.06.11 – 08:46
Capitalism—Posner – The Becker-Posner Blog ” Greenspan and other like-minded economists and political leaders were wrong to think capitalism self-regulating; they neglected the need for an institutional structure, and a culture, that differentiate successful from unsuccessful capitalist economies.”
Twitter: @johnroderick
2012.06.11 – 08:38
johnroderick I’ve been reflecting on my Hilton experience of yesterday. Please read this while I collect my thoughts: http://t.co/PU1yQePd
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind
2012.06.09 – 17:47
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind A Diane Ravitch rant
Twitter: @jlwoj
2012.06.09 – 14:25
jlwoj Bud Selig and Ron Moore have long, pot-fueled discussions about the lurking dangers of robots.
Blog: Science: The Winning Answer To A Burning Question
2012.06.08 – 20:07
The Winning Answer To A Burning Question (author unknown), Science
Blog: kottke.org: Pixar’s story rules: how to create compelling stories
2012.06.08 – 12:22
Pixar's story rules: how to create compelling stories Jason Kottke, kottke.org
Blog: Beaneball: Ray Fosse and Scott Hatteberg
2012.06.08 – 07:10
Ray Fosse and Scott Hatteberg jasonw@beaneball.org (Jason Wojciechowski), Beaneball
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Tram Lines of Left and Right
2012.06.08 – 00:07
Tram Lines of Left and Right Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher
10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
2012.06.07 – 22:02
10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine “If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats—if we are going to ask them to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we […]
Blog: Frontal Cortex: Why We Don’t Believe In Science
2012.06.07 – 16:37
Why We Don’t Believe In Science Jonah Lehrer, Frontal Cortex
Blog: Journal of a Programmer: Whales and Martingales
2012.06.07 – 11:32
Whales and Martingales Bryan Pendleton, Journal of a Programmer
Blog: Journal of a Programmer: Whales and Martingales
2012.06.07 – 11:19
Whales and Martingales Bryan Pendleton, Journal of a Programmer
Schumpeter: In praise of misfits | The Economist
2012.06.07 – 10:40
Schumpeter: In praise of misfits | The Economist But what do you call the “Full of Themselves” mental disorder that afflicts venture capitalists?
Some Economics of Pay What You Want Pricing — Marginal Revolution
2012.06.07 – 10:40
Some Economics of Pay What You Want Pricing — Marginal Revolution
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler
2012.06.07 – 09:06
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit | David Graeber | The Baffler “Common sense suggests that if you want to maximize scientific creativity, you find some bright people, give them the resources they need to pursue whatever idea comes into their heads, and then leave them alone. Most will turn up nothing, […]