d.school: “the only way to do it is to DO IT.” Amen. (at Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.School))
Bridge. With lights. You know. (at Sens Restaurant)
The best sentence uttered this weekend.
5 Things We Learned from Dennis Rodman’s Trip to North Korea.
(via rafer)
Source: usatodaysports
Peeking in. (at Klein Field at Sunken Diamond)
This made me laugh out loud. David is right. People take CEOs and founders pretty damned seriously.
OTOH: Chocolate fountain!!
Experienced executives will warn you that people take the CEO’s ideas seriously, whether you mean them to or not.
Here’s the new office’s chocolate fountain.
Source: david
Life is Long
I say this — “Life is Long” — a lot when I’m talking with people about careers, and jobs, and getting to work together on things. What I really mean when I say it, often, is not to worry overmuch about the small things, the small decisions.
Except sometimes it’s not long at all.
Yesterday I found out a friend of mine passed away after being sick for a while, at the age of 41. It’s hit me pretty hard, and I felt nauseous most of yesterday and again this morning thinking about his family.
It’s a great example of the tension between life feeling long and short. I’ve known him since high school — I think we met in 1987! — when we were both doing Latin contests (nerds!) in Texas. Then we both got to Stanford as frosh in 1989 and hung out together, since we didn’t really know anyone else — and went from knowing each other a little to becoming friends as we figured this new place out. Over the years since, we’ve interacted a few times a year. For a while he worked in venture and helped us make some important breakthroughs at my own startup. And he worked in technology companies where our paths overlapped not infrequently.
And, bizarrely, we both liked the same set of sports teams: all things Stanford (natch), the Cowboys, the Braves, and the Spurs. (And the world needs a lot more Spurs fans.) So we’d connect a few times a year, complain about the Cowboys, marvel at the Spurs and Stanford, and talk about work, our families, and increasingly our kids.
Our work would intersect from time to time over the 20 years since Stanford, and we could always just pick up in whatever new context we were in.
So I’ve been thinking a lot over the last day since I found out about the nature of friendship, and how special it is to have an easy, comfortable friendship and working relationship with someone over the space of decades. It’s hard for me to really think that we won’t see each other on something or other, and talk about sports, and kids, and life, again this year. And next, and next.
I don’t really know quite how to finish this post. No pithy saying, no big lessons. But I miss my friend already, and worry about his family. And I feel very lucky to have known him over these 25 years we we’ve become who we are.
This great fan-made James Bond 50th anniversary montage is way, way better than the one they played at the Oscars.
Fan-fucking-tastic.
Source: robsheridan
Yes. Good morning.
Smithsonian Magazine has an interview with “The Man Behind The Best Nature GIFs On Tumblr”. In other words this guy:
A mountain gorilla (Africa - BBC)
Neat Tumblog….
Source: headlikeanorange
Firefox OS Hits The Ground Running With Phones From Telefonica, T-Mobile, Firefox Marketplace For Apps; 18 Carriers In All Signed Up For Mozilla’s Open Web Effort
I’m really proud of the work that the Mozilla team has done to launch FirefoxOS. Lots and lots of work to go, and a high, high degree of difficulty for long term relevance. But Mozilla’s done it before, and bringing an open platform to mobile is a Problem That Matters. It’s worth the challenge.
Congrats to everyone in getting to launch! Excited for the future. :-)
The world’s population is growing faster than any other time in history. It took thousands of years to populate the earth with 1 billion people. Now it only takes 13 years to add 1 billion people to the earth’s population.
In ten years we are going to be talking about mobile software platforms (e.g. Android, iOS) with 6 billion daily users. That’s rather large. I expect that there will be at least fifteen apps that each have 2 billion daily users, and many more that have 500 million daily users. The exciting part is that most of these apps don’t exist yet.
Source: arielseidman
FOMO? At GSB. (at Stanford Graduate School of Business)
Awesome — JS client for the Tumblr APIs. Go make new stuff! :-)
Despite writing Objective-C almost exclusively for the past year, JavaScript is actually my favorite programming language. I started writing a JavaScript client for the Tumblr API in June 2012 but simply haven’t had the free time to finish it.
Thankfully, John Crepezzi has not only finished the parts that were missing, but made what I had better in basically every way possible. It’s now available to everyone on GitHub or directly from NPM.
My favorite part: it comes with a script (
bin/repl.js) that bootstraps a REPL environment with both a configured API client instance and Underscore, for all of your API response filtering and mapping needs.
Source: seejohnrun
Analyzing share of time spent on social networking sites in December 2012, comScore reveals that while Facebook dominated at 83% share, Tumblr occupied the second spot (5.7%), more than Pinterest (1.9%), Twitter (1.7%), and LinkedIn (1.4%) combined, and almost as much as the aggregate of all other social networks (6.1%).
18-29-year-olds more than twice as likely as the average internet user to use Tumblr (13% vs. 6%).
(via Chart/table from: Tumblr Beat Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn for SocNet Time Spent in December)
(via rickwebb)
Source: marketingcharts.com
