January 2012
“This [getting more women in engineering] should be of utmost priority, given...”
– Facebook’s First Female Engineer Leaves « 620house
Having done a startup with my wife, I’m going to give myself some leeway here to comment freely. Women should be better guided into technical roles at every stage of education. No one disagrees with that, so lets get specific.
...
December 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
The Black Keys (11)
LCD Soundsystem (11)
Death Cab for Cutie (11)
Daft Punk (5)
La Roux (2)
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3 tags
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Daft Punk (13)
Ratatat (2)
La Roux (2)
Lady Gaga (2)
Queen (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
La Roux (36)
Death Cab For Cutie (20)
The Notwist (9)
LCD Soundsystem (2)
Daft Punk (2)
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WHO IS BOB TREVINS?
November 2011
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
The Knife (20)
La Roux (12)
Death Cab For Cutie (11)
Ratatat (2)
Kid Cudi (2)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Death Cab For Cutie (26)
Junior Boys (17)
The Notwist (13)
Ratatat (12)
The Postal Service (10)
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Logitech Alert and Dropbox →
This integration is really interesting. They will automatically put the security footage from a camera into your Dropbox folder. The specifics are what make this interesting: they aren’t using our API, they are just putting things into your Dropbox. This kind of passive desktop API is really interesting and allows for a new kind of platform integration.
I look forward to seeing what other...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Michael Jackson (9)
LCD Soundsystem (5)
Arty (4)
Boom Jinx & Andrew Bayer (3)
Above & Beyond vs. Kyau & Albert (3)
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How to bring good design to a platform →
Dropbox is a platform, and I’ve been thinking about this issue recently. Marco does a good job here.
“The UP is an extremely well designed & engineered product accompanied by an...”
– A review of Jawbone’s UP
“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I’m under...”
– Dorothy Parker
/blog/post/1/ →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30) →
Justice (20)
The Postal Service (10)
Queen (9)
Orbital (5)
Nine Inch Nails (4)
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October 2011
Guess What This Is
paulgraham.com/addiction.html
mauronewmedia.com/blog/2011/02/why-angry-birds-is-so-successful-a-cognitive-teardown-of-the-user-experience/
paulgraham.com/boss.html
blog.indexventures.com/a-detective-a-salesman-and-a-coach-3/
bryce.vc/post/5775029321/fear-of-a-vc-monoculture
blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/02/arguing-is-pointless.html
...
All The Tumblr Blogs I Follow
http://www.davidslog.com http://marco.tumblr.com http://windonaleaf.net http://factoryjoe.tumblr.com http://dietrich.tumblr.com http://hwork.tumblr.com http://tedr.tumblr.com http://bfioca.tumblr.com http://joelaz.com http://notes.variogr.am http://www.michaelgalpert.com http://socmoth.tumblr.com http://bijansabet.com http://log.scifihifi.com http://jstn.cc http://lonelysandwich.com...
Pogue: I Love Dropbox →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-9) →
Nine Inch Nails (70)
La Roux (18)
The Streets (11)
The Postal Service (9)
Daft Punk (9)
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"Inequality that exists in our country is immoral"...
bijan:
This morning, I was going thru my Tumblr Dashboard and I saw Steve Boyd’s reblog the Ben & Jerry’s letter regarding the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Go read the whole thing.
The line, “The inequity that exists between classes in our country is simply immoral” is the one that hits me the hardest.
It’s the message I was trying to convey here and here. But the Ben & Jerry’s board...
Bringing Sexy Back
Jackson also said that she hoped that the new album would have a rounder sexier tone. “I’d like a more sexual feel to the record, but not in a sex-in-the-club kinda way—the way sexy was before it got made dirty. Sexy can be classy, sexy can be cool, sexy can be actually sexy,” she said.
- Elly Jackson from La Roux
Instapaper-Zero, day 3 & 4
Was: 1478 Now: 1,483 ∆: +5! Worth reading:
Sean Parker ‘s Email to Spotify’s Daniel Ek
Why Startup Hubs Work
Not worth reading:
Steve Jobs: His 10 Commandments - The Daily Beast
Wheelz: Automotive Veterans Launch P2P Campus Car Sharing Platform Backed By Former Facebook VP | TechCrunch
