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Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:15:12 +0900

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Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:48:07 +0900

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epicurely: It’s not that difficult to find good risotto in...

Tue, 08 May 2012 05:30:00 +0900

epicurely:

It’s not that difficult to find good risotto in Italy, but only once in a while you come across a truly great risotto.

marksbirch: Every so often in my web ramblings, I come across...

Tue, 08 May 2012 05:26:23 +0900

marksbirch:

Every so often in my web ramblings, I come across an interesting tidbit. While not meant to be an endorsement of Automattic, I find it interesting that a company with such a huge impact on the Internet has 113 employees total and is not constrained by geography. While not quite the 12 person, $1 billion tech company I wrote about last year (and which Instagram was so gracious to prove), it is quite an impressive feat.

Massive teams with extraneous resources not directly adding value to the products these companies create are going to be a thing of the past. I could not honestly tell you what 75% of the employees at Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and the like are doing. These are companies with teetering org charts filled with people that exist only to justify their own existence and make imaginary work for others. The result is that the products produced over time are simply not that great.

Forget about starting all lean startup then binge hiring to scale the company. That is the slow boat to Bloatsville, management bureaucracy, product stagnation, and shitty HR employee manuals. Size is simply puts a chokehold on innovation and stifles independent thought. Start lean and stay lean and never hire for the sake of hiring even if the pull of snagging an “A player” infects your thinking* or your investors push you to hire in order to take the market advantage.

* There are no A players, that is a bit of myth-busting I plan to drop this week.

Fuck Yeah APIs: Dining with Data: Digesting Food and APIs

Thu, 03 May 2012 05:01:59 +0900

Fuck Yeah APIs: Dining with Data: Digesting Food and APIs:

fuckyeahapis:

“The most important aspect of food is the discovery experience (besides actually eating). An individual needs to uncover these new tastes, foods, restaurants, recipes, and ingredients. Fortunately, you are now able to harness the power of apps and APIs to save you time, and access relevant…

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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:33:50 +0900

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"Empirically, it’s not just for other people that you need to start small. You need to for your own..."

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:38:44 +0900

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Empirically, it’s not just for other people that you need to start small. You need to for your own sake. Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew at first how big their companies were going to get. All they knew was that they were onto something. Maybe it’s a bad idea to have really big ambitions initially, because the bigger your ambition, the longer it’s going to take, and the further you project into the future, the more likely you’ll get it wrong.

I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. You’ll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Don’t try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken. Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward.

The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one.

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- (via sarahjuddwelch)

Epicurely: March (Burger & Chicken) Madness

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:48:59 +0900

Epicurely: March (Burger & Chicken) Madness:

epicurely:

If you’re not from the U.S. or didn’t go to college here you may not be familiar with the term March Madness. It refers to the final stretch of the college basketball season, when teams from all over the nation compete for the opportunity to participate in a single-elimination NCAA…

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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:14:01 +0900

jacquesofalltrades: Rest up Jack, and get well soon! (via Jack,...

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 07:13:10 +0900

jacquesofalltrades:

Rest up Jack, and get well soon!

(via Jack, The Georgetown Bulldog, May Need Knee Surgery)

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Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:31:23 +0900

anillegiblemess: It. Kills. Me.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:32:38 +0900

anillegiblemess:

It. Kills. Me.

Epicurely: The Future of Food: Insects or Mutant Meat? Your Choice.

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:00:23 +0900

Epicurely: The Future of Food: Insects or Mutant Meat? Your Choice.:

epicurely:

Most of you probably know about chocolate-covered ants or have watched an episode or two of Bizarre Foods where people from far-off lands consume exotic and strange things… but have YOU ever munched on a crispy critter?

If not, there’s no time like the present!

There must…

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which..."

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:58:44 +0900

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown our your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”

- Steve Jobs, Commencement address, Stanford University, June 12, 2005 (via courtbean)

Epicurely: connecting people through food

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:26:00 +0900

Epicurely: connecting people through food:

Awesome inaugural blog post by my co-founder Santiago @SirTeno capturing the essence of our over-arching mission at Epicurely.

Rock on!

Food touches all of us

Wherever I happen to be, I’ve found that people are genuinely happy to share their food traditions and customs. People have emotional connections with food that run deep. These connections are part of who we are. They are part of our personal and cultural identity….

More…:

patternmining: Yoga Tennis available on Amazon

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:51:50 +0900

patternmining:

Yoga Tennis available on Amazon

"Strong personalities distort the information field around them."

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:31:16 +0900

“Strong personalities distort the information field around them.”

- David Brooks (via underpaidgenius)

microwalrus: 194/365 (by minato)

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:29:08 +0900

microwalrus:

194/365 (by minato)

Daily Patricia: The Coming Digital Future The Next New President Will Face

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:24:27 +0900

Daily Patricia: The Coming Digital Future The Next New President Will Face:

patriciahandschiegel:

The next presidential candidate is going to face something none other has previously:

A new world connected by a single platform (the internet), which is now in position as the world’s dominant information delivery and communications infrastructure.

Every country has had print media, telephone…

tataraseitetsu: detlog: (via Viena no tām mazajām patiesībām....

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:07:20 +0900

tataraseitetsu:

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(via Viena no tām mazajām patiesībām. on Twitpic)

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