For a whole variety of reasons (birthdays, my brother’s extended visit, decision to leave NY post-graduation) Krissa and I have been making a serious effort to enjoy New York over the past few months. I’ll take the liberty of treating the blog as a personal diary (sorry casual readers), and put here a list of [...]
So… I spent most of last week in Redmond, on the Microsoft campus, attending the fourth ‘Microsoft Tech Summit.’ The name is sort of misleading. It does describe the subject matter fairly well- the presentations were mostly pretty technical, and they were very much about Microsoft. And it was summit-sized- maybe 40 people.
What the name [...]
Now I am 30! by Dan Morelle. License:
Trying not to be too reflective today. Ungodly drilling noise in apartment below mine is helping with that. :) Thanks to everyone who made the last 30 years so interesting and fun; hope for more of the same in the next 30.
We’ll miss you, Aunt Sara. I’d say ‘Rest in Peace’, but I hope you’re dancing or driving fast, not resting…
Via Scalzi, Patrick Nielsen Hayden explains why he voted for Obama in the primary, capturing my critical thought perfectly:
I’m for Obama knowing perfectly well that, as Bill Clinton suggested, it’s a “roll of the dice”. A roll of the dice for Democrats, for progressives, for those of us who’ve fought so hard against the [...]
Hope - Obama (Shepard Fairey poster) by Steve Rhodes. License:
Today is a unique day in my lifetime; a primary day where almost 1/2 of states are voting, but where the outcome is still very much in doubt. If you’re in one of those states, whether or not you agree with me about Obama, find [...]
Hipster PDA and GTD notes, tighter crop by Teo. License:
So, this was an all-too-common pattern in my life, prior to about 18 months ago:
get busy
lose some or all track of what is on my plate
feel guilty about not understanding what was on my plate; and never say no to more projects, in part because [...]
… food poisoning, or something a lot like it. And today was supposed to be a fun-ish friday… blah.
NYPD @ Times Square, by Web Phenomenon Joi Ito, used under CC-BY
Had a drink with a friend after my patents exam today. There was a van with a loudspeaker outside.
The goal of the van and loudspeaker were to remind everyone that a murder had taken place there the weekend before, and that if they had [...]
[Today was the last day of classes- so after this I crawl into my exam hole for two weeks.]
The more mobile startups get, the harder it would be to start new silicon valleys. If startups are mobile, the best local talent will go to the real Silicon Valley…
–Paul Graham
I love New York, [...]
