March 2011
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Going Old School
My iphone is now my banjo tuner (no service contract). My blackberry is left at home when I go out at night. I long for horses and being on a ranch. Also in the middle of reading “Super Sad True Love Story” by Gary Shteyngart (Buy It Here) which is confirming all my worst suspicions about the direction we’re heading. Technology is ceasing to become an enabler of human life and...
June 2010
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Taking Risks, the Art of Failing, and God
My co-founder Josh and I attended a Columbia University Business School class on Entrepreneurship. RightsCube was one of the invited guests, along with PayPerks and FSA-Store - two other Columbia grad ventures.
When we got to the panel section the professor - Murray Low - asked the panel what they thought about failure. How we as entrepreneurs think about failing, taking risks, and what sort of...
May 2010
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Silver Medallion - Slave (The Girls Can Hear Us...
Listen on @hypem http://awe.sm/55oyS
Beyond the Curve
Great article with some quotes by boot-strapped founders.
The world doesn’t need another “localization” app or twitter client. Think beyond the curve! Whenever people disagree with my ideas or vision I know I’m on the right path. Think like the herd and you’ll get trampled. Thinking beyond the curve is the only way to be truly disruptive and visionary.
Beyond the...
April 2010
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The Case For The Fat Startup
By Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz
“Here is my central argument. There are only two priorities for a start-up: Winning the market and not running out of cash. Running lean is not an end. For that matter, neither is running fat. Both are tactics that you use to win the market and not run out of cash before you do so. By making “running lean” an end, you may lose your opportunity to win the...
The Essential Man: Movie Style: 8 1/2 (1963) →
Film: 8 1/2 Year: 1963 Director: Federico Fellini Costume Director: Piero Gherardi & Leonor Fini (Uncredited) Style: Forget The Godfather, if you want to learn how to style like an Italian, 8 1/2 is the movie to watch. Pure eye wear porn. Classic Italian looks on men. Tailored suits….
“The most successful journalists have their own unique brand and circle of...”
– VandeHei, Politico’s executive editor
WatchRonald Reagan and James Dean in The Dark, Dark Hours, an episode from the General Electric Theater show.
are you fucking kidding me →
love it.
(via richtong)
Critics' Picks: 'Brazil'
A. O. Scott looks back at Terry Gilliam’s sprawling dystopian science fiction film about repression.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/04/16/movies/1247467633558/critics-picks-brazil.html
Curb Your Enthusiasm Renewed for Eighth Season
4/20/10 at 2:45 PM
Photo: Courtesy of HBO
Confirmed: HBO has renewed Curb Your Enthusiasm for another go-round, with the show’s usual ten episodes expected to air sometime next year. Says Larry David, “After much soul searching — and by the way, it was nowhere to be found — I have decided to do another season ofCurb.” Cue the carnival music. [Live Feed/HR]
By: Edith...
“You better be on a mission from god or don’t go on the mission.”
– Bob Pittman
Fifteen Films to See at the Tribeca Film Festival
See the slideshow here
From NY Magazine.
oldhollywood:
Edith Piaf - La Foule
English...
"The sky, high above Earth, was purplish black"
I am often awed when I hear life stories of great explorers like Simons. After all, what are any of our accomplishments relative to soaring 19 miles above the earth and heralding an era of space travel? These thoughts push me to reach for ever greater heights…
David Simons, Who Flew High on Eve of Space Age, Dies at 87
Top 5 Movies I Want to See
1. Kick Ass 2. Death at a Funeral (I love Tracy Jordan) 3. The Secret in Their Eyes 4. Greenberg 5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
Liberty Magazine: a weekly for everybody
This venture is awesome: A Magazine, Long Gone, Is Given Digital CPR
“From Fiction to Non Fiction, our Storyhunters have collected thousands of the most acclaimed articles and stories in the genre of sports, entertainment, crime, adventure and mystery from the 20th century. All by the hottest writers and personalities of the time. Stories that continue to grab the headlines…and never...
“I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.”
– Diamond David Lee Roth
Keats' 5 odes
Bonus points if you can name the fifth ode that Keats wrote in the Spring of 1819. The others were “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode to Psyche”.
Thanks Wikipedia Article of the Day.
Hint: apparently this one is about laziness. Though I haven’t read it yet.
“I can say I hope it will be worth what I give up
If I could stand up mean for...”
– Listen to Santigold here
Embracing a Life of Solitude: NYT
One day? Maybe….
Read the article here
“FOR the last 16 years, Nick Fahey has been living on an island in the San Juan archipelago north of Puget Sound, in Washington state, where his only full-time companion is a 26-year-old quarter horse called Ig. Mr. Fahey, 67, lives in a cabin on 100 wooded acres that has been in his family since 1930; it has no refrigerator, but there is...
Harper Blynn: acoustic for free on Itunes
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Harper Blynn
Just went to the Living Room on Ludlow tonight. This place is awesome. The band playing was Harper Blynn and they were fantastic. In another life I should have been an A&R man and would have signed these guys on the spot.
Listen to one song here