12 days ago
deusx : Warren Ellis » On Teleportation - "Teleportation should be a matter of simply proving you’re somewhere else."
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13 days ago
deusx : ideas are just a multiplier of execution - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog - "It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions."
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1 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund: "A web-based Excel/database hybrid." Please make it versioned and multi-user
Linkorama : Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - a combination of relentless predator upon the obsolete and benevolent solver of the world's problems. As ways of making money go, that's pretty good. Startups are often ruthless competitors, but they're competing in a game won by making what people want.
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1 month ago
deusx : I had that idea years ago! - (37signals) - "Ideas on their own are just not that important. It’s incredibly rare that someone comes up with an idea so unique, so protectable that the success story writes itself. Most ideas are nothing without execution."
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deusx : FreakAngels » Interlude 02 - "I flood my poor ageing head with information. Any information. Lots of it. And I let it all slosh around in the back of my brain, in the part normal people use for remembering bills, thinking about sex and making appointments to wash the dishes.&quo
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2 month ago
gleuschk : Your New Kitchen | Ask Metafilter - What do you wish you had done to your kitchen when you had the chance?
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4 month ago
veen : Pixar’s Brad Bird on Fostering Innovation - GigaOM - “imagination-based companies to succeed in the long run, making money can’t be the focus.”
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4 month ago
deusx : Burst Fiction - Caution - "I fell for hours. This is not hyperbole. I was not in space. Not technically."
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5 month ago
veen : I'm Not There - Movie - Review - New York Times - "A certain kind of artist will comb through the old stuff that’s lying around — the tall tales and questionable memories, the yellowing photographs and scratched records — looking for glimpses of a possible future."
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5 month ago
veen : Redeye VC: I Don't Know... - Josh Kopelman on the confidence of not knowing something. I feel the same way when I talk to designers - You don't need to know every answer, just assure me you know how you might find out.
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6 month ago
adamrg : Learning is Change. » Blog Archive » The Man with a Plan. - Our schools have become museums... filled with artifacts of antiquated systems.
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deusx : "your ideas" "subscribe to your newsletter" - Yahoo! Search Results - "Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"
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7 month ago
jonhicks : Ballet Courses - One of the reasons I love FFFFOUND so much.
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7 month ago
veen : "Better than free" by Kevin Kelly - "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."
Jeremy Zawodny : The Technium - The Technium: Kevin Kelly has astute things to say about a world in which many things are free and abundant... how do you make money?
43folders : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."
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7 month ago
Linkorama : new software pricing models - Software pricing models are try-outs for the future, just like social software on the Web.
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10 month ago
veen : A Brief Message: Arrogance and Humility, by Clay Shirky - "Arrogance without humility is a recipe for high-concept irrelevance; humility without arrogance guarantees unending mediocrity."
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11 month ago
WillPate : ConceptShare - Design collaboration made easy - I work here now :)
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11 month ago
deusx : Complete Your First Book with these 9 Simple Writing Habits - Dumb Little Man - "If writing a novel or non-fiction book is something you've dreamed of, the only way to make that dream a reality is by putting it into action -- day by day."
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13 month ago
veen : Eternity for Atheists, by Jim Holt - "First, imagine what form of immortality would be best; then live your life right now as though it were true."
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14 month ago
veen : Hiring is Obsolete - "When a startup gets bought for 2 or 3 million six months in, it's really more of a hiring bonus than an acquisition."
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15 month ago
adamrg : The Continuous Environmental Scan - Where Do You Get All Your Ideas?
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16 month ago
veen : Talking to everyone: the framing of science and technology « Jon Udell - "How do you talk to everyone about the transformative benefits of the technologies we’re so excited about, in ways that don’t make people flip the bozo switch and tune you out?"
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17 month ago
veen : On happiness, "better" and the ludic « Speedbird - "I do not believe that products and services should aim at making my life “better,” because with very few exceptions, I just don’t trust designers to understand what “better” means to me."
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17 month ago
Linkorama : Web Services Coming To Twitter - Direct messages made accessible through the API, creating a new command line
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