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It's you and me
I saw this video about an incredible plane that can fly on solar power alone, and is even able to do so at night, created by a medical doctor with a big vision, and it touched me deeply. I then tweete…
Shake-ups and habit bumps
7 months of daily (that is, five-and-a-half days per week) yoga practice, of which the last 5 months were at 4am every morning, is now over. Last day was today. The yoga shala will be closed for the n…
Apple, the jilted lover
John Siracusa has a very interesting take on the relationships between the different players in the mobile industry:
Finally, there’s Apple, the jilted lover, feverishly working to eliminate any depe…
Automation is there to free up time for the human touch
Derek Sivers has a great take on the human touch in tech startups:
Ah! I get it. I smiled and pointed to my ear.
“No software. I just listen to everything that comes in, and recommend other good stuf…
INSIGHT: The fact that my small self feels unworthy doesn't mean I'm unworthy
One of my life lessons is low self-worth, coupled by a feeling that I'm not successful but that in order to be okay I have to be successful.
When that cocktail sets in, it's really hard for me to see …
INSIGHT: It's not the advice that's useful, it's what it does to you
When someone gives you advice, particularly startup advice, it's not the advice itself that's typically useful. You can't just take someone else's idea and run with it. You have to make it your own. Y…
Trust, vision, and congruent behavior
David Heinemeier Hansson on the 37signals blog:
A star environment is based on trust, vision, and congruent behavior. Make people proud to work where they work by involving them in projects that matt…
Love the unlovable
In my session with Gay Hendricks last week, he told me to go on a mission to find all of the unlovable parts of myself and others, and love them anyway. I'm finding ample opportunity to practice that …
What are you afraid of?
When we experience pain, that pain fossilizes as fear. Now we're afraid of doing the thing that hurt in the past. Over time we accumulate more and more pain, our fear grows, and we end up living in a …
Founders have emotions too and that's a good thing
When I was raising my first round, it fell apart because an A-list investor who had given us a verbal commitment backed out. He did this because he had heard from his friend, wh…