Creating wealth is not a zero-sum game, so you don’t have to stab people in the back to win.
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Paul Graham is brilliant, as usual, in this essay on:
With or With Out You.
More of U2 in Las Vegas.
U2 was incredible in Las Vegas last night. They deserve their rightful spot alongside the best bands of all time. Here’s my favorite photo of the evening, during “Ultraviolet.”
Baby baby baby, light my way…
The real question is: Why do we still store documents and data on computers like this?
This is how you can tell I’ve been really busy lately.
Holy crap, this is brilliant.
“Venezuelan designer Enrique Luis Sardi has teamed up with Italian coffee company Lavazza to create a master piece of green design: Cookie cup.” (via packaging | UQAM | Sylvain Allard)
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
— Josh Billings
In practice, then, for us when we build a service, or invest, we look closely at the use case to determine what kind of application it might become. We don’t expect any evolution, though as dreamers we hope that there will be one. Show us an application, not a platform.
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I have to agree with Andrew Weissman in his post here. Rarely can you build a platform without a killer application. Windows needed Office. The Apple II needed VisiCalc. The Mac needed Pagemaker and Photoshop. The web needed Mosaic. Facebook Platform needed Facebook. The Twitter API needed Twitter. Telsa needs the Tesla Roadster before they can build a battery platform. And on and on.
Build a killer app. Then, you can turn it into a platform.
To discover great hacks, we must always be searching for the true nature of our reality, while acknowledging that we do not currently possess the truth, and never will. Hacking is much bigger and more important than clever bits of code in a computer — it’s how we create the future.
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Paul Buchheit is brilliant and insightful. And, I feel incredibly fortunate to have the opportunity to work alongside him every day now that he has joined Facebook.
via mikehudack:
Mick is my new business hero. In this terse letter he congratulates his coworker, he sets expectations, he advises w/o directing and takes the pitfalls of the compensation issue entirely off the table. I sincerely aspire to lead/create/live like this.
