Don’t be a startup expert
Great nugget from Paul Graham’s latest piece “Before the Startup”: The way to succeed in a startup is not to be an expert on startups, but to be an expert on your users…
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Street View in the future
Google Street View is pretty amazing. Here is the corner of Adams and Spruce in Scranton — the same corner Coalwork is on today and from where I’m writing this post. But…
On daily blogging
Lockhard Steele (how does someone have a name that awesome?), on daily blogging: Harder than it looks. Fell off the wagon hard last week in the depths of Eater bug-crushing. Still trying…
Shanghai By Mobile
Brandon Page on Storehouse: This last trip, I put my pro camera down, and ran around the city with my iPhone. This is the first time I have shown this collection outside…
Tom Hickey
Tom Hickey, of Cork Ireland, on his personal blog in a post titled Stop feeling sorry and start living: I write a blog that’s mainly about my life coming to terms with…
New Photos from Mars
Holy cow, a Space Bit! Gorgeous photos of Mars coming in from ISRO’s recent mission on the cheap.
Being in the paper
Over the years I’ve been in the paper a few times for various reasons. Mostly good. However, something that I’ve learned is that you never really know how you’re going to be…
Clay Shirky on multi-tasking
As if I needed more fodder to convince myself as to why I shut off all notifications on my phone, tablet, and computer. Clay Shirky wrote an excellent piece on Medium about…
Ello deleted
I went from bullish to puzzled, back to bullish, and now downright miffed by the messaging roller coaster that Ello is on. I think we all want to see someone, anyone, make…
Same thing, different day
I agree so hard on this. Brent Simmons: I’ve often had the thought that our social networks are the same thing every day, with just slightly different details. When I skip them…
Not an iPad nano
Jason Snell, on his still smells-like-a-new-car blog Six Colors regarding whether or not the iPhone 6 Plus is like a small iPad: When Apple announced the iPhone 6 Plus on Sept. 9, I…
Founders Grid Productivity Hacks
It was nice to be included in Founders Grid’s list of productivity hacks. When they asked me what productivity hacks I had for other founders this is what I wrote: Productivity hacks…
The death rattle of old Twitter
Can you hear it? I can. Read this, as reported on the very great GigaOm: Twitter’s timeline is organized in reverse chronological order… but this “isn’t the most relevant experience for a…
It feels good when people say nice things about your hard work
When people are willing to talk or write about your product it is a good thing. It doesn’t matter if what they write is positive or negative — if they write negatively…
Jess Brown takes the challenge
Jess Brown on taking the challenge to write on his blog: Hopefully my writing will bring an audience and an audience will bring opportunities. It does and will Jess.
Hashtag ShareRSS
Marco Arment’s comment on his blog a few days ago got me thinking… we should be doing a better job to promote RSS. So here is one way to try doing it….
Listen closely and you’ll learn something
Never take for granted the fact that everyone you meet can teach you something. Here are just a few recent examples of things that I’ve learned in the last few days: Last…
The longblog
There is so much awesome going on in the resurgence of personal blogging. I can’t stop reading and linking and smiling. Brent Simmons: My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it…
What blogs were like before it became “professional”
Adam Kuban, who was behind the original New York pizza blog Slice, in an interview by Ben Leventhal: I miss the early days when you could just get up a post about…
Writing mostly badly but more often
Elizabeth Spiers, one of the founders of Gawker, on her newly revitalized personal blog: So in the interest of rejecting later and discriminating less severely, here is my contract with you, the…
What I did this weekend
Kyle and I spent the weekend setting up the first coworking space in Scranton, PA — Coalwork. We’ve been working on this for over a year. Not just us two but other…
We’re in!
Update from yesterday. She was surprised. 😉 We’re in! Coalwork, the coworking group, podcast, blog, and community that Kyle and I founded over a year ago finally has a place to call…
15 Year Anniversary
Today is my 15th Anniversary. My wife Eliza and I have known each other our entire lives — in fact, her mother was pregnant with her when she visited my mother in…
Blogging every weekday for 30 days
Who’s in for the challenge? I’ll give it a shot. Fred Wilson pointed to Lockhart Steele and Elizabeth Spiers. Spiers mentioned trying it for 30 days so I thought that was a…
SeaKayakPodcasts.com coming back Sept 1
My favorite kayaking podcast at SeaKayakPodcast.com is coming back on September 1st. Host Simon Willis: We have recorded quite a few fascinating chats and the first will be an absolute cracker. The…
Speed is the only filter in Instagram Hyperlapse
From a piece in Wired about Instagram’s new app Hyperlapse: Once you start using the app, you quickly see that replay speed itself becomes a novel, alluring tool: For pets and people,…
The golden age of Twitter is over
I said that this morning to Kyle. That the golden age of Twitter is over. I couldn’t think of a more eloquent way to put it. The Twitter we fell in love with…
Congratulate before you ask
When a new product is announced more often than not the first comment I read is someone asking for features which this new product does not have. To illustrate; if your grandmother made…
Just pick one
Shawn Blanc, on making a decision on how to get fit: Something I’ve learned over time is that when you’re facing a decision and you know you need to act, it’s often…
App rot
Marco Arment: I picked on the iPad earlier because its problem is deeper and more visible than on the iPhone today: while the iPad has most of the pricing and competitive pressure…