August 2009
20 posts
Always re-examine your assumptions.
Read Dambisa Moyo’s “Dead Aid” for a wake up call on the economic circumstances of Africa. http://bit.ly/BfFwn
Am I the only one who found wear-your-pajamas-to-school days extremely awkward and unpleasant?
There are too many damn pennies. http://bit.ly/1HEL1C
Megan McArdle: “Fascism is a particular thing, not the amalgam of everything you happen not to like.”
The only thing worse than bureaucracy is non-profit bureaucracy. Nothing quite as easy as spending others’ money on bloated solutions.
I think the world might be ending: we made our bed. http://twitpic.com/f3x9b
I really hate the “new” (black) MacBook Pro keyboards. Like, a lot. Fire and death and endless gnashing of teeth. They’re terrible.
Mission Weather Report: Cold, overcast, dark, smelly.
The best ideas are never obvious and the best policies are never popular.
Breaking ground on a new version of my site. At 6am.
Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.
What if patents only lasted 5 years?
#winMBP @taptaptap is giving away a $5999 ColorWare STEALTH MacBook Pro to celebrate launching Convert for iPhone! http://taptaptap.com/+Gon
“This is The Good for everyone.” vs. “Lots of options; let the good float to the top by giving everyone a choice.”
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.” describes American leftism vs. libertarianism. Perfect Policy X vs. good, if messy, results.
MG Siegler seems to be the only serious journalist at TechCrunch.
I really wish we could explode Textile and erase it from our collective memories. Terrible technology.
Annoyed that emotion so often trumps or taints logical reasoning, even in matters of profit and loss.
In beautiful San Diego, subtly making long-term plans to move back.