Likes & Launch: Archive

“Q: What’s the most exciting part about joining a startup?
A: I can only speak from my own experience. The most exciting thing is that I’ve grown so much faster in the past 14 months. I find myself becoming more resourceful. I have more ideas when it comes to getting stuff done, and I learned it through getting stuff done everyday in the last 14 months.”—

This. This is what I miss. (via viiv)

Truth.

Jun 27, 20125 notes

Jun 26, 2012

“Diamandis: As I watched what small teams could accomplish with powerful, change-the-world technology, it struck me that the world’s biggest challenges are also its biggest market opportunities. Multi-hundred-billion-dollar industries will form at the leading edge of exponentially developing technologies. Think about AI and robotics. Each one of these fields will displace and reinvent existing billion-dollar industries. We’re on the verge of reinventing life. In the next five years, people will program living systems the way we program computers today. I became utterly convinced that abundance is where we’re going to end up. That’s the direction we’ve been heading for 100 or 200 years. A Maasai tribesman in Kenya today has better mobile communications than President Reagan had 25 years ago. If they’re on a smartphone, they have access to more information than President Clinton did 15 years ago. Their Google is as good as Larry Page’s.”—

Need some inspiration? Think bigger.

X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Has His Eyes on the Future | Wired Science | Wired.com

Jun 26, 2012

“I realize that I am blessed to have been born in the late 1950s instead of the early 1930s, as my mother was, or the beginning of the 20th century, as my grandmothers were. My mother built a successful and rewarding career as a professional artist largely in the years after my brothers and I left home—and after being told in her 20s that she could not go to medical school, as her father had done and her brother would go on to do, because, of course, she was going to get married. I owe my own freedoms and opportunities to the pioneering generation of women ahead of me—the women now in their 60s, 70s, and 80s who faced overt sexism of a kind I see only when watching Mad Men, and who knew that the only way to make it as a woman was to act exactly like a man. To admit to, much less act on, maternal longings would have been fatal to their careers.”—

Magazine - Why Women Still Can’t Have It All - The Atlantic

The first modern women in the United States who dealt with sexism in the workplace, discrimination and lack of opportunities, those women, those brave women, are still alive. Thank them.

(And yes, this is an important note from the author: I am well aware that the majority of American women face problems far greater than any discussed in this article. I am writing for my demographic—highly educated, well-off women who are privileged enough to have choices in the first place.)

Jun 22, 2012

#women #changetheratio

“Knowledge becomes obsolete incredibly fast. The continuing professional education of adults is the No.1 industry in the next 30 years."—Peter Drucker”—“Re-framing Capitalism” | tompeters!

Jun 20, 20122 notes

Incline HQ + Veterans + IT = Transition

unfubarred:

Spoke with Founder of Incline HQ today. GREAT startup to give 6 week intensive computer programming courses to Veterans with companies sponsoring and hiring Veterans at the end of the course.

I’m looking to mentor.

If you are an employer who is interested in sponsoring or a veteran looking to transition to civilian life:

http://inclinehq.com/

Susanne has an amazing story to tell. She wrote a book, follow her and then share your thoughts on Incline!

Jun 20, 20126 notes

“Scientists have given a new name to the deaths that occur in surgery after something goes wrong—whether it is an infection or some bizarre twist of the stomach. They call them a “failure to rescue.” More than anything, this is what distinguished the great from the mediocre. They didn’t fail less. They rescued more.”—Atul Gawande: Failure and Rescue : The New Yorker

Jun 12, 20122 notes

“Remind someone of the life they wanted before they started making compromises.”—

Julien Smith

Homework assignment III.

Jun 11, 201222 notes

#inspire #Julien Smith

“We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable. That leave you with the sense that that’s the only possible solution that makes sense.”—Jonathan Ive interview: Apple’s design genius is British to the core - Telegraph

Jun 8, 20121 note

“The things that you build in the next decade are going to cost people, likely millions of people, maybe a billion people depending on the networks where you hitch your respective wagons, they are going to cost a lot of people a lot of time. Trillions of heartbeats spent in interaction.”—

Good heaven on earth, this essay is so utterly good. Paul Ford addressed the graduating students from the MFA Interaction Design course at SVA. Contents Magazine published his words as Ten Timeframes. And now I languish painfully somewhere between developing a huge crush on a wonderful writer and cultivating pure fury that someone should write and think so beautifully. Read the piece. Just read it.

[Story via Christopher Butler.]

(via thoughtyoushouldseethis)

Jun 7, 201229 notes

“Viki had come up with a concept of loading drama shows onto their website and built tools for “fan-subbers” to translate the show into other languages. At the time (several years ago) they were translating a 30-minute drama to something like 20 languages in less than 48 hours. Turns our there are armies of people who enjoy building status amongst their friends by translating shows better / faster. At first this was hard to believe – that thousands of people engaged in translation as a sport / for fun. But then thinking about Wikipedia, Yelp and other UGC sites I realized that people build a sense of community through knowledge and accomplishments with like-minded people online. Hard for most older (non digital native) people to understand. A bit easier of a leap for bloggers, Tweeters, Quora contributors.”—

The Power of Torso TV (Why Media is Racing to the Middle)

“Build a sense of community built around knowledge and accomplishments with like-minded people online.” –> This seems more like common knowledge through Twitter, Quora and even Foursquare tips but I wonder what the next wave of internet innovations will teach us about human behavior.

Jun 7, 2012

Jun 3, 2012

“At least Thiel’s fantasies are aimed at improving the world. “It seems like we’ve not been thinking about the right issues for a long time,” he said. “I actually think it is a big step just to ask the question ‘What does one need to do to make the U.S. a better place?’ That’s where I’m weirdly hopeful, in spite of the fact that a lot of things aren’t going perfectly these days. There is a very cathartic crisis that’s gone on, and it’s not clear where it’s going to go. But at least everyone knows things are rotten. We’re in a much better place than when things were rotten and everyone thought things were great.””—Peter Thiel’s Rise to Wealth and Libertarian Futurism : The New Yorker

Jun 3, 20121 note

“If the empty chair is the ultimate boss at Amazon, then Bezos is its billionaire enforcer, the guardian of what he calls the “culture of metrics” that tries to give that inanimate object a loud, clear voice. Amazon tracks its performance against about 500 measurable goals. Nearly 80% relate to customer objectives. Some Amazonians try to reduce out-of-stock merchandise. Others race to build a bigger library of downloadable movies. Intricate algorithms turn one group of shoppers’ past habits into custom recommendations for new customers. Hourly bestseller lists identify what’s hot. Weekly reviews keep track of who is on course—and where corrective attention is needed.”—Inside Amazon’s Idea Machine: How Bezos Decodes The Customer - Forbes

Jun 2, 2012

Jun 2, 20122 notes

#charity #Jazzercise