February 2012
38 posts
“The difference has to do with how money gets spent in both industries and in...”
– Gabriel Rossman in the National Review Online
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Entrepreneur Designers: Week 2: Customer... →
entrepreneurdesigners:
Week two focused on the customer development process and running experiments.
The Customer Development process, developed by Steve Blank, offers a framework for product development that can feel familiar to designers trained in empathetic human-centered design. (Though Blank uses Customer Development to bring the rigor of the scientific method to the art of starting a...
“All online labor markets have to find ways to help workers credibly demonstrate...”
– john horton, the chief economist at odesk
“There are a whole bunch of core needs that make us human. One of them, as...”
– jeremy levine on pinterest
“Didn’t hunt
Didn’t kill
Came here
And sat still”
– George Dyson in 1974, as relayed by Kenneth Bower’s The Startship and the Canoe
“There is only one chain store on the Bedford commercial district; it’s a...”
– ah, post-colonial williamsburg
Entrepreneur Designers: Week 1: Perspectives →
entrepreneurdesigners:
When Christina and I began the process of designing the course, we came up with a few principles to help us think about the content, structure, and goals of the class:
1. Networks are a foundational concept.
As a society, we are undergoing one of the most significant macro-level shifts in our…
gary’s recap of week 1 of our entrepreneurial design class in...
“Twas the night before start-up and all through the net, not a packet was moving;...”
– RFC 968 by Vint Cerf (via entrepreneurdesigners)
“The existence of this deep back catalog [of longform journalism] is great for...”
– matt yglesias on The Digitial Back Catalog
Senator Claire McCaskill: A Cockroach and a... →
clairecmc:
Congratulations to all of you who decided to get involved with your government. You have had a real impact on the legislative process. As I watched my Twitter account explode, I couldn’t help but grin. This is how it’s supposed to work. Thousands of people, not lobbyists or organized special…
go tumblr go!
N Korea's Koryolink passes 800k subs
Koryolink, the joint venture between Egypt’s Orascom Telecom and state-owned Korea Post and Telecom, lifted its 3G subscriber base by 170% in the 12 months ending in September.
The network now consists of 453 base stations covering 94% of the population of roughly 24 million, Orascom revealed in a quarterly report. But the network only covers 14% of the territory of North Korea.
The joint...
“The biggest drop in segregation over the past decade has been in places that had...”
– segregation in american cities might be falling - and we might have payday and subprime lenders to thank.
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“Many presumed that these sanctions did not worry the generals because they could...”
– the paragraph from the economist’s myanmar article about which i’d most like to know more.
“Envisioning America as a nation of burrito-folders employing advanced...”
– So much to enjoy about Matt Yglesias waxing poetic about Chipotle for Slate:
a feel-good story in the downtrodden economy
23.7% growth in 2011, year 18 of the company’s life
Chopt getting name dropped
a brief digression into the science of sous-vide cooking
capital/labor tradeoffs being...
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Thoughts on Hollywood's economics →
I’ve recently been trading long emails with a friend about the economics of Hollywood. It’s a somewhat-timely issue to the tech industry, and I’ve enjoyed thinking through what might be going on.
poetry of commerce
what will arise in the form of infinitely repeatable, unregulated surrogate objects churned out by desktop factories, selon Bruce Sterling’s Kiosk
“A year ago, Ohio ranked 48th in job creation. We trailed only Michigan and...”
– Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in his 2012 State of the State address. (via officialssay)
cc Caci
(via jericsinger)
we had steel! and tires! and heavy industry! which is all, of course, to say we need a great many new things in ohio. call me crazy, but i’m more bullish on the things that...
Teammates →
bobulate:
Somewhere among E.B. White and Adam Gopnik there is Cord Jefferson:
I’ve never felt more important than when I lived in New York. I was poor and my work was neither very good nor very well-read, and yet every day I’d wake up in my 10 by 10 room, its window looking out over my building’s rusted trashcans, and somehow think I’d achieved another great victory. …. Eventually my fellow New...
Joonseo Bae: I'm an introvert →
Leadership styles go in and out of fashion. The more top-down corporate-leadership style embodied by Jack Welch—think extroversion—gave way to a more horizontal, even introverted style that involves more cooperation and listening. In politics, there was a similar transition, from President…
In the New York Times, Sheryl Sandberg Is Lucky,... →
I AM SO GLAD SOMEONE WROTE THIS ARTICLE
Also:
If you do quick math, the $1.6bn comp package Sandberg now has was worth ~$300mm when it was granted by Facebook’s board in March 2008.
The board hired her for COO role with a $300mm compensation package because they thought she could build a massive business at Facebook, including a supporting organization.
She did it — and is now...
Entrepreneur Designers: Welcome to Entrepreneurial... →
entrepreneurdesigners:
Welcome to the official blog of Entrepreneurial Design, a course from the School of Visual Arts’ MFA in Interaction Design program taught by Christina Cacioppo and Gary Chou.
The purpose of Entrepreneurial Design is to provide a time and space for students to think broadly about what they…
“You can’t fall in love with a Google search.”
– Taylor Swift in Vogue. every somewhat-serious article i read about taylor swift starts with the reporter assuming she’ll be daft — and ends, basically, with the reporter concluding she might be smarter than the rest of us.
“The Internet remains the best medium for untrammeled experimentation, but only...”
– The Jan 23 NYMag (yes, I’m behind .. ) had a short column about Code Year and Codeacdemy, which I found interesting and misguided –- as I find most of NYMag’s writing about technology
“For decades, futurists have dreamed of the “universal book”: a handheld reading...”
– Steven Johnson on the rise of the tablet
“The massive social networking site — which was launched in an undergraduate dorm...”
– the symmetry of eight years from launch to ipo is pretty fantastic.
“So in America civil liberties are a mixed bag. My feeling is that I agree police...”
– The Economist. so good!
January 2012
35 posts
What would that girl in the polaroid be doing now?
“That’s true enough. So what about the long term – is it time to boost...”
– tim harford, you’re just great.
“There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have...”
– Interview: David Karp, founder of Tumblr, on realising his dream (via joshuanguyen)
the perpetual goal, second edition.
“Chess is a relative meritocracy, with clear standards for performance and...”
– i think i mostly believe tyler cowen here.
