January 2011
24 posts
think on this.: shorter mubarak →
abbyjean:
i am very familiar with and sympathetic to the plight of the people
these protests have only been possible due to the freedoms i’ve allowed
protesters are a small group, removed from the ordinary egyptian citizen, and are creating chaos and fear that endanger egypt’s future
i’m firing the…
“MJ: You’re referring to Hillary Clinton’s unveiling of what you call...”
– I often dislike Mother Jones and its shoddy reporting This article about “the Tunisia Twitter Revolution” is fantastic.
This 27-Year-Old Is Making $115,000 To Be NYC's... →
So glad to see that SAI hasn’t broken its trend of commenting on a woman’s looks when they also report on her new job. Gotta focus on what’s important.
“The earlier I come to work the luckier I get.”
– JLM, super commenter
A VC: CEO Transitions
(via fred-wilson)
A few months ago, I started making it a point to get into USV before 9am on Monday mornings. It’s been an incredibly good decision.
Books of 2010
Country Driving by Peter Hessler - China’s development in three parts (The Road, The Village, The Factory) from the New Yorker’s former Beijing correspondant. It’s quite funny.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - Depressing as all get-out. I read it on a redeye back from California instead of sleeping, which was absolutely the correct choice.
Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis - Very...
2010 Travel was pretty alright
Cities in which I spent at least one evening during 2010, beside beloved NYC:
Piscataway, NJ*
Boston, MA*
Tampa, FL
Atlanta, GA
Hyde Park, NY
Washington, DC*
Boulder, CO
Wisconsin Dells, WI
Palo Alto, CA
San Francisco, CA
Columbus, OH*
Chicago, IL*
Shanghai, China
Guangzhou, China
Jakarta, Indonesia
Ubud, Indonesia
Manila, Philippines
El Nido, Philippines
* Indicates multiple...
“The theater on Main Street or the children’s museum across town should have the...”
– This idea + the Delta pricing screen from a few days ago = Groupon?
Orchids Hotel, Congo - NYTimes.com →
This is crazy. I stayed here in the summer of 2005 as a “tourist.” (There are not toursits in Eastern Congo, but I was as close to one as they came, I suppose.) I never thought I’d see Orchids in the NYTimes.
Asia's Restaurants Want Fewer Customers →
Under what conditions - if any - does a “smaller = better” hypothesis hold for web services?
It's Twitter!
Good Grapes and Bad Lobsters: Applying the Alchian and Allen Theorem
Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok
Economic Inquiry, 1995, vol. 33, issue 2, pages 253-56
Abstract: The authors consider the well-known theorem of A. Alchian and W. Allen (1964) that adding a per unit charge to the price of two substitute goods increases the relative consumption of the higher price good. The current...
“Conceivably, as one’s “online presence” becomes more integrated, the more things...”
– Self as niche market again. 2006.
“Paradoxically, the vastly increased access to underground cultural goods may...”
– Self as niche market, an article from 2006. I disagree - for the most part - but good food for thought nonetheless.
“The basic incentive would be to write material that was easy to search for. That...”
– What if all books were in Google? on Marginal Revolution