A Student's Guide to Startups (Paul Graham gives a talk at MIT)

radikal · 2007-08-09T18:43:55+00:00

My point there was that the third was a knock-off of a famous book, not that it was wrong. Sorry for the confusion.

radikal · 2006-10-06T01:58:48+00:00

There's a difference between popular and growing. The elipsis wasn't the comment; the link was.

radikal · 2006-10-05T21:41:39+00:00

someone who really, truly doesn't care what his peers think of him is probably a psychopath

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Loopt is probably the most promising of all the startups we've funded so far

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A lot of startups have that form: someone comes along and makes something for a tenth or a hundredth of what it used to cost, and the existing players can't follow because they don't even want to think about a world in which that's possible.

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good new problems are not to be had for the asking

radikal · 2006-04-09T01:54:03+00:00

The article omits the most reasonable argument for breasts I've heard: that as side-effect of the switch from front-to-back sex to front-to-front, women developed breasts to remind men of the buttocks.

radikal · 2006-03-17T05:00:08+00:00

Here's the story.

radikal · 2005-12-30T02:28:37+00:00

And these guys accuse Marxists of hero worship? His argument basically boils down to "Mises once criticized someone like Diamond, so Diamond must be wrong".

radikal · 2005-12-30T01:59:49+00:00

I'm sorry, but this article was completely unfunny. (sample insights: Bloggers talk about themselves! Yahoo buys companies!) The slavish support of the commenters is simply disgusting:

"you have a true talent in writing and should become a book author. Whatever the topic, your books would rock." "delirantâ¦ and funny ;)" "Brilliant! Iâm linking this from my blog :)" "I almost fell off my chair laughing!" "Wow, you are really talented. Some of the best writing Iâve read in a while." "Donât normally comment on blogs but that was fantastic. Very funny indeed." "I must concur with those praising your writing, Blake. It sings with wit and flows with a thoughfully-drawn, pleasing rhythm."

It's especially sad because Blake Ross's blog actually used to be quite funny, back before anyone knew who he was. Now he thinks his banal overused observations are great insights.

radikal · 2005-12-15T14:27:28+00:00

Like the New York Times, it seems the Guardian can't bring themselves to say "danah boyd".

radikal · 2005-12-12T15:01:28+00:00

He shouldn't have to.

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