Look At That Idiot With That Thing On His Face
Look At That Idiot With That Thing On His Face: HTC has introduced what many are laughing at, which is a companion device to a very large phone. A phone that solidly would be considered a “phablet”, a...
View ArticleHigh Highs, Low Lows
On December 6th 2012 I left Brazil for San Francisco to answer a call. The universe had been reaching out to me and inviting me to do something more, or at the very least different, for weeks, and it...
View ArticleThe Stacy Doctrine
The Stacy Doctrine: I’m naked now. In a very metaphorical sense, but it’s true. Through the crazy emotional journey of fundraising, I’d slowly started putting on someone else’s clothes. Someone from...
View ArticleA New Baby
A New Baby: There are many satisfactions to being involved with product and software development. There are also many dissatisfactions. The universe is determined to ship as little code as possible. As...
View ArticleWhere To Draw The Line: What Is A PC?
Over the last couple years we have seen lots of people weigh in on whether tablets should be counted as PCs. However, we’ve seen a slow shift towards research firms adding tablets together to...
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Google is shutting Google Reader down. I’m going to miss...
Google is shutting Google Reader down. I’m going to miss it so much. I’ve starred nearly 1000 articles as favorites that I’ll never be able to really have now. Hurts. In fact I just saved another one...
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The more I think about it and the more I see it and experience...
The more I think about it and the more I see it and experience it, the mote I’m convinced that mobile devices are converging around one device. Laptops are becoming more like tablets, and at the same...
View ArticleStartups Are Like Friends
Sometimes you love them. You can’t get enough of them. You wake up Monday morning and can’t believe how lucky you are to have them.Sometimes you hate them. They take and they take and they take until...
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stephthomas33: FOUR Four years ago {tomorrow} McKay and I tied...
stephthomas33:FOURFour years ago {tomorrow} McKay and I tied the knot. Four years. It feels like a lifetime ago, and yet it feels like we’re babies still. Babies with babies. In four years we’ve lived...
View ArticleDebunking Business
What is business? I think it could be classically defined as the exchange of value. In the movies when the top secret weapon is exchanged for someone’s beloved pet, the classic line, “pleasure doing...
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The Things We do To Change The World
I read a great post by Mark Suster a few weeks ago about always asking for what you really want. Just today I had to buy an iPhone case at the mall and when I was told they were $20 and up, I found the...
View ArticleStretching Is Learning
One of the original Baby.com.br team members was in San Francisco today and in telling him the story of how First Opinion got started he said something that struck me as an inalienable truth: you can’t...
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Press check for @firstopinion’s handmade letterpress thank...
Press check for @firstopinion’s handmade letterpress thank you card for our earliest beta users. Thanks everyone! It’s been the most rewarding journey with you. (at Dependable Letterpress)
View ArticleBaby Weight
So much was right about my last startup, Baby.com.br. They say so much in business is luck and after Baby I’m inclined to believe them. We had the right business at the right time with a team that knew...
View ArticleManifesto For 2014
The city breathes. It inhales with hissing busses, dripping coffee, and the foreign tongues of conference attendees. It exhales with the crisp, cool air blocked by coat collars and scarves. You feel it...
View ArticleUniversity of The Possible
Twenty Thirteen was a university of the possible for me. It wrapped up the way you wrap up lunch with an old friend. Awkwardly. You both loved it, but neither knows how to say goodbye.Twenty Twelve...
View ArticleWhat Humanity Does Next
When I was first designing and building at PoolTables.com in 2006, 1 in 100 websites I actually used impressed me. In fact, I had a bookmark list back then of websites that really blew me away and that...
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Serial
I am sitting on the couch just now trying to collect my thoughts on Serial. For those unacquainted, it’s a bizarrely intriguing weekly podcast, which is modern parlance for radio show. It follows the...
View ArticleWhat They Did Yesterday Afternoon, by Warsan Shire
What They Did Yesterday Afternoon, by Warsan Shire: riotpieces:what they did yesterday afternoon by warsan shirethey set my aunts house on firei cried the way women on tv dofolding at the middlelike a...
View ArticleBuy Your Own Apples: Building a Startup The Hard Way
I love apples. I prefer the tart green ones to the sweet red ones, but if it’s an apple I’ll devour it. On a given day I’ll eat three of four of them. They are meaty enough to be a really filling snack...
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