December 2011
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My father, himself a dedicated runner, never told me how far I had to run or how...
– Gretchen Rubin - The Happiness Project I’m enjoying this book. I particularly liked this line. The hardest part of the run (or the metaphor here of getting started) is getting started. However, once you step outside and are prepared to run the run itself becomes inevitable. The act of putting...
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The Baker's Dozen
This is my first time keeping an “official” top ten albums list for the year. Much thanks to Dan for inspiring me to do so. I really enjoyed maintaining it and watching albums slide up and down and even out of the top 10. And that’s what these are – the 13 albums that I really loved but for one reason or another didn’t make my top 10. (FYI: I’ll post an album a day in...
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Strong Opinions @marksbirch: Getting Promoted Too... →
marksbirch:
bijan:
“He’s a star. Thank god he’s on the team”.
“He’s not scaling, it’s time to find his replacement”.
I’ve heard that line from too many CEOs about someone on their management team.
In a hyper growth company, those two sentences can be just a year or two apart…
I hate the term “scaling” when applied to people. Companies scale, technologies scale, but that does not really...
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You know, 50 bucks may not sound like a lot, but I tell you what, at the right...
– Not about startups, but it could be.
PS- read the whole story.
(via brycedotvc)
Great story! And actually $50 can be a lot for a startup. My wife works for Pro Mujer. They offer micro finance loans to woman in Latin America to start businesses. Their loans are typically in the range of $50 to...
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Automatic For The People. →
extensionfm:
Sharing from exfm to your favorite social sites just got a lot easier. Automatic in fact. Now, when you Love a song on exfm you can have that song automatically post to Twitter, Facebook or Tumblr as well. If you want to enable auto-posting you’ll need to turn it on (it’s off by default). Simply visit Settings > Social. Then check which services you want enabled for auto-posting....
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Shockingly Unshocking: Two Congressional Staffers... →
Astonishingly abhorrent. And sadly not surprising at all.
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