August 31st, 2012 4:43pm
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Why Blacksmiths are Better at Startups than You
"If you don't take money, they can't tell you what to do. That's the key to the whole thing" -Bill Cunningham
Do not reason away your vision
"If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and don't have it." - Henry Ford
Scared about making the wrong choice? You won’t ever know if you did. Cognitive dissonance won’t let you
Replace ability with effort and find a new way to play the game
No longer do you have 20 years experience. You have one year of experience, 20 times. We're moving that fast.
Play the game for the games own sake
We don't sell advice by the hour, we sell profits at discount.
I feel a child-like sense of emotion and excitement when somebody uses the "buy me a cappuccino" link on posts to send me $3.00, yet I feel no excitement actually buying my daily coffee at Starbucks. The difference comes from earning as a capitalist, but spending as a paycheck-guy. — http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/03/02/fools-and-their-money-metaphors/
style is everything
The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve currency and the eurozone in deep fiscal trouble. We have a huge public debt, dangerously neglected infrastructure, a greatly overextended system of criminal punishment, a seeming inability to come to grips with grave environmental problems such as global warming, a very costly but inadequate educational system, unsound immigration policies, an embarrassing obesity epidemic, an excessively costly health care system, a possible rise in structural unemployment, fiscal crises in state and local governments, a screwed-up tax system, a dysfunctional patent system, and growing economic inequality that may soon create serious social tensions. Our capitalist system needs a lot of work to achieve proper capitalist goals. — Richard Posner
that's a pretty good list of what we need to fix
Famous judge spikes Apple-Google case, calls patent system "dysfunctional" — Mobile Technology News
(via fred-wilson)
What do I need to do today to win tomorrow?
Our mindset shapes our beliefs and our beliefs shape our destiny.
The way innovation really happens is that you provide young people with opportunities to create on an infrastructure which allows them to hack the real world and share the results - Eben Moglen