May 2012
2 posts
Everybody should learn to code, he says, because machine/human and machine/machine interaction is becoming as ubiquitous as human/human interaction. Those who don’t know how to code soon will be in the same position as those who couldn’t read or write 200 years ago.
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April 2012
3 posts
“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from...”
– John le Carré
“Don’t for a second be lulled into the notion that you are picking employees....”
– Phil Sugar
A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Phil Sugar
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“There’s this culture in the Valley of starting a company before they know what...”
– mark zuckerberg
March 2012
1 post
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“We want to build the most respected technology company in Canada”. Eric...”
– The people behind Canada’s most promising tech-startups via Globe & Mail
February 2012
2 posts
“That quid pro quo was always clear: you surrender every last detail of your life...”
– Does Facebook owe us? (via morganmissen)
January 2012
2 posts
“You can try to escape the story of your life, but you can’t. It happened… Heart...”
–
Laura Dern in Enlightened. Brilliant series.
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Reading
Reading non-fiction looks like a quiet sport but this is misleading
the reader’s mind is a ruckus of rebuttals musings and interrogations fantasies of integrating the cleverest bits into his next conversation
it is fiction that is the true repose an act of patience listening to the author scratch his pen slowly along the plot
trusting that he has invited interesting people into your...
December 2011
1 post
less stuff, more happiness
November 2011
2 posts
“There’s this culture in the Valley of starting a company before they know what...”
– – Mark Zuckerberg (via amritrichmond)
October 2011
15 posts
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too...”
“People lampoon the Occupy Wall Street movement as a bunch of marginal freaks,...”
– peggy got this right
Peggy Noonan: ‘They Won’t Care Till They’re Affected’ - WSJ.com
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“You may not be a Picasso or Mozart but you don’t have to be. Just create to...”
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“Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements...”
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“The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to...”
Meet my friend.
Ever since I was a wee one, I managed to surround myself with pretty amazing people. This has followed me into my adult life. I am extremely grateful, thankful and driven by the people I call friends. It dawned on me that a lot of my friends are creators. They build, develop, bake, style, help…the list goes on for a living. In this series, I would like to recognize those that have brought...
September 2011
12 posts
3 tags
This is why I love Oprah.
Oprah recently appeared on Facebook Live! As always, she leaves me with food for thought :)
“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make you as rich as I have become. I’d always recognized that the life for me - the calling for me - was beyond the expectation people had. I knew there was something bigger calling me.
It is possible for every person to reach what is the highest,...
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“#1 Be healthy. Are startups all about pulling all nighters and eating ramen...”
– Five Skills You Need for Startup Success, According to Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe (via davemorin)
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What makes a leader
Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. “Leadership qualities” are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. The include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor,...
August 2011
12 posts
2 tags
“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift...”
– Og Mandino
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“Step up the stairs or stare at the steps.”
– Ralph Nichols (via brit)
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese
“I don’t wanna hurt you
I don’t wanna make you sway
Like I know...”
– Sway - The Perishers
“What is an experience? Something that breaks a polite routine and for a brief...”
– YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Alain de Botton on Experiences
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