troublemaker at a thinking ape in vancouver. come in. peruse a bit. i’m sure we’ll get along swell.Tumblr (3.0; @sonsryan)http://sonsryan.com/<p>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.</p> <p>Read full post <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/05/computer-programming-for-all-a-new-standard-of-literacy.php">here</a>.</p>http://sonsryan.com/post/23440733105http://sonsryan.com/post/23440733105Sun, 20 May 2012 14:58:59 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2hluluS1H1qc9s67o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://boldnessbemyfriend.tumblr.com/post/21669261051/3">boldnessbemyfriend</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><3</p> </blockquote>http://sonsryan.com/post/22596175303http://sonsryan.com/post/22596175303Mon, 07 May 2012 11:15:43 -0700“Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.”<br/><br/> - <em>John le Carré</em>http://sonsryan.com/post/21680284206http://sonsryan.com/post/21680284206Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:02:31 -0700“Don’t for a second be lulled into the notion that you are picking employees. They are picking you and you better be the one they want to pick.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>Phil Sugar</p> <p><a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/02/the-management-team-guest-post-from-phil-sugar.html">A VC: The Management Team - Guest Post From Phil Sugar</a></p> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://fredwilson.vc/">fred-wilson</a>)</p></em>http://sonsryan.com/post/20855670954http://sonsryan.com/post/20855670954Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:48:19 -0700“There’s this culture in the Valley of starting a company before they know what they want to do. You decided you want to start a company, but you don’t know what you are passionate about yet…you need to do stuff you are passionate about. The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.”<br/><br/> - <em>mark zuckerberg </em>http://sonsryan.com/post/20535270753http://sonsryan.com/post/20535270753Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:48:47 -0700““We want to build the most respected technology company in Canada”. Eric Diep, Co-Founder at A Thinking Ape”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/the-people-behind-canadas-most-promising-tech-start-ups/article2383226/page3/">The people behind Canada’s most promising tech-startups via Globe & Mail</a></em>http://sonsryan.com/post/20150680113http://sonsryan.com/post/20150680113Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:14:28 -0700a thinking apeedieperic diepvancouverstartupstech<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzgjisg1fo1qz6f9yo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/17699323100/noraleah-more-than-a-year-later-and-shes-still" class="tumblr_blog">soupsoup</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.noraleah.com/post/17695781644/more-than-a-year-later-and-shes-still-bringing">noraleah</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>More than a year later and she’s still bringing her daughter to work! Fantastic.</p> <blockquote> <p><span>Licia Ronzulli, Italy’s member of the European Parliament, voted Wednesday during a session in Strasbourg, France, with her daughter in her lap.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>(<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/2012/02/15/photos-of-the-day-feb-15-3/?mod=WSJBlog">WSJ</a> via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/17679097893/the-euro">nevver</a>)</p> </blockquote> <p>1 and a half yays.</p></blockquote>http://sonsryan.com/post/17701991491http://sonsryan.com/post/17701991491Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:29:42 -0800“That <i>quid pro quo</i> was always clear: you surrender every last detail of your life and Facebook will improve your social and romantic prospects.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/disruptions-facebook-users-ask-wheres-our-cut/">Does</a> Facebook <a href="http://pandodaily.com/2012/02/05/sorry-nick-mark-zuckerberg-doest-owe-you-fifty-dollars/">owe us</a>? (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://morganmissen.com/">morganmissen</a>)</em>http://sonsryan.com/post/17311254575http://sonsryan.com/post/17311254575Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:43:29 -0800“You can try to escape the story of your life, but you can’t. It happened… Heart broke. I knew you when you were young. Heart broke too. I will know you when we are old too. And maybe wise. I know you now. Your story. Mine isn’t the one I would have chosen in the beginning. But, I’ll take it. It is my story. It’s only mine. And, it’s not over. There’s time. There is time. There’s so much time.”<br/><br/> - <em><div> <p><span>Laura Dern in Enlightened. Brilliant series.</span></p> </div> <p>(via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/">wearethedigitalkids</a>)</p></em>http://sonsryan.com/post/16057061759http://sonsryan.com/post/16057061759Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:31:07 -0800<p><span> </span></p> <h2><span> <h2></h2> <div class="entry"> <p>Reading non-fiction<br/>looks like a quiet sport<br/>but this is misleading</p> <p>the reader’s mind is a ruckus of rebuttals<br/>musings and interrogations<br/>fantasies of integrating<br/>the cleverest bits<br/>into his next<br/>conversation</p> <p>it is fiction<br/>that is the true repose<br/>an act of patience<br/>listening to the author scratch his pen<br/>slowly<br/>along the plot</p> <p>trusting<br/>that he has invited interesting people<br/>into your flesh.</p> <p>via <a href="http://bentlily.com/2011/12/28/reading/">Bentlily</a></p> </div> </span></h2>http://sonsryan.com/post/15359483798http://sonsryan.com/post/15359483798Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:02:50 -0800<p>less stuff, more happiness</p>http://sonsryan.com/post/14077887454http://sonsryan.com/post/14077887454Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:49:12 -0800<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/12812516417/tumblr_luofmstFWo1qa4bs5&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>GO JENNA!</p>http://sonsryan.com/post/12812516417http://sonsryan.com/post/12812516417Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:49:40 -0800““There’s this culture in the Valley of starting a company before they know what they want to do. You decided you want to start a company, but you don’t know what you are passionate about yet…you need to do stuff you are passionate about. The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.””<br/><br/> - <em>– <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/30/facebooks-zuckerberg-if-i-were-starting-a-company-now-i-would-have-stayed-in-boston/">Mark Zuckerberg</a> (via <a href="http://amritrichmond.tumblr.com/">amritrichmond</a>)</em>http://sonsryan.com/post/12604214931http://sonsryan.com/post/12604214931Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:12:25 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltht6hIxpt1qffbeho1_500.jpg"/><br/> "Ghost in the Machine: Bob Dylan" <br/><br/> <img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltht6hIxpt1qffbeho2_500.jpg"/><br/> "Ghost in the Machine: John Lennon" <br/><br/> <p><a href="http://jameschutter.tumblr.com/post/12042995548/cassette-tape-portraits-brilliant">jameschutter</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Cassette Tape Portraits. Brilliant.</p> </blockquote>http://sonsryan.com/post/12167285208http://sonsryan.com/post/12167285208Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:49:19 -0700““I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.” — Theodore I. Rubin, MD”http://sonsryan.com/post/12153206113http://sonsryan.com/post/12153206113Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:39:30 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltx2ojPl961qdrz3yo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://sonsryan.com/post/12153018704http://sonsryan.com/post/12153018704Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:28:59 -0700“People lampoon the Occupy Wall Street movement as a bunch of marginal freaks, but these women from the heart of the country shared a basic resentment: The banks got bailed out, everyone else was left holding the bag.”<br/><br/> - <em><p>peggy got this right</p> <p><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203476804576615330515015042.html?KEYWORDS=peggy%20noonan">Peggy Noonan: ‘They Won’t Care Till They’re Affected’ - WSJ.com</a></p> <p>(via <a href="http://fredwilson.vc/">fred-wilson</a>)</p></em>http://sonsryan.com/post/12152635360http://sonsryan.com/post/12152635360Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:09:01 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr5tn6EGeN1qehl8mo1_500.png"/><br/><br/>http://sonsryan.com/post/12151705455http://sonsryan.com/post/12151705455Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:26:44 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltwynuKpiv1qa4bs5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pebbles</p> <p>Halloween 2011</p>http://sonsryan.com/post/12150719422http://sonsryan.com/post/12150719422Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:47:54 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltwyn2Unn51qa4bs5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Nite N Day</p> <p>Halloween 2011</p>http://sonsryan.com/post/12150706601http://sonsryan.com/post/12150706601Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:47:26 -0700