THIS SHIT JUST GOT REAL

"You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to..."

Sat, 26 May 2012 00:41:51 -0700

“You gotta commit. You’ve gotta go out there and improvise and you’ve gotta be completely unafraid to die. You’ve got to be able to take a chance to die. And you have to die lots. You have to die all the time. You’re goin’ out there with just a whisper of an idea. The fear will make you clench up. That’s the fear of dying. When you start and the first few lines don’t grab and people are going like, “What’s this? I’m not laughing and I’m not interested,” then you just put your arms out like this and open way up and that allows your stuff to go out. Otherwise it’s just stuck inside you.”

- Bill Murray (via paulciampanelli)

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Wed, 23 May 2012 08:12:41 -0700

"If investors have a choice of investing in a blockbuster cancer drug that will pay them nothing for..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 10:15:27 -0700

“If investors have a choice of investing in a blockbuster cancer drug that will pay them nothing for fifteen years or a social media application that can go big in a few years, which do you think they’re going to pick? If you’re a VC firm, you’re phasing out your life science division.”

- Why Facebook is Killing Silicon Valley « Steve Blank

Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company

Fri, 18 May 2012 19:42:00 -0700

Avoiding Depression While Not Running a $1B Company:

smalldogsbigdogs:

Go for a lot of walks
I walk our dog at least once a day and often twice. Walks are a great way to clear your head and gain a sense of optimism by the time you get home. I mix up my walk between residential streets and streets filled with small businesses. Every day I walk by those businesses I see the owners toiling away: organizing shelves, working the fryer, wiping counters. I am even on speaking terms now with a few of them. Camaraderie. Those guys are in the same boat I am.

I honestly don’t know if this is a brilliant troll or this guy is actually serious.

After I give facebook permissions to an app, I'm like

Wed, 16 May 2012 20:37:40 -0700

runningastartup:

This is a great tumblr.

"Marco is actually a part of the Apple cult along with Gruber and the rest of them. These guys have..."

Thu, 10 May 2012 10:28:37 -0700

“Marco is actually a part of the Apple cult along with Gruber and the rest of them. These guys have no idea what actual software development is actually like. For this you truly need to look beyond the closed box that is Objective-C, Cocoa, and look out into the world of real languages. These guys won’t have the mindset to code natively in C/C , for widely adopted frameworks such as .NET, utilizing modern languages like C#.”

- Why I don’t have comments on my site – Marco.org

This whole comment is amazingly off-the-rails nuts, but I’ve actually encountered this line of thinking before. How many millions (or billions) of devices will Apple need to sell before the world of old-school windows software developers see Mac and iOS as “real” software platforms?

Trying to belittle another developer while he is out there selling $BMWs worth of software… that’s just nuts.