Happy Birthday @tylerkieft! (Taken with Instagram at Warakubune Sushi Restaurant)

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For tech news, I’ve tried pretty much everything new that comes along, and for the past four or five years now, nothing beats the duo of Techmeme and Hacker News for me.

Source: avc.com

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Foxconn has managed to make a leviathan manufacturing company as nimble and hungry as any Silicon Valley startup. And as we know better than any other place in the world, nimble and hungry can beat nearly anything.

Sarah Lacy,

Why China Wins

Source: pandodaily.com

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In Support of SOPA

SOPA and PROTECT-IP offer hope in returning to the golden age of telecommunications, and to the days before the Information Superhighway polluted the online culture with this domain name nonsense. Let the Domain Name System a natural death and prepare yourself for the Internet Protocol Number (IPN) renaissance. All you need to do is start a notebook that lists electronic resource names and their corresponding IPN. And let the first entry in your notebook be

The Daily WTF 74.50.110.120

We can only hope that our legislators introduce common sense guidelines to ban HTTP (and HTML/JavaScript) as well so we can all return to the more sensible GOPHER standard.

—http://thedailywtf.com/

Source: thedailywtf.com

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Humanoid: "Return of the Human Computers," The Economist

gethumanoid:

“Over the past few years, human computing has been reborn. The new generation of human computers carry out different tasks, but they mirror their predecessors in many other ways. They are being drafted in to perform tasks that computers cannot. They are employed in large numbers and are…

Source: gethumanoid

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One of the things I try to do when I build software is to find a balance between making products that will naturally appeal to people, but without being exploitative of human nature. It is a challenge but I think it’s doable. I’m interested in user-generated content, community, collaboration and people’s creativity and self-expression. When you work with these kinds of things, technology can make you more human, rather than less; it can be humanizing rather than de-humanizing. How to build something like this is an art, not a science. There’s no formula. You have to feel your way there.

Caterina Fake for GigaOm (via cacioppo)

Source: gigaom.com

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Building a profitable small-market company is difficult and carries a high risk of failure. Building a profitable large-market company is also difficult and carries a high risk of failure. But the marginal risk in building a company decreases as the addressable market increases. While a larger company may require more total work, the relative effort is less. Make no mistake: small-market companies still come with 18 hour days, flaky vendors, upset customers, and exasperated spouses.

Thinking small increases our risk. So let’s think big.

http://gigaom.com/2012/01/07/desantis-startups-crime-boss/

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Amazing day for a run in San Francisco. (Taken with Instagram at East Beach)

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Beautiful day in San Francisco. (Taken with Instagram at Jack Early Park)

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soupsoup:

via Lauren LaCapra

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Keynes, 2011

The bottom line is that 2011 was a year in which our political elite obsessed over short-term deficits that aren’t actually a problem and, in the process, made the real problem — a depressed economy and mass unemployment — worse.

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There are now — for the first time in three decades — more young women in school than in the work force.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/29/business/young-women-go-back-to-school-instead-of-work.html?src=me&ref=general

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