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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006Building your own Google maps the easy way, but beware “the standard resolution on google maps is far too coarse for most Australian locations”
How to write a Technical Article
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Expository articles expose or reveal a subject through facts, reason and argument. [However,] Your observations and experience often form the basis of your finding in the first place. Using your experience humanizes your writing and makes for an interesting read.
Values, and Belief v Religion
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006“His problem, back then, was not that he paraded his belief but that he believed. All this can seem quaint now when professing religion is practically a political necessity, whether one believes or not. There is now an inverse proportion between religiosity and sincerity.”
Here’s to the Clueless
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006from the Clueless Manifesto: The clueless accomplish amazing things–not necessarily because we’re bold, brilliant innovators, but perhaps because we just don’t know any better.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2006Surah 5:2-4
Fear of Writing
Friday, February 17th, 2006It’s like exercise. No matter how out of shape you are, if you exercise a few times a week, you’ll inevitably get fitter.
Have you ever sold a diamond ?
Saturday, February 11th, 2006In developing a strategy for De Beers in 1953, N. W. Ayer said: “In our opinion old diamonds are in ’safe hands’ only when widely dispersed and held by individuals as cherished possessions valued far above their market price.” As far as De Beers and N. W. Ayer were concerned, “safe hands” belonged to those women psychologically conditioned never to sell their diamonds.
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006Apple 1984 Super Bowl commercial
The Art of Evangelism
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Another Guy Kawasaki post:Apparently, “evangelist” is becoming a mainstream job in the tech industry. as people hit the streets with this title, they need a foundation of the fundamental principles of evangelism. According to Kawasaki, these are:
Create a cause.
Look for agnostics, ignore atheists. A
Localize the pain.
Let people test drive the cause.
Learn to give a demo.
Provide [...]
The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint
Thursday, January 12th, 2006From Guy Kawasaki: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than
twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.BTW, The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:
Problem
Your solution
Business model
Underlying magic/technology
Marketing and sales
Competition
Team
Projections and milestones
Status and timeline
Summary and call to action
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tech bubble back again ?
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Andy Kessler, who made his bones with Wall Street Meat, a book that skewered people being welcomed back by John Battelle sums up the current silliness around Google’s price targets in his latest post….
Ah, price targets are back in fashion. And stupid investors will fall for them again. It’s what we do on Wall Street [...]
Paul Allen on the joy of vintage computer collecting
Thursday, January 12th, 2006Computer Collector Magazine has an interview with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen about the importance of preserving computer history:
The most appealing aspect of … PDPplanet.com [computer history website] is live Telnet access to machines in Allen’s personal collection — click the “community” link to register for an account. The PDP-10 systems are the same kind that powered [...]
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