December 2011
3 posts
“One must be prepared to fight for one’s simple pleasures and to defend...”
– The Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
2 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
The Little Things...A Friend's Simple Wisdom
Me: there are little things i get anxious about - not reading nymag until the week is almost over and falling way behind in my dvr. i’m repeatedly reminded of, and surprised by, my attachment to small routines…
Him: But it’s our small routines that make us who we are, no? I mean, everybody gets up, goes to work, has a drink with friends etc; it’s the books we read, the...
“The French are endlessly subtle in their embrace of humanity and the mutations of a life. They accept human fault. They expect it.”
- "Paris was Ours"
March 2011
4 posts
What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial? →
“Entrepreneurs are entrepreneurial, as differentiated from managerial or strategic, because they think effectually; they believe in a yet-to-be-made future that can substantially be shaped by human action; and they realize that to the extent that this human action can control the future, they need not expend energies trying to predict it.”
Ha - Group Messaging at SX - blame the group... →
In practice group messaging is kind of weak on the exclusivity thing, because you’re almost always roped into groups with at least one person you don’t like which prevents you from sharing potentially useful information regarding your whereabouts.
February 2011
3 posts
“Social media killed the ironic blog headline.”
– [via]
January 2011
4 posts
A Good Litmus Test for Your Entrepreneurial Spirit
“Whether you are Jack Welch or the Dalai Lama, it is dangerous not to do what you love. If you don’t have a level of passion that drives your thinking about what you’re doing day in and day out, there will be others out there who are passionate who will overtake and outrun you. People who care will take the initiative away from those who are half-hearted. So loving what you do is a competitive...
December 2010
4 posts
“Would you like to know the secret of success? Mediocrity, my boy.”
– Walter Pidgeon, “The Last Time I Saw Paris”
November 2010
6 posts
“People in Manhattan are constantly creating these real unnecessary neurotic...”
– Woody (who else?)
Jack Donaghy's Life Lessons: 16 Pearls Of Wisdom... →
The Social Media Sobriety Test →
Wishful thinking.
50 Reasons to Love NYC →
October 2010
6 posts
Giants, woot woot!
As a disclaimer, I talk about San Francisco all the time, but I really do consider myself a New Yorker.
I see SF as a dear friend, I guess. So, it is only natural that I feel glowing pride for the Giants. If you’ve never been to PacBell, you have no idea how accurate a reflection of the city it is. Intimate feeling, bursting with personality, it’s one of the newer city additions (when...
“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them...”
– Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn’t have to understand...”
– The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
September 2010
6 posts
“…one of the things I had always liked about California: Everybody’s...”
– James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
“Always roaming the world. All that endless traveling, all those departure...”
– J.G. Ballard, Cocaine Nights
Harrisburg U Bans Student Use of Social Media for... →
The U Provost
wants students to think about how much they’re using technology in their daily lives and what kind of impact it has
I understand the idea, but somehow this seems wrong. Doesn’t the Provost understand that this is the “new normal?” Social media isn’t going anywhere, homeboy. Get used to it or, even better, find a way to integrate it into studies and...
August 2010
2 posts
July 2010
2 posts
June 2010
9 posts
