June 2009
20 posts
“And ‘by invitation only’ or high priced events are particularly bad...”
– Fred Wilson
May 2009
18 posts
“If you get drunk the night before an exam instead of studying and you fail, then...”
– Malcolm Gladwell in one of the older exchanges with Bill Simmons. These are great.
“I think the only way around the problem is to put every team in the lottery....”
– Malcolm Gladwell discussing the lack out big thinking among underdog teams in professional sports. This is a fun back and forth between Gladwell and Bill Simmons
fred-wilson:
I’ll Fight - Wilco - Wilco
We’ve...
Wilco (The Album)
Wilco’s new album isn’t due to come out until late June, but it’s available to stream on their website now. So far it sounds a lot different from their last effort, Sky Blue Sky.
“A bootstrapped startup is a pressure cooker. Say goodbye to vacations, dentists,...”
– Ten lessons in bootstrapping from the founders of Urbanspoon - TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source (via datainsightsideas) (via mikehudack) (via echolot)
Do web startups need VC? →
Fantasy Baseball Draft - Stick With the Gameplan
The easiest way to screw up a fantasy baseball draft is to not do your homework. The other is to not follow your own advice when it comes time to pick. After doing plenty of research, I decided that Grady Sizemore was not worth an early first round pick; but when I came up at 5th overall I took him anyway.
The whole point of building out your top 10 or top 20 list is to have a gameplan for your...
Defensive Indifference
I learned a new baseball rule today:
In addition, if the situation of the game is such that the steal is of little use (usually in the late innings when the runner would not change the game’s outcome by scoring), and the catcher does not attempt to throw out the runner, the runner is not credited with a steal, and the base is attributed to defensive indifference.
Tumblarity
I see that a lot of people are upset about Tumblarity. I can’t figure out why. It’s a tiny link on your dashboard that can easily be ignored. Can’t everyone who doesn’t find it useful (myself included) use Tumblr exactly the same way as they did before Tumblarity existed? I could understand the outrage if this drastically effected how you use the site, but this seems...
“I am a man amongst mouse”
– Scott Adams. Not that Scott Adams.
Manny Being A-Rod →
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