September 2009
16 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-27) →
The Minus 5 (20)
Monsters of Folk (9)
Julian Casablancas (4)
Pixies (1)
Wilco (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
feedback:
Jesse Woods - “Hounds of Heaven”
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“In the mid-1960s, India and Pakistan were exceptions to the trend toward more...”
– Gregg Easterbrook on Norman Borlaug. The entire piece is a must read.
Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
The Strokes...
5-8% of Web Content Dissapears Every Year →
Cool post from the team working on Perpetually.
Sign Up User Experience
Seth Levine has some good notes up about how to create a fluid sign up experience for a new website.
“That false charges of racism lack the power to influence public opinion is...”
– James Taranto, Best of the Web
He cuts the the point better than I can.
The Elephant in the Room is a Racist →
marco:
Politico’s lead article discusses, in cautious tones, Democratic leaders saying, in cautious tones, that some people are telling them, in cautious tones, that maybe some of the opposition to Obama is fueled by race. Rather than pretending that the problem might go away if we ignore it, let’s just state explicitly what everybody knows: much of the most vehement opposition to Obama is...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-9-13) →
Ghostland Observatory (8)
Pixies (3)
Julian Casablancas (1)
The Kinks (1)
Sam Cooke (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Seth Godin's Hiearchy of Success →
- One Wing, Wilco
I feel like The National would...
“So we got to thinking: Rather than hastily remake the human health-care system,...”
– James Taranto, WSJ Best of the Web
“you can’t let your failures define you – you have to let them teach you. You...”
– Barack Obama’s Back To School Speech - WhiteHouse.Gov (via fred-wilson)
Failure is such a huge part of being an entrepreneur. It’s also one of the biggest benefits of starting a company and being an entrepreneur in the US. It’s not the funding environment, the technical or business...