November 2011
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October 2011
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The United States of Broken Hearts:... →
unitedstatesofbrokenhearts:
To start, here are a few stats on the overall journey.
Total trip length start to finish: 24 days
Total riding days: 21 days
Total miles: 2836 +- 5 miles. (the third to last day google maps blunder was the only non-exact day. I could figure it out, but don’t feel like it. I also spent 8 miles…
My brother reflects on his journey. Worth a read.
September 2011
7 posts
The United States of Broken Hearts: Day 2 →
unitedstatesofbrokenhearts:
Wasn’t able to post last night, so here’s the recap. Made the 75 mile trek from Victorville to Joshua tree fairly easy. After talking to a bike shop guy in town, I decided to attempt the 100 mile haul through the remainder of the mojave desert and just camp when I felt like it. There is no service…
My brother is blogging about his 24 day unsupported cycling...
Your strategy is showing.
- Jeff Greenspan
When god closes a door, he opens a dress.
Notes from my iPhone
Sep 3 - 3:50 am
Keys. Shoe. - find before leaving.
August 2011
2 posts
“The rise of the web was a rare instance when we learned new, positive information about human potential. Who would have guessed (at least at first) that millions of people would put so much effort into a project without the presence of advertising, commercial motive, threat of punishment, charismatic figures, identity politics, exploitation of the fear of death, or any of the other classic...
“It wanes and waxes with moons of chaos, and we’re in a full moon.”
July 2011
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Lessons
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this trip, it’s that when a strange girl in a foreign country gives you an unidentifiable pill, you take it.
June 2011
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Vandalism or Vandawesome →
How do we decide what is acceptable in our public space and what isn’t. Who gets a Banksy free pass and who gets turpentined?
The truth is out there...
They found him! - Peter Wolf. The Facebook Guy.
Ambitious but Rubbish: Go to Wikipedia and click... →
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We’d never been formally introduced, but apparently my dick’s name is John Bacon.
“St Helena Secondary College”
“Van Buren (Fallout 3)”
”Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of…
“Virgin in a Condom”
… Ok seriously, who rigged this thing?
Wasn’t going...
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May 2011
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The Dalai Lama, a designer and a Facebooker walk...
So, this designer at a dive bar tells me a story:
The Dalai Lama is waiting for a much anticipated letter from a head of state. Day after day, week after week, he asks his assistant if the letter has arrived. Finally, it arrives and the assistant rushes it in. The Dalai Lama tells him to set it on the corner table. Three days later, the assistant is in the office and notices the letter remains...
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Assume Positive Intent
I haven’t shared written thoughts publicly in some time. Today, I hope to kick things off again. I’ll be brief.
The most valuable corporate lesson I’ve learned over the years is to approach every conversation with the utmost empathy for the other parties involved. This is hard to do, especially for someone who is as opinionated as me. It’s also broad. “Practice...
April 2011
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Good Ol' Notes from the iPhone (mostly while...
Today was a good day.
Isn’t it always when things couldn’t be going better that everything f a l l s ?
Yesterday I had a breakfast burrito at Nick’s Tacos. It’s about the best breakfast burrito you can buy for your money. While waiting in line, the father ahead of me concluded his order. I was zoning in and out but just as he finished up with, “and...
March 2011
7 posts
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Shot
Sometimes when I think about penalty kicks in soccer I wonder how the goalie ever has a chance of saving the ball. And sometimes, before the very same shot, I wonder how the player could ever have a chance at scoring.
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Before Work
I went to the gym before work Thursday. Alarm at 6am, snoozed until 6:30, stumbled around the room. Pants, socks, shirt, t shirt, shoes, in search of a plastic bag for it all. Laptop, headphones, hard drive, ID card, keys, phones, wallet, extra cash for ski tickets, notebook, reading book. It’s more than I’ll remember. I need to clear my room. Or clean it. Or at least stop moving all...
I wonder if Taylor Swift knows my story. I bet she gets my humor.
February 2011
15 posts
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WSJ Article: Where Have The Good Men Gone?
This article does a good job of laying out the situation without really saying if it’s a problem or not.
What would the problems and consequences be with prolonged adolescence amongst American males?
I wonder if the fact we’ve pushed starting families off to such later ages means our generation will have a greater disconnect with our...
I have this song Distraction by Angels and Airwaves on my iPhone. For some reason the version I downloaded years ago has a skip. So it goes, “So I’ll still have you //skip// have you…”
I listened to that song over 200 times over the years on my computer and phone, but not within the last six months.
Today I found the song on Spotify and played it. When it got to that...
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I’ve been interviewing 13-18 yr olds (and then separately their parents) all over the Bay Area for a new production to try and get a sense of what teen life is like today.
Parents love to say that life begins at 18. When a child graduates from high school that’s when things really get started.
Life from 0-18 is not a warm up. It’s their real life. They’re playing for...
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Forbes: Why Facebook Was Smart To Remain Neutral... →
This is one of the most interesting discussions I’ve had in a long time. When your product/company is being credited as changing the world, do you champion that? Particularly when your company may not have the most flawless branding history and could use the good PR. Twitter is a great example of what that championing looks like. They take an extremely proactive stance on how their product...
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They go out every night,
his pants are super tight.
Oh yeaahhhhhhh, they don’t even care at all.
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Mubarak Steps Down - Revolution: Begins
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/02/201121125158705862.html
This is an amazing day, but it’s truly only the start of this whole thing.
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And then I saw her standing there with green eyes and long blond hair.
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Cold Snap
Tonight I recorded an interview between ABC News Reporter Christiane Amanpour, ABC News Producer Andrew Morse and our team here at Facebook (Randi). It was supposed to be a Live interview, but we ran into a ton of difficulties Skyping from Egypt that will hopefully be worked out for tomorrow.
Christiane spoke about how her interview with President Mubarak wasn’t an interview at all, it was...
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The One the Morning After
http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/google-tried-to-buy-path-for-100-million-path-said-no/
Morin (& Team) turned down $100,000,000 for Path. He would have been able to continue to grow it within Google with an additional $25M based off future success. I’m usually all for being 100% behind your baby, but this was a silly, silly move. That was the exit. There won’t be a bigger exit. I...
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No no, the original title was War (What Is It Good...
In the matter of Google vs. Bing, this blog post sums up my thoughts pretty well:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2011/02/01/why-is-google-so-hysterically-hypocritical-about-bing-using-its-public-data/
For a company that indexes other people’s content as a business, it seems insane to think they have any case in chastising Bing for indexing some extreme outlier search terms that it lacked.
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January 2011
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WatchPopper.