It changed me forever
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Living without stuff for a month
The other day, I was reading Albert’s post Freedom from Wanting and it reminded me of the time we moved to [...]
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Sensitive ears
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Curse of being a part-time audiophile
I call myself a part-time audiophile. An audiophile’s mission is the pursuit of pure sound reproduction and it is never done nor perfect. I am far from like that hence I call myself a part-time audiophile. My motivation stems from a completely different place. My ears are super-sensitive to anomalies. This is how I got […]
Is it even possible?
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Facebook and privacy
You can say whatever you want about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, if you read his last memo “a privacy-focused vision for social networking” you could deduce he got the message. I found it particularly interesting that he links privacy not only with keeping information private but also with reducing the reach and breadth of the […]
What is here today might not be there tomorrow
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Checks and balances on new products
Yesterday, the Jibo robot shut down permanently. It was marketed as a social robot, I never owned one, but it kind [...]
Sign of the times
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Lack of nuance
In today’s world, there’s a serious lack of nuance. And I wonder where it came from? There’s no nuance in politics, religion, work, or anything really. The problem is that lack of nuance kills debate and sharing of ideas. Lack of nuance makes it impossible to change your mind or leave the door open to […]
Fault-tolerant while high-achieving company culture
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High standards but forgiving
A culture of a company consists of a few fundamental values which the staff of a company holds dear. Fast-growing companies like startups are very conscious of this aspect of running the company. One of my favorite values I have been championing in the last few years is high standards while forgiving. With high standards […]
Universal law of wide adoption
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Everything iterates to lowest denominator
Last night, I was pondering a little bit on the social network post of yesterday. One of the interesting aspects is [...]
The status game
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Social capital and their networks
I regard my blog as my public notebook and one of the things I have not done lately is posting about interesting [...]
Keep every one in the loop
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Updating stakeholders
Marc Barros (founder of Moment and Contour) wrote an interesting post the other day about writing business updates. [...]
Accelerating innovation
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Thesis: open source becomes new type of industry standard
The most successful and widespread technologies in the physical sense are industry standards like wifi and usb. [...]