March 2011
18 posts
“scrappy hackers don’t butter everyone’s parsnips”
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— @fkh
alas.
“By nature entrepreneurs dream BIG. In private, they even talk BIG. But most who actually do go BIG are pretty surprised by just how BIG they’ve become . Most start by wanting to build something great and their users decided it would be BIG. Their users told their friends and it became BIG. And, that’s an important thing to remember in startup land- its hard work and users, not press or deep pocketed VCs that determine if you’re going to be BIG.”
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Declaring and Doing Are Two Different Things Well said. It’s easier to talk BIG than to do small (and well).
“I never trust anyone who’s more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.”
— XKCD alt-text on this comic. (via thegongshow)
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“TransportationCamp and CityCamp are spreading around the world very fast and our friends in St. Petersburg are as engaged in this as we are. There is a ton of potential for international collaboration. It will be exciting to watch over the coming months.”
—Open Transportation
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“I dare anyone to call the Vikings and the Latin-Americans sissies”
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Bike Lames! Straw Men on 10-Speeds in New York’s Last Culture War | The New York Observer
David Byrne on the notion that biking for transport isn’t a “super macho thing”
“we don’t expect Recollect to change the world. But we do hope that it will serve as a building block for rethinking the government-user experience that will lay the foundations so that others will be able to change the world.”
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Launching an Open Data Business: Recollect.net (Vantrash 2.0) | eaves.ca
I like that approach
“You almost never want to be a part of the cool kids, because they’re not the ones actually getting anything done. I promise”
—I’m Already Sick Of SXSW
“There is evidence though that if you let endusers adopt Internet technologies they become change agents for the kind of institutional change that will be needed.”
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This is what I call the “enterprise end-run”
“We, urban dwellers, constantly struggle to come up with compact and functional bike storage. This unusual piece goes beyond simply providing a place for your two-wheeled friend, it puts your bike to work! Created by Store Muu Design Studio, the PIT IN bike desk utilizes the bike saddle, turning it into a chair. Made entirely from plywood, the piece is fairly light and easily movable. Skeptics might argue that a bike seat makes the most uncomfortable chair imaginable. However, if you are not planning to write a novel and just want to take a coffee break and check emails, the PIT IN desk will serve you well.”
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“The process of placing chairs begins with retrieving discarded shipping pallets from dumpsters, construction sites, and other locations throughout Brooklyn, and repurposed those shipping pallets into adirondack chairs, which we then place in public spaces. DoTank:Brooklyn has placed chairs in six locations throughout northern Brooklyn. The method of using shipping pallets to build the adirondack chairs allows us to have a light impact on the world’s natural environment. As a result, building and distributing the chairs is a net-positive for the community. Chairbombing, and the repurposing of shipping pallets, will continue to take place as a means of improving our natural environment, and our community.”
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