Derek Sivers has a great take on the human touch in tech startups:
Ah! I get it. I smiled and pointed to my ear.
“No software. I just listen to every…
One of my life lessons is low self-worth, coupled by a feeling that I'm not successful but that in order to be okay I have to be successful.
When that…
When someone gives you advice, particularly startup advice, it's not the advice itself that's typically useful. You can't just take someone else's ide…
David Heinemeier Hansson on the 37signals blog:
A star environment is based on trust, vision, and congruent behavior. Make people proud to work where…
In my session with Gay Hendricks last week, he told me to go on a mission to find all of the unlovable parts of myself and others, and love them anywa…
When we experience pain, that pain fossilizes as fear. Now we're afraid of doing the thing that hurt in the past. Over time we accumulate more and mor…
When I was raising my first round, it fell apart because an A-list investor who had given us a verbal commitment backed out. He…
When you right-click on the website of the Mysore City Police, you get this stern warning:
I wonder if it's some sort of joke, or someone hacked the…
This is absolutely incredible. A billboard in Lima, Peru, produces drinkable water from thin air, and with a tap at the base allowing people to take i…
