Jon McGee

"One thing I learned is that while your vision should never change, you should keep trying different..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:18:48 -0400

“One thing I learned is that while your vision should never change, you should keep trying different strategies until one works. (…) I think failing is the best way to keep you grounded, curious, and humble. Success is dangerous because often you don’t understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you’ve failed. You have a lot of time to think about it.”

- Mark Pincus, Founder & CEO, Zynga

How to Fail: Mark Pincus

"It takes the same amount of time to run a small company as a big one."

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:37:29 -0400

“It takes the same amount of time to run a small company as a big one.”

- Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director, Menlo Ventures

Startup Secret 45: Might as well go big

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs Read the article on NY...

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:02:02 -0400

A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs

Read the article on NY Times written by Steve Jobs’ sister. Moving.

"Be social by design - put people at the center, and start there."

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:22:46 -0400

“Be social by design - put people at the center, and start there.”

- Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook

From ANA keynote live stream, Oct 22, 2011

Toronto Tempo Time lapse video of various Toronto scenes, by...

Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:29:00 -0400

Toronto Tempo

Time lapse video of various Toronto scenes, by Ryan Emond. Beautiful.

"Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time..."

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:29:00 -0400

“Others inspire us, information feeds us, practice improves our performance, but we need quiet time to figure things out, to emerge with new discoveries, to unearth original answers.”

- – Ester Buchholz

The Power of Tablets This says it all. 1-yr old baby thinks a...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:38:58 -0400

The Power of Tablets

This says it all. 1-yr old baby thinks a magazine is a “broken” tablet.

"If you told Don Draper that campaigns as he knew them would die in his lifetime, he would have fired..."

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:00:00 -0400

“If you told Don Draper that campaigns as he knew them would die in his lifetime, he would have fired you. Even today, in 2011, after being hit over the head with consumer empowerment, the ad industry is still reluctant to face a very stark reality: it’s no longer the advertiser that controls the message, it’s the recipient.”

- - Eric Wheeler, Co-Founder, 33Across

http://adage.com/article/digitalnext/ad-campaigns-dead/230213/

Pumped Up Kicks This songs tends to get stuck in your head....

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:54:00 -0400

Pumped Up Kicks

This songs tends to get stuck in your head. Sweet video too.

Landscapes in HD HD video of natural landscapes. Just think: the...

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:58:00 -0400

Landscapes in HD

HD video of natural landscapes. Just think: the technology (cameras, video codecs, fast internet and fast CPUs to play it back) has all come together in the past 5 years. Amazing.

"Most of our political leaders are not engineers or scientists and do not listen to engineers or..."

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:46:00 -0400

“Most of our political leaders are not engineers or scientists and do not listen to engineers or scientists. Today a letter from Einstein would get lost in the White House mail room, and the Manhattan Project would not even get started; it certainly could never be completed in three years.”

- – Peter Thiel, Founder, PayPal

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/278758/end-future-peter-thiel

Nginx Gets Commercial Backing

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:36:00 -0400

Nginx Gets Commercial Backing:

Nginx, the free, open source Russian web server I’ve become intimate with over the past 4 years, gets VC funding in prep for going commercial. This is one of the gems of the open source software world.

“Specifically, Alexeev wanted server software that could maintain up to 10,000 concurrent connections per server, which at the time was not possible. An average connection executed through Apache can take several megabytes of working memory, whereas a connection on Nginx can be only consume a few kilobytes, which means Nginx can manage more connections per server, Alexeev explained.”

"When you are jumping curves, defying/ignoring the experts, facing off against big challenges,..."

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:23:00 -0400

“When you are jumping curves, defying/ignoring the experts, facing off against big challenges, obsessing about design, and focusing on unique value, you will need to convince people to believe in what you are doing in order to see your efforts come to fruition.”

- – Guy Kawasaki

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20117575-37/what-i-learned-from-steve-jobs/

Photo

Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:25:00 -0400

Osaka Skyline Taken from my hotel in Osaka, 2011

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:57:00 -0400

Osaka Skyline

Taken from my hotel in Osaka, 2011