Ask me anything
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(Source: everlane)
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awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Hunter S. Thompson and Bill Murray
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The great missing debate in contemporary politics is about the role and reach of markets. Do we want a market economy, or a market society? What role should markets play in public life and personal relations? How can we decide which goods should be bought and sold, and which should be governed by nonmarket values? Where should money’s writ not run?
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Paul Graham's advice on tackling Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
Let me conclude with some tactical advice. If you want to take on a problem as big as the ones I’ve discussed, don’t make a direct frontal attack on it. Don’t say, for example, that you’re going to replace email. If you do that you raise too many expectations. Your employees and investors will constantly be asking “are we there yet?” and you’ll have an army of haters waiting to see you fail. Just say you’re building todo-list software. That sounds harmless. People can notice you’ve replaced email when it’s a fait accompli.
Empirically, the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small things. Want to dominate microcomputer software? Start by writing a Basic interpreter for a machine with a few thousand users. Want to make the universal web site? Start by building a site for Harvard undergrads to stalk one another.
Empirically, it’s not just for other people that you need to start small. You need to for your own sake. Neither Bill Gates nor Mark Zuckerberg knew at first how big their companies were going to get. All they knew was that they were onto something. Maybe it’s a bad idea to have really big ambitions initially, because the bigger your ambition, the longer it’s going to take, and the further you project into the future, the more likely you’ll get it wrong.
I think the way to use these big ideas is not to try to identify a precise point in the future and then ask yourself how to get from here to there, like the popular image of a visionary. You’ll be better off if you operate like Columbus and just head in a general westerly direction. Don’t try to construct the future like a building, because your current blueprint is almost certainly mistaken. Start with something you know works, and when you expand, expand westward.
The popular image of the visionary is someone with a clear view of the future, but empirically it may be better to have a blurry one. -
Summer 2010
Just updating a few things on here and found these saved as a draft from a while back.
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Englander’s new collection of stories coming February 7, 2012.
And that would be today….
Congratulations, Nathan!
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As the camera lens ceases to subjugate as it once did, a third category of nude imagery is emerging that is neither porn nor advertising but social erotica.
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Last night, The Skinny Dipping Report hosted a launch event at Lost Weekend NYC. The Skinny Dipping Report is a calendar guide to swimming naked in beautiful places around the world. Print calendars are available for view and pre-order on the website and was available for purchase at the event. Each month of the calendar for 2012 features photographs sourced via Flickr from one of twelve international contributors as well as the story of the photograph, map of the location, travel tips, and the moon cycle. (via The Skinny Dipping Report Launch Party)
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Thanks, Winslow! Look forward to seeing you there.
Anyone else who would like to be added to the guest list for tomorrow night’s launch party, please RSVP to naked@theskinnydippingreport.com.
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So happy to be part of this wicked calendar all about skinny dipping. Everybody at the Skinny Dipping Report did such an amazing job on this. Pre-order it here and find out where and how to naked in Killarney and the back-story of my featured photograph.
Thanks, Matthew! We’re so happy that you were a part of it. Yours was one of our favorite photos and stories.
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There is also Oysters Rocafella: a freshly shucked oyster presented on a bed of crushed ice interspersed with pieces of a smashed “Ace of Spades” Champagne bottle—”Ace of Spades” being the colloquial name for Armand de Brignac, Jay-Z’s favorite brand of Champagne—then topped with Champagne foam and served with frozen Champagne grapes. Just FYI.
Love.
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