Month: August 2012
August 18, 2012
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Defining Property
March 2012 As a child I read a book of stories about a famous judge in eighteenthcentury Japan called Ooka Tadasuke. One of the cases he decidedwas brought by the owner of a food shop. A poor student who couldafford only rice was eating his rice while enjoying the deliciouscooking smells coming from…
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A perfect sunny Saturday afternoon for doing nothing other than listening to Jackie Mittoo.
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Your Product Chooses Your Community, Marketing Scales It
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Joho the Blog » Authors don’t scale. Topics do.
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Twitter Engineering: Crowdsourced data analysis with Clockwork Raven
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The Power of Defaults
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@abosika MBP Retina is completely amazing. Best computer I’ve ever had – by far.
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If you’re looking for me on
http://app.net
I’m:https://alpha.app.net/kenschafer
(User ID 39)
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@abosika Mountain Lion isn’t a big change from Lion but it feels tighter. I’m also on a MBP Retina now so YMMV. 🙂
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BTW, the “Share on Twitter” experience in Mountain Lion is just lovely. pic.twitter.com/Ig7J2Z9J
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A 53% chance of rain on Monday.
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@abosika 🙂
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There is NOTHING to fear! I have a SYSTEM!
August 17, 2012
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Rands In Repose: Hacking is Important
Back in the early 90s, Borland International was the place to be an engineer. Coming off the purchase of Ashton-Tate, Borland was the third largest software company, but, more importantly, it was a legitimate competitor to Microsoft. Philippe Kahn, the CEO at the time, was fond of motorcycles,…
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“Join this Branch” is the new “The [me] daily is out!”.
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Just got 4th row center tickets for Ben Gibbard at the Danforth Music Hall on October 14th. Looking forward to this!
August 16, 2012
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Building a client for someone else’s app is a mug’s game.
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The Acceleration of Addictiveness
The acceleration of addictivness http://t.co/EdjFQFo2 by @paulg #iPad
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Writing Wednesdays: The Most Important Writing Lesson I Ever Learned
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Nathan Bashaw: Product Designers vs. Fashion Designers
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Stop Publishing Web Pages – Anil Dash
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The Pretty New Web and the Future of “Native” Advertising | The Awl
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August 15, 2012
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See the campaign in action:
http://cargocollective.com/peters/Target-Summer-2012
MT @augerrhythms Absolutely gorgeous. Posters for Target Summer 2012
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Daring Fireball: Pixel Perfect
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August 14, 2012
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That I’m an atheist or that I fear clowns?
RT @neilio @kenschafer Always suspected, never confirmed. Until now. 🙂
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My nightmares become reality. pic.twitter.com/2m1acctI
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I’m an atheist. You’re probably not.
Click to access RED-C-press-release-Religion-and-Atheism-25-7-12.pdf
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A VC: The Nature Of The Firm and Work Markets
Those who watched the video I posted on Sunday saw me talking about this. But I didn’t do it justice so I’m going to do a full post on this. The brilliant Nobel prize winning economist Ronald Coase (who is still alive!) wrote a seminal essay called The Nature Of The Firm in 1937. This is an…