December 2011
3 posts
My Parents Were Home Schooling Anarchists -... →
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“software skills are the most portable high-end skills on the planet. Spotting...”
– The Rise of Developeronomics - Forbes
Mobility is awesome.
November 2011
4 posts
The End of the Future - Peter Thiel - National... →
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Groupon IPO Shares Pop 40% On First Trade, Debuts... →
parislemon:
Wait wait wait!!! But but but!! Ponzi scheme! Should have sold to Google!
Yeah.
Groupon just went public with a market cap now 3x what Google was offering them. We’ll see if the good times last — now that they’re public, they’re going to have to show real growth in the numbers — but it’s pretty clear that either way, Groupon did the right thing in not taking that deal.
Good for...
“… Friedman laughed ruefully as he described leaving Hong Kong...”
– Jetsons vs. Flintstones, a visit with Thomas Friedman | Susan Freudenheim | Jewish Journal
August 2011
1 post
“Path dependence. This refers to the notion that often “something that seems...”
– Tools for Thinking - NYTimes.com
July 2011
1 post
“People who’ve done great things tend to seem as if they were a race apart....”
– http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
May 2011
3 posts
Bill Gates On Nuclear Energy: Compared To Coal, It... →
Raspberry Pi: A $25 Bare-Bones PC That Fits On... →
April 2011
1 post
“Pormpuraawans, we found, arranged time from east to west. That is, seated facing...”
– Does Language Influence Culture? - WSJ.com
Visage One →
February 2011
1 post
Using Leanspa my result in death →
November 2010
3 posts
All group buying sites in Hong Kong →
Is ubuyibuy buying Likes? Do others do this as... →
Where did ubuyibuy’s 130,000 Facebook fans go? →
October 2010
3 posts
Hong Kong Taxi Driver Economics →
Location of photo files on iPhone →
Quick Idea: Google Alerts to RSS to About-Me Page →
August 2010
1 post
Thinking differently about work, as a Millennial →
February 2010
2 posts
January 2010
1 post
November 2009
52 posts
[Blog] Twitter updates, hackathons, YCombinator →
My last post got me thinking about passively digesting information and how that concept can abstracts all the way out to hackers and creating great products.
Passively digesting information can…
Some excerpts from danah boyd. Information flow. →
Our bodies are programmed to consume fat and sugars because they’re rare in nature. Thus, when they come around, we should grab them. In the same way, were biologically programmed to be attentive…
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Pretty sure my iPhone is a goner.
I have 16 days left on my original one year hardware warranty from Apple, but since that’s only valid in the America (*fail*) I guess what I’m going to do is buy…
Trying to fix my dropped iPhone →
I uploaded a YouTube video: white screen of death. it’s no the number 1 connector. i think the lcd is out. sucks.
Melissa is here visiting me from HK. Yay… →
Melissa is here visiting me from HK. Yay! We’ll be sure and do a YouTube video tomorrow (I’m writing this so we will remember). Today we went to the 798 District and looked at modern Chinese art….
Just signed up for a Guided account with… →
Just signed up for a Guided account with @ChinesePod.
I’ll be using it to keep up my Chinese skills while I’m back in the US for a month or so. Seems like a very cool service.
Been watching @Melissa and @davemcclure… →
Been watching @Melissa and @davemcclure’s tweets all day from the Cyberport Venture Capital Forum in Hong Kong. Not good for staying focused on studying Chinese.
I really want to make an iPhone app that… →
I really want to make an iPhone app that helps people create sentences in Chinese.
Here’s the minimum viable product:
1. Search for a word or phrase like you would in any Chinese dictionary app.
2. Save it.
What I sang at KTV →
I uploaded a YouTube video: What I sang at KTV
Testing YouTubes "Record Video from... →
I uploaded a YouTube video: jmetcalf27’s webcam recorded Video - November 15, 2009, 11:43 PM
Having a hard time learning Chinese. →
I uploaded a YouTube video: recorded 2009-10-12
It’s so much cooler to get comments on … →
It’s so much cooler to get comments on my blog than on things in Facebook. Feels more special, I think.
Clouds are rolling back in. →
Here goes trying to use my blog like a l… →
Here goes trying to use my blog like a longer version of Twitter. I really like this P2 Wordpress theme.
I just got back from shopping at YaShow or YaXiu. I’ve been going there, and to other…
List 1 →
Testing this out. Could I use this for lists on my blog….
Here goes trying to use my blog like a l… →
Here goes trying to use my blog like a longer version of Twitter. I really like this P2 Wordpress theme.
I just got back from shopping at YaShow or YaXiu. I’ve been going there, and to other…
Qik - Mobile video by John Erik Metcalf →
I uploaded a YouTube video: Streamed by John Erik Metcalf. More at http://qik.com/johnerik
