John Erik Metcalf

Co-Founder Demand Analytics. Interested in learning, making things and having fun. Homeschooled. Speak Chinese. Love my family, mountain biking and Austin.
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parislemon:

poptech:

Matt’s back and he’s still dancing

Such a sucker for this kind of stuff.

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How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - NYTimes.com 

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Pixar story rules (one version) 

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

One For The Shoeshine Man - Charles Bukowski

settled:

The balance is preserved by the snails climbing the
Santa Monica cliffs;
the luck is in walking down Western Avenue
and having the girls in a massage
parlor holler at you, “Hello Sweetie!”
the miracle is having 5 women in love
with you at the age of 55,
and the goodness is that you are only able
to love one of them.
the gift is having a daughter more gentle
than you are, whose laughter is finer
than yours.
the peace comes from driving a
blue 1967 Volks through the streets like a
teenager, radio tuned to The Host Who Loves You
Most, feeling the sun, feeling the solid hum
of the rebuilt motor
as you needle through traffic.
the grace is being able to like rock music,
symphony music, jazz …
anything that contains the original energy of
joy.

Read the poem

My Parents Were Home Schooling Anarchists - NYTimes.com 

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software skills are the most portable high-end skills on the planet. Spotting and temporarily attracting talent doesn’t mean you get to keep it. Stock option-slavery and golden handcuffs for talent from acquired companies aside, there’s not much you can do to combat social and economic mobility. Not only can software developers switch industries easily, they can even survive on their own much more easily. A nuclear engineer really cannot do much without nuclear reactors or bombs to work with.

The End of the Future - Peter Thiel - National Review Online 

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Groupon IPO Shares Pop 40% On First Trade, Debuts At $28 With A $17.8B Market Cap 

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 them.

… Friedman laughed ruefully as he described leaving Hong Kong International Airport and arriving at LAX: “It was like flying from ‘The Jetsons’ to ‘The Flintstones.’
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