YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: September, 2008

links for 2008-09-15

Evolving VC What makes a good venture Capitalist? (tags: venturecapital vc investor financing) Particletree ยป What We Looked for in an Angel (tags: venturecapital investor money startup angel wufoo)

links for 2008-09-14

David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University (tags: wisdom speech philosophy life) AjaxDaddy – Ajax Examples in Action (tags: webdev web widgets)

San Fran trip + TechCrunch50 Redux

I’m back from San Francisco and really missing it–a shout out to Ani for putting me up and showing me around and giving me the real startup scoop– Which would have taken me months to catch up on! awesome breakfast place: Zazie Techcrunch50 was generally pretty awesome — Jason Calacanis wanted bloggers to answer the [...]

links for 2008-09-12

The School of Life (tags: school learning bibliotherapy)

links for 2008-09-04

Papers and Talks – Trust in Web-based Social Networks: A Project in Social AI (tags: web2.0 trust semanticweb socialnetworks)

links for 2008-09-02

Commuting/Touring Bike (tags: touring tips bicycle) Fully Loaded Touring Bicycles – On Tour Photo Gallery by Ron W at pbase.com this looks like a blast (tags: touring photography cycling travel bike)