YakShaving

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

Tag: ideas

Simple ideas

It’s amazing to me how many simple ideas still exist out there and have the potential to change humanity forever… if people just had a little bit more curiosity to power through and seek answers to their questions. As I type that, I realize maybe that’s the problem. Maybe we’ve been looking really hard for [...]

don’t be addicted to braincrack. i’m talking to you, design planners

I loved the zefrank show (zefrank is where i got that black shirt i have with the small fuzzy black duck that people always think is a stain) I’ve now referenced this video in conversation at least 3 times so I thought I might as well post it. I saw this while I was in [...]

Two cents on the New York Times

Mark Sigal, blogging over at O’Reilly radar has an interesting post about the breakdown of analog media business models, as does Fred Wilson (A VC), and Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch. I thought I’d add my few cents to the discussion. Mark hits pretty close to home as he discusses the New York Times, which [...]