Greek Complexity

2010-01-26T11:51:42+08:00

Great article! Why to Not Not Start a Startup, writes Paul Graham. Great read for anyone that earns a living, not just for entrepreneurs. Couple quotes: If you're too inexperienced to start a startup, what you should do is start...

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Golden Eras

2010-01-08T08:48:36+08:00

A friend posted an interesting thought on his Facebook page a few days ago that I thought I'd share: People talk about Golden era of this and that being 50+ years ago and wish they were there. I wonder what...

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Pragmatic vegetarianism

2010-01-04T02:13:35+08:00

Interesting article. JG is Jeff Goldberg, a journalist with The Atlantic. JF is Jonathan Safran Foer, a writer who recently published the book Eating Animals. Would normally have just stuck this on my radar feed but I thought I'd bung...

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Twitter Rant

2010-01-01T16:04:34+08:00

The FT has an interesting article on Tencent, the Chinese Internet company that has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years to now become one of China's largest and most valuable Internet players. Quite well written, I thought,...

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Linkfest

2009-12-27T20:16:37+08:00

Yes, it's a bit of a linkfest this couple of days. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to subscribe to my RSS feed or type in your email into the box at the top right of...

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Some "dream"

2009-12-12T11:55:41+08:00

Worth a read. Excerpts: Some are leaving behind their homes and mortgages right away, while others are simply halting payments until the bank kicks them out. That's freeing up cash to use in other ways. Ms. Richey's family of five...

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Quote from a budding bureaucrat

2009-05-11T00:58:01+08:00

I promise this is worth a read. "Deep" engineering doesn't exist in Singapore, says Motochan, particularly in the context of new business formation. Ok, accepted, I guess. And the solution? Centralized and concerted effort with direct and appropriate KPIs needs...

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Free wine? Deluxe home? $10K a month?

2009-05-05T18:13:20+08:00

All of the above on offer and in return: we’re looking for someone (maybe you) who really knows how to use Web 2.0 and Facebook and blogs and social media and YouTube and all sorts of good stuff like that...

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For the Ripplevox team

2009-04-20T12:27:28+08:00

[shameless plug] Ripplevox, pick me to trial StarHub’s BlackBerry® Storm™ smartphone because: Who better to review this than the guy who wrote these other reviews? (Let's not reference my book reviews too.) I'm already a pretty heavy mobile data user...

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Sixth Sense

2009-03-25T23:48:50+08:00

This is by far, the most innovative interface I've ever seen and am likely to see for the next few years at least. And yet, it's conceptually so simple (execution is everything) that it's really not particularly expensive, far cheaper...

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And the Facebook debate continues

2009-03-25T20:28:00+08:00

I read the title of one of Mike Arrington's recent posts and thought he was being sarcastic. Glory be, he's serious! Mike relates user complaints about Facebook's interface changes to design by committee. That's wrong. Design by committee is before...

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MobileLeap

2009-03-06T00:34:35+08:00

So since I complained about the lack of mobile-ready websites out there, it was just a matter of time before I discovered MobileLeap. To understand how terrifically amazingly absolutely fantastically good this service is, first open your mobile phone browser...

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The financial crisis and venture capital

2009-02-27T20:45:00+08:00

A couple of days ago, I was chatting with an ex-entrepreneur who now acts as a consultant to technology start-ups. We were talking about the current financial crisis and its implications on venture capital. His opinion was that VCs now...

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Book review: Freakonomics

2009-02-21T20:41:00+08:00

Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt (Rating: ***1/2) Yes, I finally read this. I thought this book was only so-so. Perhaps all the hype surrounding it raised expectations too much but my problem with this was that it was a little...

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Awww, those poor bankers

2009-02-16T19:30:00+08:00

Ok, so I reused this title. But this time it's another group with a misplaced sense of entitlement. If you haven't been hiding under a rock for the past one and a half years, you will have an inkling of...

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