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October 30, 2010
The Case For Nothing
What's the most natural and logical reaction of individuals when organizations do stupid things? --- Nothing.
October 27, 2010
The Hell with Happiness
What's bugging me is the increasing number of people who seem to chase happiness just for the purpose of being happy. And that's crap.
October 24, 2010
What's a Startup, Anyway?
Over the past couple of years I have dramatically changed the way I look at startups. It used to be, when I thought of the word "startup", I thought of a couple guys and a dog in a garage making...
October 18, 2010
Programming is for Stupid People
That seemed to pacify him, and it also hit me as accidentally touching on a really deep truth: Programming is for stupid people.
October 13, 2010
Angry Yet?
I both love and hate this time of year in America. I love it because Americans, unlike people in many other places, are passionate about their right to vote. Even folks who haven't voted in decades will, if asked, explain...
October 8, 2010
Towards Ethical Hacking
Over the past few years, Paul Graham, Eliezer Yudkowsky, a few other writers and myself have pushed the idea that while technology is a great and wondrous thing, it also has some severe side-effects that we are not considering. Many...
October 5, 2010
The Great HackerNews Book-a-thon
At some point, yes, your hobby can become a business. But a cool idea, even a cool idea with 15,000 people who are visiting, isn't enough. A real startup is a lot more than that.
October 3, 2010
Secret Hacker Bookshelf
t's a common pattern. On the forum I visit, HackerNews, every few weeks somebody asks the same question -- what are the best programming books? What are the best startup books? What are the best books on marketing? There are a lot of people asking, and the same questions are asked quite frequently
October 1, 2010
How to make a million dollars blogging
Have I made a million dollars