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Comment on Free Burning Man ticket – gone! by Cabe Franklin

Cabe Franklin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:43:15 +0000

Excellent idea, wonderful choices – I like the bent of people going to give rather than going to build something they think is going to dazzle people. (I’m all for the people who are trying to dazzle, but if they don’t have a ticket by mid-July their execution skills may be a bit suspect). Hope to catch you out in the desert sometime!

Comment on Free Burning Man ticket – gone! by Serine Goodmond

Serine Goodmond — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:51:28 +0000

I love this! All of it! The idea of gifting the tickets! The stories! The winners! The love!!! Things like this make me happy to be apart of such a wide community of like-minded individuals! I won’t be attending this year but will be there in spirit! See you all in 2012!

Comment on Fail early, fail often, and learn from your mistakes by Moses

Moses — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:31:08 +0000

i agree about Africans solving Africa problems…..but what really are the African problems? lets see Poverty . why because people live on less than a dollar a day…but wait a sec i thought money was a means of exchange. is money a commodity? if you are stuck on a desert island with a billion dollars will you be rich? Maybe people need to know that infact they are rich….they have all the resources they need . they need to take pride in what they are and where they are. They need to know they have all infinite number of choices…

giving Aid to people is like giving meat or even more wierd giving cooked meat to a lion. in case of meat the lion will never learn to hunt and in case of cooked meat the lion’s stomach will never develop enzymes to digest raw meat in the stomach…….it all goes back to the butterfly effect.. ..sometimes seemingly good acts can have unintended side effects.

Most problems begin in peoples minds.and so the solutions mst be targeted to people’s minds. There are serious thinking problems in Africa. with religion telling people to look to God as the answer to their problem not themselves…..looking at everything western as “higher”…these are serious problems….maybe philosophy needs to be taught in schools

Ps.. are people poor because they are religious(read superstitious) or they are religious because they are poor?

Comment on Unintended consequences: Worries about the Senate jobs bill by Holly Valenti

Holly Valenti — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:46:41 +0000

I would very much like you to run the USA, if interested. Please.

Comment on Apple hot or not? by glen

glen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:15:02 +0000

Yep– And they in fact should protect their assets. My point was a whole series of different things going on which alienate developers, community, customers, and all. This stuff always happens in companies but the last few months at Apple have seen their ecosystems close, more and more.

Comment on Apple hot or not? by tms ruge

tms ruge — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:11:56 +0000

Every company goes through uncomfortable growing pains. See Microsoft, and even Google now… They are never going to be 100% right. Jobs or not, it is just another tech company. And to boot, every tech company has used its cash horde to sue their way up the ladder. Sony, Samsung, et al.

It’s just part of the biz!

Comment on Relentless undefeatist by …the random musings of an unconventional MBA. » Blog Archive » Fail early, fail often, and learn from your mistakes

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Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:44:25 +0000

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Comment on Relentless undefeatist by glen

glen — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:27:53 +0000

Yes, KJ, I think you’re right. I’ll go back and make an edit– I think the specific reference wasn’t right, but the general point is the same.