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Efficient Markets: Tools which extract value from aggregate leisure

Are Crowd Farmed Volunteers Efficient?

After reading a detailed background article on Caterina Fake and Hunch (the company she’s helping Chris Dixon build) early this AM, I wondered at the efficiency of “volunteer labor”. Here’s the quote that caused…

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Founders are Stage Magicians

Cascading Effects of Evoking Emotional Response

As a first time founder with an engineering background, preoccuppation with building the sonic screwdriver of social information tools has been my primary concern. One thing I haven’t spent much time worrying about is…

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Open the Factory Doors, Let in the Breeze and Sunshine

Unravelling

What we wrap most tightly, gains the greatest benefit by being let go.

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The Potential of the Net is far more than today’s Colliseum

The Hook.

It just cost you two seconds to click through and the page to render. A majority of browsers will click back or kill the tab, leaving 15% of social web referrals still reading. Each and every character and…

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Security is not the product of rule based systems, but rooted in banishing ignorance

Anxious Dreams

A merchant class manor lord had taken over my parents home and I am no longer welcome. I flee to an old neighbors back yard and a strange truck comes down the driveway, another safe

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Why Investing Resources in Web Apps is Good Business

Long before starting a company I firmly believed only field veterans or geniuses were capable of creating compelling products, and the even more impressive feat, breathing life into new markets. After working with and learning the fundamentals of web application…

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Computation: How deep does the rabbit hole go?

Wikipedia, a Trap for the Curious Mind

I lost track of a couple of hours yesterday going down Wikipedia’s bunny trail.

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Great software is measured by how little it constrains human imagination

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Deciphering Reactions to a Change of Plans

While exploring the relation between change and response, I struggled with how best to frame such a general idea. My thoughts gravitated to the floor decision making framework of psychology, and the key observable of personality.

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King for a Day or Sustainable Marketing

Do writers recognize when their work is going to catch on like wild fire? The recent Old Spice viral video series has caused a wave of gut busting chaos induced hilarity.The strangest realization for me is that I was…

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