Ivo Dator

Note: I’m proud to have co-authored this post with Jason Hreha, the founder of Dopamine, a user-experience and behavior design firm. He blogs at persuasive.ly Yin asked not to be identified by her real name. A young addict in her mid-twenties, she lives in Palo Alto and, despite her addiction,

Awesome approach by Warby Parker to help market their brand. Great video by HAIM.

- Notorious BIG

I’m a 90’s kid. 

This set just the bar for all startup company videos. #amazing

Crisp Vancouver morning.

“To know what you want. To understand why you’re doing it. To dedicate every breath in your body to achieve…if you feel you have something to give, if feel that your particular talent is worth developing, is worth caring for, then there is NOTHING you can’t achieve.”

- Kevin Spacey

Deep.

Even so, in the 1990s he hesitated to leave a good job in the world of finance to set up Amazon after a colleague he respected advised him against it. But Mr Bezos applied what he calls a “regret minimisation framework”, imagining whether, as an 80-year-old looking back, he would regret the decision not to strike out on his own. He concluded that he would, and with encouragement from his wife he took the plunge as an entrepreneur. They moved from New York to Seattle and he founded the company, in time-honoured fashion for American technology start-ups, in his garage.

via The Economist

Over the past 10 years, technological advances dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

- Ben Horowitz

This is such a great article. 

Such a brilliant music video

Just stay busy, stay workin
Puff told me like, the key to this joint
The key to staying on top of things
is treat everything like it’s your first project, y’know what I’m sayin?
Like it’s your first day like back when you was an intern
Like, that’s how you try to treat things like, just stay hungry.”

- Notorious BIG 

Celebratory drinks after an intense presentation.

I’m always interested in how successful individuals first started out. In this song Kanye West talks about the stumbling blocks he faced when trying to pursue his dreams. Very inspiring! 

“Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem or use my arrogance as a steam to power my dreams.”

“I ain’t play the hand I was dealt, I changed my cards.” 

Classic.  

i don’t always agree with Peter but he’s spot on about education

A Conversation with Peter Thiel - The American Interest Magazine (via pegobry)

Paul Higgins: This is a big issue for something which is seen as a long term investment. As career changes and job changes have become more frequent the value of the initial piece of paper has reduced. I think that value for fundamental skills education with a bit of paper on the end of it will continue to have value. However the rise in “just in time” skills transfer, the creation of all sorts of new jobs in a rapidly changing world, and multiple sources and channels for education are rapidly devaluing the specific skill qualification.