Having friends is important. If you have friends, that means you are not insufferable. Make sure you meet the friends of your friends. If you can’t stand any of them, then your friend has poor taste and their validation does you no good. Move on. My advice: save energy by [...]
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Update
May 14, 2009 – 10:09 pm
Today, we moved to a new, larger office space. We’ve grown from 10 to 25 in the last three months.
We leased our old space from a company called InnerWorkings. Their CEO was giving a guest a tour of the office; when he came to The Point, he explained what we do. “Oh, [...]
November 15, 2008 – 11:19 pm
A few great quotes from another New Yorker article:
Obama, who is not without an ego, regarded himself as just as gifted as his top strategists in the art and practice of politics. Patrick Gaspard, the campaign’s political director, said that when, in early 2007, he interviewed for a job with Obama and Plouffe, Obama said [...]
There are no Sarah Palins in dance
November 15, 2008 – 9:49 pm
From the New Yorker, Ron Regan addresses comparisons between him and Rahm Emanuel (both former dancers):
I’m a well-known actor – not a big star, but I appear in movies – and you’re talking about someone who was in the drama club in high school.” He argued that dancing and politics are “really two different parts [...]
Thoughts on Yammer
September 12, 2008 – 10:26 am
I was excited to see Yammer launch at TechCrunch50, a business-focused version of Twitter that asks, “What are you working on?” instead of, “What are you doing?” I’ve wanted something like this for awhile. 37 signals did something similar, but it was appended to an existing product (Backpack) that also does a lot [...]
iTunes “Genius” feature misses the mark
September 9, 2008 – 5:58 pm
Apple released a new feature in iTunes 8 called “Genius” – it builds playlists based on what it knows about people who like the same type of music as you do. It also includes a sidebar that recommends songs from the iTunes store.
The feature has a lot of potential, but doesn’t go far enough [...]
Come on, Starbucks – just call them “smoothies!”
August 6, 2008 – 1:18 pm
Starbucks, why must you take every opportunity to fan the flames of our guilt? It’s hard enough to buy a $3 coffee when half the world makes less than that every day. But to add insult to injury, you make us order it with words – tall, grande, venti – that punctuate the burden of [...]
My Prius
July 11, 2008 – 1:16 am
My friend Rob sent me (and some other Prius owners) this:
and I’ve seen all of you do worse…
http://www.hybridcars.com/news/evil-prius-ads.html
I would like to address a common misconception — that the Prius is the final conquest, the proverbial cherry on top of the human quest for ethical perfection. Spotting a chink in imagined armor, people just can’t [...]
Billy Joel’s Second Wind
July 8, 2008 – 2:50 pm
The standard excuse of major news corporations, when accused of featuring trivial headlines, is that they are merely reflecting what people want. They’re businesses, and as such, their survival requires a sensitivity to demand.
I kind of believed that, until I saw this headline this morning:
And then a few hours later, this:
Clearly, this story is [...]
Waterboarding yourself is an inconclusive experiment
July 2, 2008 – 2:49 pm
Christopher Hitchens waterboarded himself and said, “believe me, it’s torture.”
Meaning what? It’s worse than a traffic jam? What does he know about torture that allows him to decide what is and isn’t? If Hitchens is trying to determine whether waterboarding is “torture” (which is a ridiculous debate), he needs to subject himself [...]