SKOTcarruth is not a philosopher

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Mon Nov 23

I can't decide which is greater:

I very often feel this way… I think she put it very eloquently.

How loath I am to make value judgments

How happy I am not to make value judgments

Part of it is that I don’t trust myself enough to make declaratives. The other part is that I love floating around in the liquid space between solid statements. Ideas and thoughts, to me, are so much more valuable than opinions.

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Tue Nov 17

I think I understand… don’t tell Michelle.

mich3lle:

Men won’t understand the beauty of this shoe. The truth is, if this shoe was a man… I would fuck him a lot.

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Sun Oct 25

I don’t want this for my birthday, but I do like the message.

fuckyeahtypography:

Oh, I want one of these please! Birthday present, anyone?

Anyone?

(via presidents)

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Fri Oct 23

how to measure love

how many days can you go before you need to see a person? if it is less than 3, watch out! you may be in love.

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Tue Sep 15

“ What’s perhaps even more amazing about this opportunity is that we made it to this point just three years after the company started: one year to build, and two years in operation. I doubt this could have happened anywhere but Silicon Valley. Mint was built in the Silicon Valley way. It started in my apartment, with Matt Snider and Poornima Vijayashanker. We interviewed the first real “professional,” our VP of Engineering, David Michaels in our kitchen. Our technology was all open source, and essentially all free: MySQL at the bottom, Hibernate to avoid the need to hire a DBA, Tomcat on Apache, Yahoo’s YUI served as the base for our AJAXy goodness. We didn’t have money for a lawyer, but no fewer than three offered to help us incorporate and accrue $25k in legal fees for a little bit of the company. We shared office space in a type of incubator, renting by the cube to avoid a long-term lease. We didn’t have money for advertising, so we started a blog. We didn’t have money for writers, so most of our original blog content then was guest posts from other personal finance blogs, plus a couple of columns on people’s worst financial disasters. To build demand, we started asking for email addresses for our alpha 9 months in advance of launch. Then when we had too many people sign up, we asked people to put a little badge that said “I want Mint” on their blogs to get priority access. We got free advertising and 600 link backs which raised our SEO juice.

Mint.com CEO Aaron Patzer. Smart. They just sold for $170 million. (via kevintwohy)

Let this be a lesson to the clients that insist on paying us too much. I try to tell them: the best businesses grow from a simple concept, executed fanatically but not hastily, and grown organically. Mint is a prime example.

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Tue Sep 8

Slowing down...

I’ve been preoccupied with work for the last month, but September should be a little slower. I’m looking forward to writing more. TTYS tumblr.

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king4asummer:

onlymichelle:

Shit’s been rocky. This is a gif showing a physical bar graph of my life lately.

No, this is a gif showing your boobs. There, I said it.

Hahaha I thought the same thing, but I wasn’t gonna say it. Thanks king.

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Wed Aug 19

the fundamental blogging paradox

Or, why we need strangers to read our blogs.

So first you get a blog to write about what’s going on in your life and how it makes you feel. Then you need people to read it, so you get your friends to follow you. Next you sit down to write, and realize that your friends are what’s going on in your life and you just want to bitch about them. But you can’t. Because they are the only ones reading.

So you post a funny YouTube video instead.

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that’s what I’m talking about. This is an act of philosophy.

nataliefoundit:

streetsigns project.

from rofreg

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WSJ homepage

I get the paper version of the Wall Street Journal. This morning, I referred to the front page as the “homepage.” Sign of the times?