Comments for Thoughtbasket http://thoughtbasket.com A place to hold my thoughts on various topics Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The End of Being Organized by Tracy http://thoughtbasket.com/2013/05/17/the-end-of-being-organized/#comment-1116 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:21:47 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.com/?p=1294#comment-1116 Don’t worry about fame! I think that being as organized as people like us are is a reward in and of itself. My brain just feels better, more peaceful, and I am more able to be productive when I do things the way they should be done. So, whether or not people can now get away with doing very little (which they always found a way to do anyway) and still getting by, they lose in the end. These are the people who will know the answer in class, but not how to arrive at that answer. And really, it’s the process of arriving that is important, not simply knowing the answer. You still are one-up because no matter what apps and computers do, there are still people who are organized and people who are not, and people who are (fill in the blank) and people who are not. Nothing can change that fact.

]]> Comment on Folder People vs. Non-Folder People by The End of Being Organized | Thoughtbasket http://thoughtbasket.com/2011/08/08/folder-people-vs-non-folder-people/#comment-1115 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:57:33 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.com/?p=1019#comment-1115 […] I was an aggressive user of folders and subfolders (sharp-eyed readers know that I have previously commented on folder people vs. non-folder people). Thanks to Desktop, the five minutes I spent working while […]

]]> Comment on Being Successful Doesn’t Make You Right by Being Successful Doesn’t Make You Right (via Thoughtbasket) | chimac.net – Stuff worth knowing about http://thoughtbasket.com/2010/07/20/being-successful-doesn%e2%80%99t-make-you-right/#comment-1110 Mon, 06 May 2013 20:56:14 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.com/?p=673#comment-1110 [...] No, this isn’t some sort of epistemological exploration of what “right” really means, or whether such a thing can exist at all in a post-modern world. Quite the opposite: it is a blog entry on corporate culture and how that culture works, or doesn’t work, at successful companies, in this case Google and Microsoft. Peter Sims wrote a piece about why he thinks Google is potentially past its prime, on the way to becoming the next Microsoft. I don’t … Read More [...]

]]> Comment on Content is King, and Always Will Be by Native Advertising: Creative is King | Thoughtbasket http://thoughtbasket.com/2008/07/18/content-is-king-and-always-will-be/#comment-1108 Mon, 06 May 2013 16:29:06 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.wordpress.com/?p=21#comment-1108 [...] this post. Instead, I want to focus on how the success of native advertising shows that, yet again, content is king. When you read about how and why native advertising is working (like here and here), you’ll see [...]

]]> Comment on Technology, Hubris and Lunch by FayeC http://thoughtbasket.com/2013/04/29/technology-hubris-and-lunch/#comment-1093 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:54:46 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.com/?p=1280#comment-1093 Thoughtbasket – cutting through the bs once again!

]]> Comment on Y Combinator: Living the Bubble Dream by Garry Tan (@garrytan) http://thoughtbasket.com/2013/04/09/y-combinator-living-the-bubble-dream/#comment-1082 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 07:14:53 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.com/?p=1272#comment-1082 This won’t be the first flippant reaction to Y Combinator and it certainly won’t be the last. You know what the armchair guys said about the iPod? It would never sell and that Steve Jobs was a hack. You’re as wrong as those guys.

All startups start in this nascent, somewhat laughable state. But they make money, they grow, and then they aren’t something to laugh at anymore. It’s prescient that you mention that the dot-commers were wrong… because they weren’t. It’s that those ideas are now becoming reality now, only this time with reasonable cap tables, fundamentals to their unit economics, and they actually make money. Color may have smacked of 1999-esque excess — but it rightly died because it didn’t grow and it didn’t make money.

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]]> Comment on Colorful Pool by FayeC http://thoughtbasket.com/2013/03/27/colorful-pool/#comment-1017 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:35:59 +0000 http://thoughtbasket.com/?p=1256#comment-1017 LOVE IT!!!!

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