What are you? What do you mean, what am I? You are beer. And this bottle, is your company. You think, you’ll get into that glass. You’ll have fun. Isn’t it? But look at this [trying to pour the capped bottle in the glass]. Can you see?…
A tweet this morning pointed to an article titled “Stop talking about your brilliant startup idea!“, in which a fellow Melbournian writes (in summary): Nobody cares about your idea. Stop talking to your friends about your ideas. Stop talking to customers about your ideas. Stop telling me your ideas. As…
When 1 in 3 [http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/551998] humans are affected by a disease, it needs attention and help from all corners. There are many types of cancers, so it’s hard to say if we’ll ever be able to completely cure cancer. But prevention, early detection…
Ever insightful, Paul Graham, recently wrote about Schlep Blindness [http://paulgraham.com/schlep.html], a phenomenon related to overlooking hard and unpleasant problems: > Why work on problems few care much about and no one will pay for, when you could fix one of the most important components of the…
Over the past few decades, Computer programming has ignited gallons of technological innovation, disrupting one industry after the other. For as long, programming has been a skilled task, a niche profession, art of sorts [https://www.nilkanth.com/2010/03/22/why-writing-software-is-like-engineering/] too. It has also made good programmers [https:…
Compulsive, disillusioned, aloof at times, hooked on to new ideas [https://www.nilkanth.com/2009/07/09/selling-fake-wishbones/], craving for the next shot. In the dark depths of “The Valley”, they sniff on domain names. Despite suffering from a distortion in perceptions of time and space, there’s nothing quite…
[http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0712/y_walker08.html] > Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just…
In between high school and university, I sold my first commercial software, a billing application I wrote back then in Pascal for a banquet organizer in the neighbourhood. Those were probably the most satisfying $10 I had earned. It taught the programmer in me some simple yet invaluable lessons in…