John Perry: Structured Procrastination & Procrastination and Perfectionism Philip Zimbardo prescribes a healthy take on time and The Time Paradox Performable: Which button color converts best? Dan Zambonini: Why are the East of Cities usually Poorer?
Daily Routines edition: “The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it’s a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.” — Haruki Murakami “His writing methods had not changed in years. He would sit and brood in a favourite armchair, draft a paragraph or two in pencil, then move to [...]
Sean Ellis: Key Elements of a Massively Scalable Startup David Greiner: Promoting your product or service with banner ads – is it worth it? Andres Kutt: Learnings from Five Years as a Skype Architect Mozilla Presentation on Space & Narrative: Designing for Social Interaction Steve Blank: You’re Just the Founder
Interesting presentations from HPTS (High Performance Transaction Systems) 2009 (all links pdf) Andreas Bechtolsheim: Technologies for Data- Intensive Computing Ted Dunning: Search in the Cloud Bradley Kuszmaul: A Performance Puzzle: B-Tree Insertions Are Slow on SSDs Steve Mushero: Lessons Learned Dealing with Massive Scale and Slow Networks in China Randy Shoup: Challenges and Lessons from [...]
Marc Andreessen: A Panorama of Venture Capital and Beyond (video) Patrick McKenzie: Introducing Appointment Reminder Sachin Agarwal: Building startups from the heart Steve Blank: Consultants Don’t Pivot, Founders Do Startup Insights from Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak Ben Horowitz: Why Startups Should Train Their People
Steve Huffman on Lessons Learned at Reddit Incenting your customer John Kay: Obliquity Search Engines don’t create Intent, they Harvest It From Zero to a Million Users – Dropbox and Xobni lessons learned
The 221B Baker Street illustration Ben Horowitz: The Scale Anticipation Fallacy Bill Simmons: Kerr finally has Suns in the right place. Money quote: “Absolutely. If we are going to shed our baggage, it has to happen in exactly this way … this ludicrous, preposterous way. And it’s the only way.” Daniel Engber: The Underdog Effect [...]
Lars Leckie: Magic Number for SaaS Companies The rise of content farms: Can technology help make online content pay? Adam Wiggins: Startup Lessons Learned Gabriel Weinberg: Will the real standard terms please stand up? The Search Engine Landscape in 2010: Rand’s Presentation from Web 2.0 Expo