trying to make sense out of stuff
Bitcoin, in that sense, is anti democratic. It’s based on mistrust rather than trust, it refuses to take any responsibility onto itself – indeed, it doesn’t even have a self to take responsibility onto. It’s nihilistic, and an attractive alternative only to things which are downright bad.
— The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency — Money & Banking — Medium
Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
VCs have control when things don’t work. Entrepreneurs have control when they do.
— An important and true insight from Fred Wilson (A VC: Entrepreneurs Have Control When Things Work, VCs Have Control When They Don’t).
The attributes that make great entrepreneurs are common in certain manias, though in milder forms and harnessed in ways that are hugely productive. Instead of recklessness, the entrepreneur loves risk. Instead of delusions, the entrepreneur imagines a product that sounds so compelling that it inspires people to bet their careers, or a lot of money, on something that doesn’t exist and may never sell.
— Just Manic Enough - Seeking Perfect Entrepreneurs - NYTimes.com
The very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification.
— Scary, scary read: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking.
“Russian data-visualisation designer Ruslan Enikeev has mapped websites according to levels of activity and the other sites visited by their users. The ‘Internet Map’ shows each website as a circle, sized according to levels of web traffic. Websites’s positioning is based on the different sites their visitors switch to and from. A circle’s colour indicates the country to which it relates.” - Explore the map over at the Guardian.
I am overly ambitious, because I realize it can be done. I don’t want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I’m 70.
Today, Sandbox released the “Playbook” - a collection of rules, recommendations and insights for an entrepreneurial life created by 200+ Sandboxers during our Global Summit earlier this year at Sandbox. (The page above didn’t make it into the final book, but is still one of my favorites.) You can read and download the book for free here, or browse through it directly here:
