One of the videos from Louis Vutton’s tribute to Muhammad Ali. Ali wrote the text before his first fight with Liston – the heavyweight champion of the world who won the championship with a first round knockout. That doesn’t happen very often. His prediction came true and at 22 Muhammad Ali became the youngest… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Inspiration
Do waste many a single moment
Life isn’t short. Life is the longest thing you will ever do. It is okay to work less than eleven hours a day. Promise. I ran my first startup into the ground. While hitting a wall. And bouncing off a speeding train when hitting a cement truck. Why? Because I thought working more meant getting more… Read more »
What Starting feels like
Starting anything is scary. Mindbogglingly scary in fact. But somebody’s got to do it and if a 4th grader girl can lob herself off a big ski jump, you can stare down that text editor until it produces some code, a blogpost, a business plan or whatever. Certainly the best video I’ve seen this month
Selling to girls
This is a story of three guys writing a business plan for a class at college. A business that rakes in 500,000 euro in sales after three years, with 30k of pure profits to boot. It’s not a swing for the fences kind of story, but taking three years to set up three 20-somethings and… Read more »
The one book that gets me offline
There is a stack of books on my desk waiting to be read. They’re not bad books. Some are considered the height of classical literature, some are downright useful. And yet, they linger, waiting for months upon months, some for years. I’ll get to them … eventually. I used to be a voracious reader, going… Read more »
Startup world, Y U SUCK AT MOTIVATE?
The startup world is awash with truly inspirational stories and speeches, arguably the best of which is Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Speech. The world of sports, also, is awash with inspirational stories and speeches. But athletes have something the startup world lacks – motivation. That thing a trainer tells you before a big match to… Read more »
A talk that changes everything
This talk by Bret Victor has changed my entire perspective on programming and how I want to continue working in this field. It starts out a bit slow, but you should watch it. Well worth it, I promise. Bret Victor – Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo. A quick recap of the more salient points… Read more »
Everyone should learn [about] programming
What use have an artist, a baker, a winemaker, a firefighter and a brewer with programming? None. Yet. An article surfaced on HackerNews yesterday arguing that Programming is the new High School Diploma, the main argument being two facts: Computers are everywhere Automation is pushing out middle-tier jobs The basic idea is really simple –… Read more »
I Don’t Know
I. Don’t. Know. Three simple words. Almost impossible to say. As developers, as entrepreneurs, as men we never want to admit we don’t know. If you don’t know, you are weak and an army of angry huns will come to steal your women, your business and your honor. When founders don’t know what the hell they’re… Read more »
We take Carpe Diem too seriously
Yesterday I received the best gift ever – a day completely off. Free. What’s so special about a day off, you might think, I have like two every week! Or if you’re more like me, you’re thinking Psh! Dude, I get a day off almost every month. This was different – I had a day… Read more »