Fog of World is a toy. A wonderful magnificent toy I wouldn’t let you pry from my cold dead fingers! And I wish it came out six months ago, not last week. What is it? Oh it’s just an awesome visualisation of where you’ve been in your life and how much of the world you’ve explored… Read more »
Posts Tagged: London
Elementary.
Being the paragon of originality, american television creators are doing yet another remake of an amazing BBC series. This time they’re taking a shot at Sherlock. Unlike their usual efforts, however, they didn’t mess this one up. I watched the season premier of Elementary this morning and I have to say it’s good. Very good! While… Read more »
Weather – the best thing about Silicon Valley
When somebody asks “So what’s The Valley like? Learned anything good?” I always respond with “Yeah, the weather was awesome!” This disappoints people. They expect something … profound … something about startups, or products, or building companies. Anything but the weather. But I really think the weather is a significant competitive advantage Silicon Valley‘s got beyond others…. Read more »
Can you pay one compliment to one stranger every day?
The challenge: Pay one compliment to one complete stranger every day. The experiment: See what happens. Every day you will hear someone exclaim: “Dear fuck, why do people have to be so stupid!? Fuck!” When people use twitter to vent, there are a lot of these. And it’s getting somewhat annoying, wherefore all the negativity guys? I wanted to… Read more »
Inside a Google onsite interview
Last Friday I found myself in Google’s London HQ, talking about cool problems with a bunch of engineers. The so called “onsite interviews”. The saga started a few months ago with two phone interviews. Then Google sent me a “What to know in onsite interviews” email. And here I was, completely unprepared, having the time… Read more »
Going from Slovenia to Palo Alto … what culture shock?
The drink/coffee meetings resulting from my post about coming to Palo Alto have started happening. It’s great fun meeting new people and getting a feel for the local community and entrepreneurial scene. Certainly a great place to be for meeting cool people and hackers. Invariably, though, the conversation comes up to a point where they… Read more »
Doing a startup taught me the value of staying in school
This post has been brewing for the past few months. I decided to finally write it to psyche myself up for the onslaught of the exam season starting next week. A little background; a few months ago I crashed and burned doing a big swing for the fences, a startup I had been working on… Read more »
Today was the worst day I’ve ever had
Image by Still Burning via Flickr Ok so today has probably been one of the crappiest days in a very very long time. Nothing spectacular happened, just a bunch of small very very irritating and annoying things, just enough to ruin your mood for a whole week. Which is awesome since it’s Monday. Even better,… Read more »
Of London, Murphy and Seedcamp
Image via Wikipedia Last week’s trip to London was governed by the laws of Murphy, or Sod as Londoners would call ‘im. It was a fun and interesting trip, don’t get me wrong, and I still love London almost as much as I did after my last trip there two years ago. It’s just that… Read more »