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I posted to twitter.com
sending some emails to new people I recently met and thinking to start writing a cover letter for an awesome opportunity
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1491952307
April 10 2009, 1:00pm | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
I don't really like weekends. I feel like lonely.
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1491701687
April 10 2009, 12:22pm | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
is there anyone has Premium Spotify account???
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1486758129
April 9 2009, 6:05pm | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
A £500 prize & the inaugural RotD Innovators Award for the best "Spotify App" http://bit.ly/R9DfB
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1486753956
April 9 2009, 6:04pm | Comments »
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I posted to google.com
Ev’s Advice For Startups: “Do Something Awesome”
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rMxWRanCDp4/
Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is on the Web video show Tekzilla in an interview conducted by Veronica Belmont on-stage last week at the Web 2.0 Expo. It was the same day that Biz Stone was in New York taping the Colbert Report. The best part of the interview is when Ev starts answering questions from the audience submitted via Twitter, which is where the clip starts above (you can watch the entire segment here).
The first question is what advice would he give to someone trying to build their own startup. His answer:
The core thing would be just do something awesome. Try not to get caught up in the echo chamber. That is probably the toughest thing when you are trying to break out and do something original.
A lot of things are evolutionary, and it is easy to get caught up on what the geek subculture thinks. There’s lots of valuable businesses that can be built there, but I think that is where a lot of people tend to spin their wheels, and I’ve been caught up there before. When I’ve had more successful things, I’ve thought, “Back to basics. What do I want? What do I want to see in the world?” And create that.
He is also asked what he thinks about Facebook’s Twitter-like redesign. “Did they redesign?” he jokes. Then he admits he is impressed and hints that some of the things Facebook did is on Twitter’s own design roadmap. (Maybe Facebook got some ideas from their acquisition discussions with Twitter which fell apart). One thing that Twitter plans to do better is make it easier to share videos and photos, perhaps with inline viewing. Now, that would be awesome. Williams says:
Yeah, I think we should support images and video better than we do today, it does not mean we should host them, maybe viewing inline. I don’t want to get into competition with Youtube. Twitter is lubricant for Web content.
And asked about a business model, he says Twitter will be experimenting with different approaches, but that for now it is still a “secondary” concern to building out the service. One thing Twitter won’t do: allow people to go beyond 140 characters.
Crunch Network: CrunchBoard because it’s time for you to find a new Job2.0
April 9 2009, 4:42pm | Comments »
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I posted to google.com
the survival dance and the sacred dance
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/004912.html
A friend just emailed me this excerpt from "Soul Dance", by Bill Plotkin. I liked it so much, I thought I'd share it with y'all. It certainly resonates with my current day job. Brilliant.
The Survival Dance and The Sacred Dance
Harley Swift Deer, a Native American teacher, says that each of us has a survival dance and a sacred dance, but the survival dance must come first. Our survival dance, a foundational component of self-reliance, is what we do for a living—our way of supporting ourselves physically and economically. For most people, this means a paid job. For members of a religious community like a monastery, it means social or spiritual labors that contribute to the community’s well-being. For others, it means creating a home and raising children, finding a patron for one’s art, or living as a hunter or gatherer. Everybody has to have a survival dance. Finding and creating one is our first task upon leaving our parents’ or guardians’ home.
Once you have your survival dance established, you can wander, inwardly and outwardly, searching for clues to your sacred dance, the work you were born to do. This work may have no relation to your job. Your sacred dance sparks your greatest fulfillment and extends your truest service to others. You know you’ve found it when there’s little else you’d rather be doing. Getting paid for it is superfluous. You would gladly pay others, if necessary, for the opportunity.
Hence, the importance of self-reliance, not merely the economic kind implied by a survival dance but also of the social, psychological, and spiritual kind. To find your sacred dance, after all, you will need to take significant risks. You might need to move against the grain of your family and friends. By honing psychological self-reliance, you will find it easier to keep focused on your goals in the face of resistance or incomprehension, initial failure or setbacks, or economic or organizational obstacles. And spiritual self-reliance will maintain your connection with the deepest truths and what you’ve learned about how the world works.
Swift Deer says that once you discover your sacred dance and learn effective ways of embodying it, the world will support you in doing just that.
What your soul wants is what the world also wants (and needs). Your human community will say yes to your soul work and will, in effect, pay you to do it. Gradually, your sacred dance becomes what you do and your former survival dance is no longer need. Now you have only one dance as the world supports you to do what is most fulfilling for you. How do you get there? The first step is creating a foundation of self-reliance: a survival dance of integrity that allows you to be in the world in a good way—a way that is psychologically sustaining, economically adequate, socially responsible, and environmentally sound. Cultivating right livelihood, as the Buddhist call it, is essential training and foundation for your soul work; it’s not a step that can be skipped.[Bonus Link:] "The Sex & Cash Theory", gapingvoid, 2004.
April 9 2009, 2:12pm | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
Stanford iPhone Application Development course videos are now available on iTunes http://bit.ly/8O15k
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1478952384
April 8 2009, 3:29pm | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
LOL @ SpotiBay http://spotibay.org/
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1476236791
April 8 2009, 7:43am | Comments »
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I posted to twitter.com
Legacy Locker is now available "Secure way to Pass your online accounts to your loved ones" http://www.legacylocker.com
http://twitter.com/Sharj/statuses/1471819185
April 7 2009, 3:21pm | Comments »