Month: June 2009

foursquare:

Oh snap!  We’re the “most exciting take on social networking in years!”

(from “Web Designer” magazine in the UK – Issue 158)

(and thx to Josh Newman / @hellonewman for fwd’ing)

Even more important are shared values and vision. Milton Pappas, the man who taught me more about venture capital than anyone else also taught me a lot about marriage. When we got married, I was working for Milton. When our first child, Jessica, was born, he told me, “make one night a week date night. do it every week without fail. and when you are alone, don’t talk about the daily grind, talk about your hopes and dreams, what you want to do together and what you will do together”. That was very sage advice. I must admit that I don’t practice it enough, but I do practice it (like many things in my life).

Building Successful Long Term Relationships

smokeandacoke:

Oh Anna. Don’t look at me like that.

Tracking your mpg since the car was last turned on, it begins to fill from the left once your mpg exceeds 25. With this display you can see from moment to moment just how your actions contribute to gas mileage, and before you know it (if you’re like me), you’re engaged in trying to inch it up ever further. You coast just a bit more, you moderate your speed, you avoid jackrabbit starts. And, if you’ve really done well, by the time you turn the car off you may have topped 35 mpg. What does the car do then? It flashes, in all caps, “EXCELLENT!” I half-expected it to ask me to enter my initials for the high score list.

Or, “How to turn driving a Toyota Prius into a video game”

Terra Nova: On Expertise

(btw, found this while reviewing someone’s notes from the State of Play conf I spoke at last week)

(via dpstyles)