February 2012
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January 2012
8 posts
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Tonx until February: Free, as in beer.
Dear Internet Friends,
We started Tonx just a few short months ago and the response has been very encouraging. We do one thing, and do it well - which is ship great coffee to your doorstep when you need it.
Right now we want more people to experience our product, plain and simple.
So we’ve decided (temporarily) to allow people to sign up for a free trial of Tonx. If you sign up...
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one bag at a time: Kenya Karatina AA - Tonx →
keatonviolet:
They [Tonx] work hard to back up the claim that they really want you to drink good coffee and it shows. This means You can email them, call them, or send them a letter and they’ll respond. This also means they ship out your coffee within 24 hours of it being roasted and send it priority so it gets to you super fresh. If you haven’t yet left this silly blog to sign up for their...
@nleach: 2011 in Coffee →
nleach:
Coffee of the Year
Looking back over the year, was there a single stand out? You bet!
I’d like to say this was a difficult decision, and while more than a few exceptional coffees hit my cup, none came close to the El Salvador Finca Montery Bambu from Tonx. The Coffee Adventures review of this coffee pretty much sums it up for me:
I enjoyed this coffee more than I can put words...
Watchbrycedotvc:
This presentation from Tom Preston-Werner, founder of GitHub, is a veritable master class on building teams and company culture.
Have a flip through here or click/tap to see the speaker notes which add much more depth to the slides.
Frankly, almost everything that has come out of Powerset and Github on company building/culture is something that frequently send to others and...
December 2011
5 posts
The National Defense Authorization Act is the... →
whatevernevermind:
What’s the line from Batman? The night is always darkest just before the dawn. I like to think that’s true, because times seem awfully dark these days.
Agreed. Very dark.
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November 2011
9 posts
“Overall, I think it’s a good time to have a girl in the 21st century because...”
– Louis C.K.: The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick | Fast Company (via Briana Mowrey)
Browse Anonymously on Your iPad and iPhone With... →
whatevernevermind:
It uses Tor to encrypt Internet traffic and route it through three different servers to ensure data about users cannot be intercepted by third parties. Such data would include browsing history or, more commonly, one’s geographic location.
“If you do go down the VC path, choose wisely. Your investors are one of the most...”
– Veen (via brycedotvc)
And too often “chosen” without leverage, meaningful evaluation or any due diligence.
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I do not care about your funding.
Disclaimer: This is a pet peeve of mine. Please excuse me while I am a dick for a moment.
I don’t understand companies emailing their customers funding announcements. Why do I care about your funding? You closed your series B? Why do I need to know that? What the hell does that mean? I mean, I know what a series B is, but most of your customers don’t. And even though I can evaluate...
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Yelping with Cormac: Starbucks →
yelpingwithcormac:
This here’s a latté.
A what?
A deluxe coffee, Wallace. Four dollars of brown gold.
Wallace leaned down and grabbed the cup from Madison’s hand and took a drink. He spat it out. Goddamn, he said. Tastes like a pregnant mare’s urine.
No it dont. Give it here.
Wallace wiped his face with his arm. Tastes like spent cartridges in a pickle jar.
Come on now. It aint that...
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“hardy worthlessness and worthless hardiness”
– Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
October 2011
3 posts
“Both the UK and the global economy are facing a familiar foe at present: policy...”
– Adam Posen via Krugman
September 2011
2 posts
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Overridden
Me: By default, it's on every page I think but that can be overridden.
Me: It's kinda kludgy.
Nicole: how so?
Me: how can I be overridden?
Nicole: that's deep.
Nicole: I don't know if I can answer that.
Nicole: I mean, that kinda goes to the heart of the idea of self, doesn't it?
August 2011
10 posts
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BRYCE DOT VC: What We Really Mean by Wanting to be... →
brycedotvc:
As I write this, Apple has passed Exxon to become the most valuable company in the world. The contrast of 20th vs. 21st century economies couldn’t be starker. On one hand you have Apple reinventing every industry it touches, with $75 billion dollars of cash in the bank and building a spaceship in Cupertino and on the other you have belching exhaust, depleting resources and...
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Winona and 1NF
Suppose that Winona Ryder is sufficiently impressed by your knowledge to come back to your suite at the Regent Beverly Wilshire. Taking advantage of the in-room Ethernet connection, you’ve left a remote Emacs window up and running on your laptop. Ms. Ryder sees your SQL queries in the source code for your coaching app and shouts out “Hey, these data aren’t even in First Normal...
AFIFW #1
A framework is fucked when:
In order for a developer to find out where to put a model definition file they load the nonexistent class and copy the directory output by the framework’s exception message.
“Let’s take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?
1980: Ronald Reagan runs for...”
– Steve Benen, Washington Monthly (via alcaniglia)
Well that’s something.
(via peterwknox)
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July 2011
9 posts
“Everyone just wants validation, love, security, enjoyment and hopes for a better...”
– … and 28 other wonderful life lessons learned travelling around the world for 8 years straight. (via brycedotvc)
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“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– Brian Eno (via austinkleon)
My nothing times are some of my most productive times.
(via bustr)
June 2011
3 posts
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“Today’s grads enter a cultural climate that preaches the self as the center of a...”
– David Brooks
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Next Chapter - Southland
Because it’s a big-ish announcement, the original content is also posted to my non-tumblr writing repository as well.
This week, in many ways, is an official beginning of the next phase of my life.
This week I’ve announced that I’m leaving Foodzie.
Foodzie has been an education. My experience over the past several years has changed me in ways I couldn’t have predicted. Most of...