Top Dives with Tanya Streeter
Pretty diving scenes, and the monofin is cool.
“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what IS it seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you, too!” — Grandpa Simpson
I make a brief appearance:
Ephemerisle: We’re on a Floaty Thing, Motherfuckers from Dav Yaginuma on Vimeo
The Invention of Lying
05-Oct-09
Oooh, I want to see this…
Via kalzumeus
For three years now I’ve been running a small software business in my spare time. It has been a very educational experience, especially in showing me that many things we think we know about software, programming, business, and the like are wrong. This is a bit of a shock, especially for well-worn chestnuts which have intuitive appeal, which we have come to invest with moral significance, and (most importantly, because we all think we’re smart) we’ve believe so self-evidently true as to make investigation a waste of time.
For example: I have come to the conclusion, over the last three years, that working hard is overrated. This is an idea I have been kicking around for a while, but it was thrown into sharp relief by a blog post entitled The Only Alternative Is To Work Harder, by a gentleman named Paras Chapra over at Wingify. Paras and I have corresponded over email a few times, so I say as one analytics junkie to another: the notion that working longer hours is correlated to better business results is a pernicious social pathology.
Thought dump following Ephemerisle ’09
05-Oct-09
I’m exhausted, but I wanted to get some thoughts down before I forget. Don’t expect much coherence.
Seasteading ’09 – dinner cruise
01-Oct-09
I didn’t have much time to take pictures during the conference itself, as I was busy MC’ing, but I took some at the open board meeting, and on the dinner cruise.
Lexi, me, and Gayle on the SS. California Hornblower
