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My protocol is: 1) clear your mind 2) prime your mind 3) flow your truth 1. Clear your mind Spend 30 minutes meditating, preferably first thing when you wake up. Pick something tha…

And then you realize the dust is made of stars...

I like the simple/clean UI

If you have a green card you can avoid this by signing up for Global Entry[1]. Then you can avoid customs lines and just swipe your card at the kiosk - enter the country without ev…

I love the concept of living in the future. I recently read the biography of Dan Raymer, a well-known aerospace designer, which was appropriately titled 'Living in the Future'[1]. …

You seem to have the premise that materialism is incontrovertibly bad?

In this video Elon states he came up with his idea for an electric plane at Burning Man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-s_3b5fRd8#t=20m19s

They are probably 'smoke testing' whether it's worthwhile to spend the effort making a video, based on the percentage of people that try to play it.

Fashion may be one of the last industries you'd think of disrupting with technology, but we believe we're onto something. We are looking to add another software engineer to our sma…

Like any sector that hasn't been totally disrupted yet, it's inevitable that technology will change the game. But subject matter expertise and relationships do matter a lot (especi…

Thanks pg & jessica for getting me out to NY for YCNYC. It's been onwards and upwards since then :)

Garry and Aaron are both awesome, excellent move. Congrats guys.

I think you're generally right. If you can dominate a market in Australia you may end up being just as good a business as if you are one of ten players in the US market. Spreets wa…

It's a pretty good model if your strength is in execution (i.e. you have a good team and can launch and grow something quickly). If you are more passionate about innovation and com…

The product was already live in Sydney before they raised money. They quickly expanded to other cities after raising.

Generally not in either party's interest to leak (unless it's a negotiation tactic). But unfortunately when you are closing a sale there are a bunch of people you have to talk to (…

Maybe if she was pointing out facts, but this strikes me as an opinion piece and I have a hard time reading this particular opinion unless the author is actually practicing what sh…

I find it really difficult to read such an argument (whether I agree with it or not), if it doesn't come from someone who is actually out there trying to solve these problems himse…

Good point, I'll add hackers and founders to the list. Feel free to copy/paste my post into a wiki somewhere