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I would use the spare time (10 hours a week you said) to develop a prototype of your application. MVP, etc. Keep your job, and start out small with your side project. Work on it un…

This reinforces Reid Hoffman's maxim that if you're not embarrassed when you launch version 1, you spent too much time on it.

I suspect there are some whopping economies of scale to be had here, though. This was a one-off and prototypes do tend to be expensive. BTW, I'll bet 2/3 the cost was that military…

Indeed. Gerber went even further and says that it may be counterproductive to own a business that matches your technical expertise. That's because of the temptation to jump in and …

And, apparently, videography.

It casts a shadow too :)

My attempt at Dueling Banjos: http://goo.gl/doodle/gsW2

The icon for point #9 is particularly clever.

Can you imagine how cool that would've been if it had contained actual information?!

Although presumably the idea is not to fail.

I don't think the premise is bad, but we're pretty good about separating REAL consequences from contrived ones. Example: Several years ago, I put a $100 bill in five different enve…

I was surprised that Buffett's lukewarm statement warranted such a headline, but reading some of the interviewers questions, my "agendar" went off: Q. Do you see things differently…

Browsing through the first 200 or so user IDs on LinkedIn is an interesting look at Reid Hoffman's geek-Rolodex.

I'm wondering if merely displaying a number is really "social proof" in the Cialdinian sense. Possibly at one time, but now I think the "proof" part of social proof must be demonst…

If you've missed these, here are a few on Netflix Streaming that I really enjoyed: Restrepo, Brother's Keeper, all the "Up" (7 Up, 35 Up, etc.) documentaries, Harlan County USA.

What a small world. My wife was project manager on this keyboard at IBM/Lexmark in Lexington, Ky. I just showed her the article and she said she must have thrown away over 100 prot…

Don't want to be a stats-nazi, but I wonder if 66 is an adequate sample size when respondants are self-selected (as opposed to random). (66 respondants can be deduced by finding th…