January 2012
17 posts
“We make a fine bourbon, at a profit if we can, at a loss if we must, but always...”
– “Pappy” Van Winkle
Blue-screen blues, cloud harmony
Laptop is giving us the blue-screen of death, on repeat. Picked up iPad….
Photos on flickr.
Diary on tublr (andyswan.com)
Thoughts on twitter
Songs on ipods, phones, etc
Docs on google
Mail on gmail
Bookmarks in cloud
Frustration evaporates.
Apple wins.
Google wins.
Amazon wins.
We win.
Having a core
Over the last several years, I’ve watched a lot of smart entrepreneurs allow themselves, and their businesses, to become pinballs.
They take the “fail fast” mantra of iterative development and pervert it into a goal to be achieved. They “pivot” wildly, randomly and often. From a 3rd party point of view, it is clear they have no clue what direction they really want...
“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
– Willie Nelson
First life-changing product find of 2012
I like to swim. Ski. Wakeboard. Snowboard. Heck…I sometimes prefer running in the rain to running when it’s dry. Plus, I sweat.
So, finding a waterproof ipod was pretty sweet. I’ve swam with it attached to my goggles for about 10 hours so far, which is a decent test of actual underwater conditions.
It works awesome. Check it out.
I wonder if Waterfi is working on a...
“I don’t know how good of a shot God is, but it’s damn hard to hit a...”
– 80 year old man at my gym, as he prepared for his 38th annual 5k/10k/10m “triple crown” 