The Trouble with the World

How true!

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

--Bertrand Russell

Respect Life? Do a Startup!

Paul Graham has an interesting new essay out which talks about "The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn".

A summary:

• Release early.
  
• Keep pumping out features.
  
• Make users happy.
  
• Fear the right things.
  
• Commitment Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
  
• There is always room (for one more startup?)
  
• Don't Get Your Hopes Up.
  
• Speed, not Money
  

But for me the most intriguing part is the last couple of paragraphs in the "Speed, not Money" section:

We take it for granted most of the time, but human life is fairly miraculous. It is also palpably short. You're given this marvellous thing, and then poof, it's taken away. You can see why people invent gods to explain it. But even to people who don't believe in gods, life commands respect. There are times in most of our lives when the days go by in a blur, and almost everyone has a sense, when this happens, of wasting something precious. As Ben Franklin said, if you love life, don't waste time, because time is what life is made of.

Right On!

Colbert = Cojones!

I don't care what the "media" says. This needed to be said and Colbert said it! Sort it out.

It was sad and funny and ballsy all at the same time. Someone had to say it and its sad that its the fake journalist who had to do it. Not the lapdogs who stayed obedient throughout the act.
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The silence of the so trumpeted "Liberal Leftwing Media" is deafening! My guess is they're all stunned! But this will reverberate throughout history. This was a seminal moment as far as I am concerned!

So, good on Colbert for speaking truth to power and it took major cojones to say what he said. So it wasn't funny at times. Is the situation around all of us funny anymore?

Its not funny anymore!