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RoadsAfar
http://roadsafar.com/blog
Discussing building great sites and starting great companies around great communities.
- Added on: May 29th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jess Martin
- Listed in: Entrepreneurship Technology
- Tags: design Web 2.0 ruby on rails development startups maker
Recent Posts
Radiohead at All Points West 2008
I took a bunch of pictures at the Radiohead concert at the All Points West Music Festival 2008. These were all taken with a Canon 20D and a 50mm f1.8 fixed prime lens. The whole photo album is available here, but here are some of my favorites:...
Startup Weekend San Antonio Recap
It’s Monday morning and the startup weekend buzz is starting to wear off. I actually got more than three hours of sleep and a home cooked meal. It’s really amazing to check out idre.am and see what we were able to build in only a weekend...
Dryad: Intuitively Create Beautiful Trees
Dryad is a new tool from the Stanford Virtual Worlds group for creating trees intuitively. The demo is very polished (particularly for something worked on by graduate students) and the idea is promising in its application to other domains. Vladlen...
Principles for Making New Things
“…find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.” -PG...
Reading Founders at Work: Max Levchin
I picked up Jessica Livingston’s book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days the other day and started reading through it for inspiration. I had always noticed Jessica’s name at the bottom of Paul Graham’s essay...
Henri-Frédéric Amiel on The Unexamined Life
An extension of the well-known quote “the unexamined life is not worth living”: The man who has no refuge in himself, who lives, so to speak, in his front rooms, in the outer whirlwind of things and opinions, is not properly a personality...
