posted on 02.14.12
“For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way.”

The Management Team - Guest Post from Joel Spolsky (A VC)

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posted on 10.26.11

“Have any of you actually seen a chicken?”

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posted on 10.19.11

Happy Alaska Day!

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posted on 09.27.11

Ice cream.

thedailywhat:

Bad Lip Reading of the Day: Bad Lip Reading somehow manages to make GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry sound halfway coherent.

(Compare with original.)

[thd.]

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WANT.
thedailywhat:
“Although I cannot see your face / As you flip these poems awhile / Somewhere from some far-off place / I hear you laughing—and I smile.”
[nprfreshair.]
posted on 09.20.11

WANT.

thedailywhat:

“Although I cannot see your face / As you flip these poems awhile / Somewhere from some far-off place / I hear you laughing—and I smile.”

[nprfreshair.]

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posted on 09.06.11

Brother: “Don’t the Irish have a thing with snakes? A whacking day or something?”

Me: “Nope… and I’m pretty sure you’re confusing that with a Simpsons episode.”

I think my job here is done.

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posted on 09.04.11

Someone told me today that if I have access to a pool, I should jump on/in it.

Naturally, the comment lead me down a wormhole of YouTube videos, and this was the result.

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You should really Google it when you get home.
benjaminapple:

See emails #1, #2, and #3.
posted on 08.28.11

You should really Google it when you get home.

benjaminapple:

See emails #1, #2, and #3.

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posted on 08.27.11

“Bill! Jo! It’s coming! It’s headed. Right. For us!”

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posted on 08.25.11

I may or may not know what this feels like…

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posted on 08.14.11

This is why Harrison Ford will always remain my hero…

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posted on 08.06.11

Because the night time… is the right time…

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posted on 07.27.11
“As I’ve pointed out (as have others), you can flee Facebook for the respect-your-privacy confines of Google+, until you realize: this is the company that drives a car down your street to take pictures of your house.”

— Mark Hurst, Why Google+ Will Succeed Wildly. At First.

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posted on 05.10.11

“Once I saw my mom kill a deer with her heart.”

This is what customer service means to me.

(Thanks, Jess!)

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